I was born in the summer of '69. I am a child of the 70s. Being such, I still enjoy music from the 70s. Yesterday I listened to some very vintage Phil Keaggy.
Yesterday also found me working with a quilt with top dating to circa 1880. I found the quilt top on ebay. I sent it with batting (filling) and backing to a machine quilter in Iowa. Yesterday I was working on the binding (finished edge). I adore old quilts, especially those that date 1910 and earlier. Sadly, quilts this old are either expensive or in poor shape. This quilt top had never been used or washed--nice, crisp fabric. Some of the dyes they used during this period were toxic to the fabric and over time cause the fabric to become quite fragile. There are many fragile fabrics on this quilt, one that ripped during quilting. Still, finishing the quilt stabilized it. It was fun examining the 75+ fabrics in my hope of accurately dating the quilt.
It was strange and wonderful to mix my personal history with this quilt's history.
2 comments:
. . . same quilt . . . different ages of fabric . . . I like the picture of the fragile fabric being stabilized in the finishing . . . a picture for me . . . through you . . . from the finisher . . .
You're a quilter?! One more reason to love you :-)
Okay, I've only made...one quilt, but I'm pretty darn proud of it. And I had fun looking at my friends' quilts, the friends who pressured me into to making my son's baby quilt, before he was born.
I could get into quilting, if I didn't already have a hobby. And if I didn't detest measuring and cutting so much.
I'd love to see your quilts!!
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