Winnie writes with a pattern identification question:
This top was given to my aunt to be hand quilted. The top was completed years ago, so I'm told. She and I have looked through multiple books and on line but just can't find a name for this block. I would greatly appreciate your help.
Sweetheart Quilt by Capper's Weekly
Friendship Quilt by the Kansas City Star in 1938
A Heart for Applique by the Kansas City Star in 1951
I went to my Encyclopedia of Applique, found the one-page category named "Four Hearts"
and there it was. It seems to have been published at least three times:
I asked Winnie if I could post a picture of her Sweetheart Quilt; I'm always so glad to be able to identify a mystery.
....and see how this design was actually stitched. It seems to be appliqued using a small running stitch in black thread. The little sketches I indexed for the Encyclopedia made the construction a bit of a mystery too. But in Winnie's example I can see it's a tile quilt. There wasn't much published about tile quilts---at least until recently.
Carol Gilham Jones and Bobbi Finley published a book this year called Tile Quilt Revival: Reinventing a Forgotten Form.
It's a 19th-century technique, rather rare, in which fabric shapes are appliqued to a white background and the background shows through as sort of the grout in a tile wall. The quilt below is from 1860-1890, done mostly in wool and wool combination fabrics like challis appliqued to a white cotton ground.
I asked Winnie if I could post a picture of her Sweetheart Quilt; I'm always so glad to be able to identify a mystery.
Detail of Sweetheart Quilt, 1930-1950
....and see how this design was actually stitched. It seems to be appliqued using a small running stitch in black thread. The little sketches I indexed for the Encyclopedia made the construction a bit of a mystery too. But in Winnie's example I can see it's a tile quilt. There wasn't much published about tile quilts---at least until recently.
It's a 19th-century technique, rather rare, in which fabric shapes are appliqued to a white background and the background shows through as sort of the grout in a tile wall. The quilt below is from 1860-1890, done mostly in wool and wool combination fabrics like challis appliqued to a white cotton ground.
Tile Quilt 1860-1890
Here's a contemporary version of a tile quilt block from Carol's blog Free to Bee. Click here:
http://carolgilhamjones.blogspot.com/
Tile quilt by Carol and Bobbi
See Bobbi talking about historical tile quilts by clicking here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGFAxPzmYxw
And see these blog posts about tile quilts
http://www.weewonderfuls.com/2010/07/im-reading-about-tile-quilts.html
http://lucyquilting.blogspot.com/2010/06/tile-quilt.html
It would be fun to see Winnie's quilt from the 1930s done in new prints.
Here's a contemporary version of a tile quilt block from Carol's blog Free to Bee. Click here:
http://carolgilhamjones.blogspot.com/
Tile quilt by Carol and Bobbi
See Bobbi talking about historical tile quilts by clicking here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGFAxPzmYxw
And see these blog posts about tile quilts
http://www.weewonderfuls.com/2010/07/im-reading-about-tile-quilts.html
http://lucyquilting.blogspot.com/2010/06/tile-quilt.html
It would be fun to see Winnie's quilt from the 1930s done in new prints.
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