Why You'll Love This Old Scrappy Quilt!
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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In this episode of Lessons from an Old Quilt, we will look at an old scrappy quilt top. This amazing vintage quilt has alternating nine-patch and solid blocks creating this stunning design! This will surely inspire any of your quilting projects!
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➡️ Overall Quilt Measurement: 75" x 86"
➡️ Block size: 5.5"
➡️ Number of Quilt Blocks: 195 (98 Nine Patch Blocks & 97 Solid Blocks)
➡️ Machine Pieced (not quilted; flimsy)
➡️ Condition: Fair; some holes, fading, and stains
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"This was 2 AM". I startled the people around by my LOL. This is so, so true!
😂 Right? 😂
Love that teancum was a guest on your channel
Me, too! He is awesome. So much fun to work with him and all of the Sew Yeah family. ❤️
Love looking at all these old quilts… thanks for sharing it. 💚
You are so welcome! ❤️
Anxious to see the tutorial and you said you are using a print for the background - I'm intrigued! I'm also inspired. I wanna go right now into my sewing room and pick out a background - I have 2 fabrics that I think would be perfect, both solids - a light coral and a pale aqua. BUT! I need to get more UFOs done before I start something new.
Coming soon! I hope to have the tutorial posted later this week! Just adding some finishing touches to it. So glad you are inspired by this one! It is a beauty! ❤️
Enjoy learning about old quilts. Loved this one for sure.
Thank you! It is a gem!
I would never have thought to do a pink background but wow it sure shines!
2am piecing for sure! Lol
Right? 😂😂😂
We have all been there, like he said!
My grandma asked what color we liked Then she'd cut background fabric She liked improved 9 patch Big pieces and curved seams Some called it Dinnerplate ❤
One of my first quilts in my collection is an improved 9. patch quilt! I love that one! Thank you for sharing!
This is great anthropology/archeology to figure out how this was done. I am 68 years old and have been pieceing since the 1970s. On my Kenmore sewing machine. I would have cut each square out, probably with a cardboard template copied from a quilting book. We did not learn about "nesting" seams or "strip sets" until much later from Eleanor Burns on a show called "Quilt in a Day." Absolutely revolutionised the art form. Before then, we used scissors to cut, not rotary cutters, which make the pieces not quite as crisp. And messing with all those tiny parts made pieceing really fiddly. Thanks for sharing all of this info and your theories about this quilt. I enjoy your content very much.
Thank you so much! It was our pleasure! And thank you for sharing this information. We sometimes forget about the techniques and quilters who came before us. Love that your shared this!
I, too, learned to quilt (in part) from Eleanor Burns. I still have some of her books and follow her techniques today. She is a true quilting treasure! I started sewing in the early 1990s. She was one of my first quilting teachers. ❤️
My first quilt was the Log Cabin Quilt in a Day in 1995. Thank you for giving Eleanor the credit for revolutionizing the quilt world. I love your quilt. My grandmother used turquoise as a background for one of her quilts, and my husband’s grandmother must have had a lot of purple because I have a few scrap quilts of hers with a purple solid. Thank you for sharing your quilt.
It is my pleasure! Love Eleanor!
Ohhhh, turquoise would be amazing! I am sure it is beautiful!
if only the quilt could talk and tell the great story of the fabrics♥love the collaboration too!
Oh, I would love that! My house would be so chatting! 😂 Thank you so much! It was fun working with Teancum!
I’m glad this old quilt was rescued and will be finished. Looking forward to seeing the result of your labour of love. X
Thank you! 😊
Beautiful Quilt Kris❣️ Thank you for the lesson❣️
You are so welcome, Tracy! 🥰
Loving this pink background on this quilt! Love this lessons learned!
Thanks so much! ❤️
I love this quilt!!!! I want to make one like it!!!!
Isn't it great? There is a tutorial coming up! Stay tuned!
this quilt reminds me of a first quilt project that we did in the 1950-1960s in 4H club.!
Oh wow! Love that! 😊
I have so many found memories from 4H!
The yellow in the blocks really stand out to me. Beautiful!
Ohhhh, true! I didn't even notice that until I read your comment! Great eye!
Thanks for showing us all of these wonderful old quilts! I struggle with perfection and seeing that beautiful quilts aren’t always perfect,and that “it’s okay” helps me to be less hard on myself and enjoy the process more. I really enjoy your videos.
