Antique quilts -- do you collect?
01-31-2011, 08:10 AM
#81
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ME ME ME. I wish you had "bought up" a few and offered them on here. Should that happen ever again, please go get your checkbook...especially if they're in the "cheapie" range. I would love to run up on a few of those. I can't help it, I just love the old ones!
01-31-2011, 08:40 AM
#82
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I buy vintage or antique tops, but after getting burned a couple of times, I'm kind of persnickety, now. ;)
I love quilting someone else's UFO from who-knows-how-many years ago. I wonder about her - why she didn't finish it, why this fabric was in her scrap basket, did it come out as pretty as she wanted it to?
One of the smallish quilts I got in a batch is a Jacob's ladder bar - it's got a crazy mix of fabrics in it and even the patches were pieced in places - this lady used every teeny, tiny, little bit.
I quilted it up and gave it to my father in law for Christmas for a nap quilt. He loves it as much as I do and says he "wouldn't take for it," which is a charming Southern way of saying that he wouldn't sell it for anything. Very sweet thing to keep in my heart. He's such a good Pa.
I love quilting someone else's UFO from who-knows-how-many years ago. I wonder about her - why she didn't finish it, why this fabric was in her scrap basket, did it come out as pretty as she wanted it to?
One of the smallish quilts I got in a batch is a Jacob's ladder bar - it's got a crazy mix of fabrics in it and even the patches were pieced in places - this lady used every teeny, tiny, little bit.
I quilted it up and gave it to my father in law for Christmas for a nap quilt. He loves it as much as I do and says he "wouldn't take for it," which is a charming Southern way of saying that he wouldn't sell it for anything. Very sweet thing to keep in my heart. He's such a good Pa.
Finished scrap Jacob's Ladder Bar quilt
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01-31-2011, 08:45 AM
#83
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Location: Keene, New Hampshire
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I bought an antique 9-patch top years ago.
I've been quilting it on and off using a large pieced back of repro fabrics
I know it diminishes the value but I didn't buy it for re-sale; I bought it to finish this long-gone quilter's work.
I've been quilting it on and off using a large pieced back of repro fabrics
I know it diminishes the value but I didn't buy it for re-sale; I bought it to finish this long-gone quilter's work.
01-31-2011, 09:35 AM
#90
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Originally Posted by IrelandDragonQuilting
Well I wonder if she had them still. Here in Wyoming I do not get to run across to many quilts at garage sales. Patterns and books, yeppers but no quilts. I hope she got them and post pics!
(There WAS another quilter there when I was, someone the seller knew, who was taking at least some of them to a good home.)
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