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Have a question about finishing a quilt.
Hello I am very new to quilting as having done only four so far, so my
knowledge is not broad. My Uncle bought some fabric that was said to date back to the 1930s. The fabric has been hand sown into a Double Wedding Ring shape. My question is how do I go about finishing these quilts while staying true to how a person in the 30s would have done it? Should I finish them by hand and use only Muslin for the backing? Any suggestions would help............Thank you for your time. Feel free to e-mail me also. I hope I haven't confused anybody.... ) Judy |
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"JUDIK29" wrote in message ... The fabric has been hand sown into a Double Wedding Ring shape. My question is how do I go about finishing these quilts while staying true to how a person in the 30s would have done it? Should I finish them by hand and use only Muslin for the backing? Any suggestions would help............Thank you for your time. Feel free to e-mail me also. I hope I haven't confused anybody.... ) I love to look at how older quilts were finished, so any time I see a display of antique quilts, you can bet I'm dragging the white glover over to show me everything. I haven't made a thorough study of this, but there does seem to be some regional differences in how quilts were finished. A couple of years ago a local history museum had a display of locally made antique (1860 - 1940) quilts, and quite a number did *not* use muslin for the backing. Instead they used largish hunks of printed fabrics. But most of the mid-west and east coast older quilts I've seen did use plain muslin. About 10% of the quilts in the local display were machine quilted, and about half the machine quilted ones were machine bound. (The curator and I agreed that the quilting and binding appeared to be original to the quilt, not done later.) Again, that seems to be a higher percentage than I see on mid-west and eastern quilts. Maybe we're just weird here in California. *grin* -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) longarm machine quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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Thank you for the info.......... I never realized different areas would do
things differently but that does make sense. And weird is okay my sons never fails to tell me that I am weird on a daily basis LOL LOL Thank you again.........Judy |
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Kathy Applebaum wrote: .. Maybe we're just weird here in California. *grin* Not all of us, must be the northern California folks that are weird. VBG Taria |
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I have 2 quilts from the 30's, neither with a muslin backing. The one my
Great-grandmother made has a solid yellow back, that 30's shade of yellow. Both are hand quilted and machine bound. The other quilt, which came from an estate sale, has flannel for batting and a much-faded print backing. Roberta in D "JUDIK29" wrote in message ... Hello I am very new to quilting as having done only four so far, so my knowledge is not broad. My Uncle bought some fabric that was said to date back to the 1930s. The fabric has been hand sown into a Double Wedding Ring shape. My question is how do I go about finishing these quilts while staying true to how a person in the 30s would have done it? Should I finish them by hand and use only Muslin for the backing? Any suggestions would help............Thank you for your time. Feel free to e-mail me also. I hope I haven't confused anybody.... ) Judy |
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"Taria" wrote in message ... Kathy Applebaum wrote: . Maybe we're just weird here in California. *grin* Not all of us, must be the northern California folks that are weird. VBG And yet you're so willing to take our water. Ever wonder where the weirdness comes from? ROFLOL -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) longarm machine quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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Actually the 3 places I have lived in the last 20 yrs.
don't use your water. In the desert it is wonderful well water. I was in So. Orange county where they filled the man made lake during a water crisis (late 70'). While they were filling the lake nobody in the state could flush toilets. Go figure YOu can keep your water far as I'm concerned, those mosquitos you all keep as pets up there need it! On another CA subject. Do you know anything about the 25K that is being raised to house the sesquicentennial quilt? Taria Kathy Applebaum wrote: "Taria" wrote in message ... Kathy Applebaum wrote: . Maybe we're just weird here in California. *grin* Not all of us, must be the northern California folks that are weird. VBG And yet you're so willing to take our water. Ever wonder where the weirdness comes from? ROFLOL |
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I suspect many of the quilters of the '30's selected their backing
fabrics much the same way we do now -- what they like or what they have or what they can afford. I have a number of older quilts made by my husband's grandmothers. None of them have muslin backs. A couple have print backs and several have solid color backs that match a solid in the top. The oldest quilt I have was probably made about1900. It is a log cabin with tiny logs, partly hand pieced. The darks are mostly blacks and browns. The lights are the tiny shirting prints. The centers are red and white gingham. The backing is a large print that looks like it might have been intended for draperies. An interesting feature of this quilt is the way it is tied from the back using something like pearl cotton. The thread ends are on the back and from the top, you don't notice them. I often use muslin because it is relatively inexpensive and it quilts nicely. I quilted a top from the 40's a couple of years ago. It had a lot of white muslin in the top, so I used white muslin for the back. If there is quite a bit of white in the top, I would probably use white for the back, because you might be able to see the shadow of a print or another color in the white of the top. Julia in MN -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://mail.chartermi.net/~jaccola/ |
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Weird and Proud of it too! :-D
-- Anne in CA "It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got." -- Sheryl Crow http://home.covad.net/~arudolph/annes.htm Kathy Applebaum wrote: "snipped Maybe we're just weird here in California. *grin* remove NOSPAM to reply |
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In article ,
Taria wrote: On another CA subject. Do you know anything about the 25K that is being raised to house the sesquicentennial quilt? Taria Our guild got a letter on it. The plan had been to build a climate controlled case at the Golden State museum to house the quilt. What with budget cuts, the money for the case is no more. The California Heritage Quilt Project decided to try to raise the money themselves so that the quilt isn't stuck in storage for who knows how long and forgotten or damaged. Have you seen the quilt? It's quite astonishing. Gov. Wilson comissioned it years back. Quite a few quilters made sections depicting their area of the state. The finished quilt is 10 feet square (I believe) We had it on display at our guild show a few years back and did a project with the group going in to 4th grade classrooms and teaching them about the quilt and state history. It was quite fun. Anyway....that's why the group is raising the money; budget cuts. marcella |
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