You are so welcome! I love that about these oldies, too. It always makes me feel better about my own quilting journey. I am happy to hear it makes you feel better, too. We, as quilters, are far too hard on ourselves. ❤️
Also don't forget, if that old. it would have been made to use everyday, not for once in awhile or to hang or to show. It's a beautiful quilt of old, someone worked really hard on that, or several people might have worked on it, wouldn't it be neat to know? Yes!
Great points! Thank you! ❤️
Amazing Lesson! Always enjoy Your story’s an and lessons. Thanks so much for sharing 👍🏼
Yay! So happy to hear! It was our pleasure. What had a blast making this video. ❤️
I neve rreally thought too much about all the quilting gear we have these days but Teancum is right. We have all we need to do a great job. Just a few decades ago they had a sewing machine and scissors. Maybe not even really good thread. Not that Teancum actually said this but when he spoke about us having so much it got me thinking.
So true! I loved his perspective on this quilt. He made so many wonderful points! It was fun sharing this experience with him. I hope to do it again sometime. ❤️
I always choose a colour for the background hate using white!
Love it! ❤️
I love how they used the pink background fabric as the center of the 9 patch!
Isn't it great? I love that component, too! We have a tutorial on it coming up! ❤️
This was awesome
Thank you so much! Glad you love it! It was fun getting Teancum's take on this. ❤️
Really fun quilt! I might use my treasure (hoarded!) vintage fabrics to make one for myself. Thanks for this !!
Great idea! Love it! I should do the same thing. 😁
Would be a good leader Ender project thanks again
Oh! Yes! Perfect for that! Great idea!
It was our pleasure! ❤️
Great to see you both together, thank you
It was a wonderful collab! Hope to do it again sometime, but maybe not in the summer. This northeastern quilter was sweaty! 😂 Thanks for watching!
Just love these old quilts and the stories that the hold. Makes me feel better also when my seams don't match😊
Me, too! I think this is something like my 70th Lessons from an Old Quilt video, and each time I learn something new. Can't wait to see what future quilts bring! So happy it has helped you, too! ❤️
This quilt spoke to me. I can see a family of sisters, aunts, grandparents or neighbors sharing their scrap fabrics….from clothing. No doubt that pink was from a sheet. Many old country towns had what was called RAG BARNS. These were discarded donated used clothing piled on tables. Nothing like the thrift stores of today. Some pieces of scrap material were sold in bags. Templates were not exact and cut in somewhat 2 inch squares.
Thanks for sharing! This came from a town with an old textile mill, too, so it very well could have been make with scraps from that. ❤️ Great insight!
Fabulous information! Thanks
@@elaineyakatan2310 Thank you! 🥰
H Kris and Teancum! This is an amazing video. I love the quilt, but even more I love how Teancum appreciates the old quilts and techniques that were used to make them. Two Thumbs Up!! Now I feel better about seams not nesting. ~~ Lynne
Thank you so much! It was fun making this one with Teancum. He brought a completely new perspective! I love it! That's one of my favorite things about looking at these old beauties--they help me relax about my own quilting journey! I love that! So happy it has helped you, too!
A lot of women before us only got to work on their quilt after the kids went to bed so it could be 2 am maybe? Thanks for video
So true! And men, too! Many men worked on quilts, as well. Labor of love, to say the least. ❤️
You can never have too much pink in my world! Love this quilt 😍. So many interesting fabrics. That green really puzzles me, especially with the hearts, roses, and other Valentine motifs.
Teancum's point about background colors is so true. I love to use different colors for backgrounds but I'm not sure I would be brave enough to use such a bright color.
My guess is that this is a 50s-60s quilt and that the quilter put so much effort into the top that they did not want to layer and hand quilt it, cause that is the only option there was for quilting then.
Have loved all the videos you've done with Sew Yeah!
Get online tonight for their Saturday destash!
Great points! I wish these beauties could talk. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this one! Bring on the Saturday Destash on Sew Yeah's channel! 🥰
Glad to see you Teancum😊 love the collaboration and learning❤
Thank you! It was so much fun! ❤️
Thanks I love this pattern. I just finished a disappearing 9 patch that was inspired by Teacums recent video. I used a beautiful blue that my 20year old nephew picked for his quilt. Thank goodness for support of my sewing class and shop with co ordinating colours and fabric because it's a bit scary at the start. Turned out stunning. ❤️🇦🇺
Our pleasure!
Wonderful! Love this! Thank you for sharing!
A lot of work went into that quilt. It's a shame it never got finished - I guess it adds to the mystery.
