These are two pictures of a real old quilt that was my mothers. I am not sure where she got the pattern or when she made it.. Karen my sister known on here as  IT has it in her collection of mothers work.

Mother always used a white background. I never thought about it until I was looking at some of her old work. Everything was in a cotton white for the block. I never remember seeing her sew any of the work on the blocks by machine. Come to think of it the more I study about her work she hand sewed everything. I never saw her put a binding on one the way we do today. She would always cutting the back fabric down and overlap it on the front and hem with big stitches.  That is why I have some quilts that the binding is coming loose and I have to repair them. She always had them in her quilting frame hand quilting them.   I love hand quilting but I have found that machine quilting makes the quilts last longer.

I do not know what kind of batting she used but I have the one that you can hold it up to the light and NOT see a piece of batting. I figure probably that polyester batting that everyone used years ago in the 60’s and 70’s.

I love this butterfly quilt and I intended to take my sketch book when I went to IT’s the next time and trace off the pattern. Well in the past few days I have been spending a couple of hours clearing out my studio and trying to get some order in there. Right now it looks like a tornado hit it from inside and did not do anymore damage to the rest of the house! Well yesterday I picked up an old magazine from a long time ago and what would appear on the front of the magazine? The butterfly pattern. Now what are the chances that this would happen?  I have the pattern. I am going to start on me one soon. I plan to do it a real country type look.   AND NO I am not using a white background and white backing?  It seems like all the quilts for that era was white on white!

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010.