A superfluously wonderful thrift shop find: this quilt top in perfect condition, hand-pieced. Last week I put it together with a back and the batting and machine-quilted it in an afternoon.
*Such* a satisfying project! I love the mad colors--the black, the fuschia, the deep yellow. Someone had a flashy scrap box!
It's not random, and I'm sure it has a name, being made of concentric diamonds working outwards from the center.
That would certainly brighten up any room.
ReplyDeleteTrip Around the World? If it starts in a center square, with diamonds around that square radiating outwards, that should be it.
ReplyDeleteI've a lone-star type top also found at a thrift store - similarly hand pieced. It's been sitting in my sewing pile for several years for the same reason the original maker probably let it go - the rows are pastel solids, alternating with plain muslin. I can't for the life of me figure out what to use for the setting squares. Ah. Someday I'll figure it out...
Looks like a Boston Commons quilt to me. Very nice
ReplyDeleteIt's Around the World with the diamonds. Trip Around the World is squares. :)
ReplyDeleteI remember this because I love the Around the world (it's a twenties pattern) and my mom keep making speed-pieced trip Around the World, which is slightly different.
Excellent find.
Beautiful quilt and just in time for the cool Autumn nights.
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Just beautiful Anna and perfect for the cooler weather :)
ReplyDelete"She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow, for all her domestics are clothed with double garments."
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Triple garments, I think!
Beautiful! Out of curiosity, was the quilt pieces in strips, row by row, or was one block inset into another?
ReplyDeleteWhat a great find!
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