Wanting to reproduce a Cherry Quilt made by Great Grandmother

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04-29-2022, 01:45 PM

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cashs_mom

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I was guessing the opposite from cashs mom: that it was made using a kit. A number of kits were available during that time, many with appliqué and many with the scalloped edge that the OP remembers. The problem is that there may be no record of many of those kits. When scholars started looking at quilt designs, kits were seen as ubiquitous and put down as not requiring creativity. As a result, many were not chronicled as part of any of the projects to record existing quilts and patterns.

OP may be lucky enough to stumble on to what she is looking for, but more likely will need to create her own pleasing design that she can say is inspired by her ancestor’s quilt.

I'd be surprised to find very many quilts made from kits in the 30's. The country was still in the depression and people were extremely poor. In my family, the quilts from that era were made from feedsacks and leftover clothing. My mother used to talk about sitting in the evenings cutting up old clothes and sewing them into quilts with her mother and sisters. Times were hard and lots of women (maybe most) couldn't even afford new fabric, much less a kit. Later (50's and 60's) there were many kits, but I'm not sure about the depression era.

04-29-2022, 04:49 PM

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I found this one in the Quilt Index at Henry Ford Museum.

Good luck!

https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=f...&kid=12-8-3968

04-29-2022, 04:53 PM

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I found this one in the Quilt Index at Henry Ford Museum.

Good luck!

https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=f...&kid=12-8-3968

Ooooh! That is so pretty!

04-29-2022, 05:08 PM

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Very pretty, but not the one.

I really think it was a pattern in a magazine or newspaper. Or she came up with the pattern over a picture in one of those. She lived in a very rural area in Ohio.

04-29-2022, 05:29 PM

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According to the international quilt museum kits were sold in the 30s.

https://www.internationalquiltmuseum...kits-1915-1950

04-29-2022, 06:22 PM

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According to the international quilt museum kits were sold in the 30s.

https://www.internationalquiltmuseum...kits-1915-1950

Thanks for that link. For “kit quilts”, those were amazing.

04-30-2022, 07:28 AM

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berrynice, you are a creative person. Make your own pattern from your memories. I know you can do it. Your great-great grandmother will be looking down on you and be so proud of you. I have faith in you. Go for it girl. Show us a picture when you finish.

04-30-2022, 09:26 AM

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Some inspiration quotes for you: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item...trapunto-quilt

http://grandmalaurel.blogspot.com/20...ilt-block.html

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/906350...5923/?mt=login

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1163224...search_click=1

The first link is to a vintage 19030’s quilt. The second is to a quilt made in the last decade designed by Cori Blunt of Chitter Chatter Designs which does not appear to still be in business. The third is for a vintage quilt sold on eBay. The fourth is for a book with a pattern.