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77" x 74" (196cm x 187cm)
Made from many scraps of various fabrics - including some you wouldn't normally associate with patchworking; this is nonetheless an interesting quilt and would have been a colourful addition to a cottage bedroom in the North of England from where it originates. Unfortunately, as is often the case no further provenance is known.
Liz Nally
The whole patchwork quilt
The centre block and surrounding borders
Showing the backing
This quilt has been mostly handpieced apart from one or two small
seams and the backing. It is laid out in a frame style and starts with a
very small square on point, this is surrounded by four borders of
varying widths, each with corner stones. A patchwork border is next and
this has been pieced from many scraps, some even having been joined to
make a square. A beige striped fabric completes the next border and is
followed by another patchwork border, this time with larger pieces of
fabric. Two similar-width striped fabric borders are next before a wide
off-white border completes the quilt.
The
fabrics used vary in weight and style enormously from lightweight dress
and shirting cottons to a heavier weave furnishing sateen and an open
weave red and cream stripe that could have been a tea cloth. Most are in
fairly good condition apart from the brown fabrics used near the centre
which have shattered badly in places.
The bellows and lines quilting patterns
The open weave pink striped fabric
The heavier weave sateen fabric.
The wadding is cotton and the backing is an off-white heavy cotton. The quilting is fairly neat in a white thread and the all-over bellows pattern has a diagonal lined infill.
Three edges have a handsewn butt edge with the fourth having been machined together before putting in the frame.
