This one may be an individual creation. The applique and embroidery is of realistic Autumn Maple leaves, (more typical would be stylized geometric leaves), hand stitched diamond and wavy diamonds quilting at 7 stitches per inch, 70" X 86", circa 1940-1950, medium weight batting, little used and in perfect condition, professionally washed. We accept time payments and quantity discounts. ** WE GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF OUR MERCHANDISE AS REPRESENTED. MEMBERS OF: THE ANTIQUES COUNCIL, THE CAPE ... Click for details

A rare example of a "Friendship Quilt" which is signed by each of the women who made it and by the two "state home agents" who organized and taught the women to make a quilt. Each of the quilt blocks is also hand painted with the favorite flower of each of the women using textile paint (color fast). The women were farmers' wives in rural Kirksville, Missouri. Dated 1951, all cotton, all hand quilting at 7 stitches per inch in wreath and swag designs and with diagonal, horizontal and vertical lin... Click for details

"Country Garden" is the name given this pieced quilt pattern by the Stearns and Foster Co. which sold bedding and also sold quilt patterns to housewives during the 1920's-1930's. This is a fine example of a depression era "kit quilt" in a rare design with an Art Deco influence, hand sewn and very finely quilted with straight and diagonal lines at a remarkable 10-11 stitches per inch, circa 1930, 78"x 88", all cotton, professionally washed and in excellent original condition. For a similar exampl... Click for details

"Grandmother's Fan", a standard design pieced quilt with an individual twist, colors as bright as the sunlight on a white sand beach at noonday, with an almost infinite number of fabrics, probably left over from sewing projects and feedsacks (sellers of farm supplies understood that farm wives used scraps of fabric to make quilts - packaging supplies in re-usable material could help sell the contents), all cotton, medium weight batting, hand sewn, 7 stitches per inch, 68" X 76", in excellent ori... Click for details

"OLD MAID'S RAMBLE", a sturdy and utilitarian pieced quilt, circa 1910, in a seldom seen pattern made with handsome shirting fabrics and handsewn with care at 7"-8" per inch, the straight parallel line quilting is randomly done impressively between 3/8" and 1" apart,the original blue binding is machine sewn and has a latter binding of printed fabric attached to it probably about 1970, the entire quilt is well preserved with only one small professional repair on the reverse side, professionally ... Click for details

A classic "Star of Bethlehem" all hand stitched pieced quilt with an individual touch-a swag border, soft soothing colors and very soft to the touch all cotton fabrics, extensively quilted with circles, semi-circles, shells and 1" squares, 8 stitches per inch, circa 1940, 74" X 74", professionally washed and in very good condition. We accept time payments and quantity discounts. ** WE GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF OUR MERCHANDISE AS REPRESENTED. MEMBERS OF: THE ANTIQUES COUNCIL, THE CAPE COD ANT... Click for details