Yes! So much work. I am planning on repairing and finishing this one. It just have to save it. Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
@@SewtheDistance Kris, I hope you enjoyed your time in Las Vegas. That's where I live and Sew Yeah is my quilt store! Isn't it gorgeous? I don't get there as often as I used to because their old location was much closer to my house, but I do make the trip every couple of months. What a beautiful, big store!
I did! It was amazing and the store--WOW! So big and beautiful! I can't wait to go back! ❤️
@@SewtheDistance Well, let me know if you come back. I'd love to stop in and say hi!
Absolutely! I will let you know!
Love this quilt! Thanks for sharing. This is inspirational-I want to make something like this now!! Great video and I look forward to the later tutorial.❤
It was our pleasure! So happy you like it! The tutorial will be coming later this week on my channel. I hope you love it! Teancum and I worked on it together.
If this was a 1950-1960 coverlet, I think about what I learned on at that same time. Mother had a 1945 White which hummed along better than my “old” Singer Quantum Stylist. She made all her dresses and mine until 1965 when she went to work. Then I sewed doll clothes and quilts and learned household mending on the White. Just a side note, I was put on the kitchen step stool and pulled up to the ironing board and used a modern iron with a stainless steel bottom plate, a sprinkler bottle (a soda pop bottle with a sprinkler stuck in it), some dissolved Linit starch that scorched 😉, to press sheets, pillowcases, my father’s shirts and handkerchiefs (pressed in three points pocket square, mind you) in 1961. So 1950 wasn’t that old timey. Lol. I love this quilt. It’s like the quilts I grew up with that were all scraps and not much design. This would have been a summer quilt. Brocade was often used for draperies, home decor, etc., in the 50s and I also remember my mother had a couple brocade dresses for holidays. Oh the memories…
I am so thrilled this inspired so many memories! My mom also corrected me on the ironing thing! 😂 So sorry! She also said she would have to put clothing in the freezer before ironing it! Still sounds like a lot of extra work, but I definitely was wrong about the type of iron. Sorry about that! ❤️
We had so much fun making this video. So happy you enjoyed it!
@@SewtheDistanceMy grandma taught me how to iron ! She used a liquid starch then rolled n put in a bag in fridge We sprinkled with water to get steam press If a mistaken crease had to rewet n do again I really liked the old heavy iron for cotton 100%
Wow! We just don't know how good we have it now, do we? Thank you for sharing! ❤️
I can see a pink floral...even something modern and wild used for the backing. The front is so wonderfully vintage, such an array vibrant fabrics. Yes, I too love the pink square in the middle of each block. I would give it a good press but leave the few faded pink squares. It kinda helps show the age of the quilt top. A quick repair of a few seams and it's good to go to the quilter... or should it be hand quilted in a pretty fan pattern??? Again, a bow ( curtsy) to its age.❤❤
Great ideas! Thank you! It is a gem, for sure! ❤️
Incredible! The intrigue of what might be the story behind the quilt would make an interesting research project. Love mysteries. 💗
Isn't it fun? I love thinking about this with all of these Lessons from an Old Quilt videos! ❤️
❤love this quilt. Thanks
You are so welcome! So glad you love it! ❤️
Great find!
Isn't it? I have amazing friends! ❤️
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It's interesting to me that you're talking about the lack of flatness on the back of the quilt when the quilt is old. When I was a kid and my grandma and I were making quilts, we'd never heard of nesting and we never ironed. Because flatness wasn't at all important. We were either going to tie the quilt or hand stitch the quilting. So puckering during the long-arm process wasn't an issue which I believe is why the modern obsession with flatness arose? We always pre-washed. So, this year when I came back to quilting as an adult, there were so many things that I felt were completely new to me in the world of quilting. It took me a while to accept that which direction the seams were laying on the back was even important because if you're not machine quilting, it's really not as big an issue. It does help with point matching, but I had to learn that because we had always struggled to make the technique work without looking or worrying about the back. I guess we just didn't know that this would make life easier?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this and for watching. It is a great quilt, isn't it?
It absolutely is. I really enjoyed the video.@@SewtheDistance
(Jayne) brocade is a thicker fabric for like drapes, upholstery, etc.
Thanks, Jayne! I think that's what it is. ❤️
@@SewtheDistanceBrocade is a fabric with woven in colored patterns. You can see on the back where threads are carried along and then woven into the front here and there to form the pattern. It originated in China as a luxury silk fabric centuries before it started to be made in Europe. Some people trace the origin of computers to the Jacquard loom used to make brocade in France, programmed by a system of cards that raised colored threads to the surface to be woven into the pattern at the right point in the sequence. This powered loom made brocade available for use in drapery, upholstery, etc. It's a tricky material to work with because the back is covered with loose threads, so cutting it has to done with care to avoid destabilizing the front.
