This old quilt top is kind of a mess. The stitching in the blocks is not bad, but the yellow border is crudely sewn with many odd-sized pieces. It will not lie flat. I thought the blocks might have been sewn earlier by a different person, but upon closer examination, it’s clear that both the blocks and the border were sewn on the same machine. At first I thought the pattern was Barbara Fritchie’s Star, but that pattern is made up of all HSTs, and since these blocks contain at least four or more parallelograms, I decided the pattern must be Twinkling Stars.
The thing I love about this top (which I plan to take apart, of course) is that it contains what I think are “double blue” prints in the blocks. Before I saw this top, I had never even seen a double blue print, although I had heard of them. There are three different examples of these blue prints in the quilt, as well as three different double pinks.
Gorgeous – and it will be even more gorgeous when you get done with it!
I have 4 quilt tops that I am guess were made around 1890 – 1920 by a great grandmother. I want to sell them and am hoping you might tell me where I can do that and the value? thank you. Dawn Arrey