Fabric – Quilts

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things we love to buy, wear and share

Quilts, Fabrics,
Doll Quilts & Baby Dresses

I have enjoyed quilts and quilting all of my life, and I still lap quilt at home
and hand quilt on big
frames with a local group of friends at the Bear Canyon Senior Center. My
brothers and I grew up sleeping
under the wonderful quilts made by our paternal grandmother, Rachel Frances Atherton
Haley. As a long-time antique
dealer, I have had other beautiful quilts that came and went, and I wish I still had photos of
every single one.

The bed and dresser set you can see in some of these photos is our mid-Victorian
cherry four-poster bed and lovely dresser, which have been in our family since they were new in
the mid-1800s. My husband and I have slept in this bed our entire married life,
since 1971! It was originally a
rope bed, so it had ropes rather than box springs
supporting the mattress, and it was a 3/4 size rather than a standard double
size bed. I even recall sleeping in it as a small child when we visited our family in
Owensboro, Kentucky, with my great Aunt Cornelia Bennett Negley, to whom it then belonged.

LOG CABIN quilt, one of my favorite quilt patterns. I started this
quit in the 1980s and bought all of the fabric for it then, but life got
in the way, as they say, so I didn’t finish it back then. I am hoping to
finally finish it in 2025. It is entirely hand pieced and lap quilted,
not done on a frame, all done by me with not a single machine stitch at all.
It has been a joy to make, even though it was a stop-and-start project,
and I particularly enjoy the light and shadow design of this pattern.

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This is the Log Cabin quilt before it was finished, with the 15" squares laid out
next to each other on our antique four-poster bed. The blue fabric that
looks like a dust ruffle is not part of the quilt, it is another bedspread
beneath it.

QUILT a beautiful applique quilt with pastel colored flowers, it has
the tiniest and most even applique stitches you could ever wish for. The
quilt top, which was already finished, was donated to the Bear Canyon
Quilt Group that I am in, and that group quilted it entirely by hand.
Even with 6-8 women working on it, it took over a year to finish, working one morning of each week. I was delighted to be able to buy
it with from the group with a charitable contribution, and it now lives
happily at the foot of our bed.

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A lovely

RED pieced patch from long ago, probably the late 1800s. This pattern is called "Turkey
Tracks". The color is "Turkey Red" and it was probably made using madder as a
dye.

My quilt

FABRIC stash. Most quilters have much more fabric than this, but it is
plenty for me. For me, making a quilt is like painting with fabric, and I was a
painter for many years.

A wonderful Bow Tie pattern with a selection of
BLUE
colors, the center ones antique fabrics and the saw tooth border from the 1980s.
Occasionally we run across vintage pieced and sewn quilt parts like these, and
the challenge is finding more fabric to blend with the old ones, as these do so
well.

VICTORIAN log cabin quilt that was hand pieced and quilted. I enjoy
the light and shadows contrast of this wonderful pattern.

This is from the late 1800s and it is 88" by
74". It was

entirely hand pieced and quilted. It is a different variation of the
Log Cabin patter from the quilt shown above.

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FAMILY
QUILT

My husband John’s grandmother hand pieced this quilt top years ago, probably in
the 1930s, and our quilt group finished hand quilting it in 2023, much to John’ delight! This is entirely hand
pieced and quilted. The wide green printed border is a new fabric, added to make
the quilt larger, and the white border on the bottom in this photo is not a part of this quilt.

QUILT "Texas Star" pattern in
lavender and pastels, all hand pieced and quilted by my Grandmother Rachel Atherton Haley, circa
1930-40.
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QUILT "Texas Star" quilt in blue and yellow on white, all hand pieced and
quilted, 67" by 82". This is one of the quilts that came through the
antique mall we owned.
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QUILT Victorian green quilt from the late 1800s, hand pieced and
quilted, 76" by 90". This was never used so it was in wonderful
condition, and it is entirely hand
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BATIK lap quilt in lovely pastel colors, the top being basted and ready for
hand quilting on quilt frame. The lady working on it is a dear friend,
Evelyn, one of the members of our Bear Canyon Quilt Group.

The center fabric came from ebay and other fabrics came
from my friends’ fabric stashes, for which I thank them.

Here Evelyn and Janet are working on the Batik quit. We finished it in
2024.

Closer view of the batik fabrics.

QUILT top pieced with the wonderful William Morris reproduction fabrics. This
quilt top was found at a thrift store for only six dollars! I love the fabrics
and wish I had been the one who found it.

QUILT Texas Star 1950-60s quilt, never used and washed only once, a colorful star
center with a bright pink
surrounding stripe, hand quilted at 10 stitches to the inch,
79" by 78". This was a kit quilt. A very nice lady named Jan,
who is in my LVL Quilt Group, brought in this unused kit that was very much like this, and there are photos
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ANTIQUE 25 Patch quilt made in 1870 to 1890. This is also Cindy’s quilt.

Tulip and Basket quilt from the 1860s. It is in amazing
condition, looking almost brand new. This is Cindy’s quilt.

Cindy L Kurey,
certified appraiser
at the
Quilt Appraisal Talk
LVL Carter Hall March 22, 2024

Cindy said these are typical colors for this era.

Cindy can be reached to arrange for appraisals at
clkurey@gmail.com, and we found her
prices very reasonable.

TODDLER QUILTS
that I will be making this coming year.

TEETER TOTTER
girls appliqued in delicate florals and surrounded by lovely fabrics in aqua
and pink.

WATER
PLAY center will be surrounded by the fabrics in this photo, blue, yellow
and a thin red border around the center design. The subtle yellow fabric is a
Stephanie Marriott Essential.

The

CENTER fabric is a Michael Miller Fabrics LLC design named "Water Play"
Pattern C-224. It is 100% cotton and measures approximately 44" wide. It
has several different scenes of children playing in the water, all just
charming and with a vintage feel.

This
BLUE
BIRDS sitting on a branch applique was turned into a "card", along
with other squares, congratulating a mother on her new baby.

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QUILT postage stamp pattern hand
pieced and tie quilted doll quilt with delicate floral fabrics and a pink checked
back, 19" by 14-1/2".
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QUILT postage stamp pattern hand
pieced and quilted doll quilt, 6 stitches to the inch, circa 1890-1920, 11"
by 18".
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QUILT hand pieced and quilted
doll quilt, 6 stitches to the inch, 14-1/2" by 17". The color are
a bit faded as you can see in the picture, and there are two brown spots,
one the size of a quarter and one the size of a dime, in the center of the
quilt. Also 2 squares have seams pulling loose slightly. Some little girl
must have enjoyed using it a lot!
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QUILT hand pieced and quilted
red, white and blue doll quilt, 9 stitches to the inch, 13-1/2" by 18-1/2".
There are several squares that are threadbare in this quilt and it is
probably late Victorian or very early 1900s.
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CHILD’S small case
that was hand
embroidered with a basket motif. It came with doll-sized wooden peg clothes pins and
the clothes line inside, 5-1/2" by 3".
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BISQUE baby doll with hand
crocheted dress, circa 1910.
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My Great Aunt Mary and her sister, my Grandmother Agnes with their dolls
circa 1900. Note the porcelain statue and footed basket on the dresser
behind the two girls.