More old quilts..

The Burgundy quilt was interesting. The four-patch squares were pieced randomly from scraps and set with burgundy dress fabric, then rather crudely quilted in straight lines. There are rusty marks on the back showing that it was placed on the bed-springs under a mattress for some time.

 This unusual design is pieced with scrappy parallelograms and orange triangles around an orange square. There are turquoise sashings and pink post squares which make it quite bright! The patchwork pieces and settings do not all fit together very well and it was probably a collaborative effort.

 This design of a one patch set on point makes a pattern of concentric squares by the placement of colour, but you can see in this picture that it is not consistent: the blue squares are of similar fabrics and the browns have odd pieces that are similar. However the red and ochre squares are set alternately and are similar enough to read as a line of colour.

Here is the centre of the design showing the fine hand quilting stitches through the centre of each square.

I'll post a curved design tomorrow!

Century of Progress

What a weird name for a block!

And what a blighter it is to make - I made a Foundation paper pattern for it in the end and spent a while wondering about the colour placement. I printed two copies of the pattern I'd drawn and cut one up to slightly over-sized templates so that I wasn't wasting too much fabric. Cut out to nearly the right size with just a bit extra for leeway it went together very well until the last, centre seam. I broke 3 needles stitching it, two of them brand new! And I'd taken the paper away from the seam area!!
You'll notice that I chose to finish up some fabric that wasn't quite enoughso this is truly a scrap block, but I like that about it.