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Tops From the Trunk — Antique Nine-Patch Variation

Posted on July 27, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha

This is one of two tops that I recently purchased from a seller who bought them at an estate sale (the other top was featured in an earlier post). She thought they were made by the same person, and I suspect that’s true. The hand piecing is similar, and several prints are repeated in both quilts. Like me, this scrappy quilt maker made up some rules for her design — 9 patches containing 4 darker and 4 lighter squares with a double pink center. Of course, the eye-catching detail in this top is the colorful cheddar cornerstone in the unusually wide double-pink sashing. The top is 73″ x 89″, and there are two narrow double-pink and cheddar borders on the sides of the quilt, but no borders on the top and bottom. I like to think this was intentional, and not because the quilter ran out of fabric. Either way, I intend to keep it like this.

There is a huge variety of brown, madder, double-pink and shirting prints in the nine-patches, and the fabrics appear to be stable. There are 3 small nine-patch squares with stains, which I plan to replace, but it won’t be noticeable because this is a true scrap quilt, with many fabric substitutions.

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  • 3 thoughts on “Tops From the Trunk — Antique Nine-Patch Variation”

    1. mickie says:
      July 28, 2016 at 4:39 am

      Martha, this quilt is so interesting because the sashing is so wide in comparison with the nine patches. It’s lovely!

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    2. Little Penpen says:
      July 29, 2016 at 5:33 am

      I love old quilts with cheddar color… love this one!

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    3. Joyce Carter says:
      July 29, 2016 at 12:19 pm

      I love the quilt Martha.

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