I think what you have here is called bark cloth, a heavy fabric with a rough texture used for drapes and upholstery in the 1950s/1960s.
Thank you for the information! This isn't bark cloth. It isn't that thick. I have a large collection of bark cloth. I do think it is a small piece of brocade, especially now that I have done more research on it. It is a delicate fabric but different than the cottons. Maybe it was a piece from a relative's clothing or something. Hmmm. I wish these quilts could talk.
Again, thank you for the information!
@@SewtheDistance Seersucker, perhaps?
It is a bit heavier. I am pretty sure it is brocade.
Very beautiful quilt flaws and all. It took a lot of time to make too bad the maker couldn't finish.
My friend is a quilter in her 80's and her TR (time remaining is short she says. She is still quilting and leaving the tops for her children and grand children to finish.
Oh wow. That is beautiful and sad at the same time. Love to your friend.
So happy you love this quilt top as much as we do. ❤️
Is the pink 100% cotton? It looks like duponi silk to me. Always fun to see old quilts. Keep learning 🩷
I does look that way under the lights, but it is, in fact, 100% cotton. ❤️ Great observation!
Back then people just made quilts without the quilt police looking over their shoulders. We have so much exposure to "perfect" quilts on the internet, in books and magazines, etc. that it can be quite inhibiting. I made a few quilts back in the 1970s and just worked out how for myself, invented strip piecing (a plus) and used 5/8" seams because that's what I learned in 8th grade sewing class (a minus). When I got back into it some years ago I was surrounded by so many good ideas that I still second guess every decision about fabric choice and placement as if the quilt were going to be judged by a host of critics. I try not to let it inhibit me, but it does and I wish I could get back to my state of blissful ignorance (but with quarter inch seams)! ;-)
Btw, the back of that quilt top looks very familiar, but I had the excuse that I was living out in the bush without electricity, and would have had to iron with sad irons heated on the wood stove. Seams that weren't ironed the right way are particularly lumpy when they're 5/8", too!
Thanks so much for sharing! I am sure your quilt was beautiful and I am so sorry you were judged for it. The more I study these old quilts in my collection (nearly 125 vintage/antique quilts now), the more I see the creativity of making a quilt. I've learned there are so many ways to make a quilt, and not one of them is wrong. Thanks again for watching and sharing your thoughts on this beauty! ❤️
@@SewtheDistance Oh, I wasn't judged for it - I judge myself for it in retrospect! 😊 Ignorance really was bliss, and I often wish I could get back to it!
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 Ohhhh! Okay! ❤️
Yes, this is very similar to the thought I just expressed. We just did it and didn't know that our seams were supposed to nest or that the quilt was supposed to be flat. We just wanted out family to be warm and snuggly.
My paternal grandma would make a quilt like this ! She liked colored background Told me thats why she didn't enter at state fair Said she did them wrong! She would never leave her back in a mess She always sewed with pressing in mind Told me no reason to be sloppy but accidents will happen 😂
Oh, I just love your geandma and her wonderful outlook about the back. I wish should would have put it in the fair! The Quilting Police would still be talking about it! Scandalous! 😀 I love that she liked to add color backgrounds. Thank you for sharing this. It made my morning!
Thank you for the comment that the seams aren’t all nested. How many times do you think you’ve nested your seams only to find out that one of the seams folded when you weren’t looking
Right? Completely agree! I always makes me feel better about my own quilts when I look at these. Here is the incredible quilt top and the seams aren't nested. Who cares, right? In the end, it doesn't really matter. That and the two fabrics together! That could really derail a process. Thank you so much for your insight! ❤️
Also, back then our patterns were pretty simple. Never on point, never stars. We made patterns that were turn out the quilts quickly. Squares and rectangles with the occasional triangle.
brocade
No rotary cutters or rulers yet--scissors & templates only--so no strip piecing yet.
Good point about the templates, but strip piecing, even by hand, we done. My grandmother used strip piecing in some of her quilts from the 1940s. It seems nothing is new. 🥰
I don't think the pink was from a sheet. Sheets (and underwear) were white back then. Just white. Always white or maybe even unbleached. Because the color would have bleached out right away. White was less expensive, and also considered more hygienic. I remember laughing at the first colored sheet I ever saw, and thinking why on earth would anyone pay more for that.
Thank you for this information! I am always learning. So interesting! ❤️