Monday, January 21, 2013

Rebirth of A Vintage Quilt

      Pat Roche
has been busy working her magic again.
She purchases wonderful vintage quilt tops
and then completes them with
stunning machine quilting.
I'm not sure of the name of this fabulous quilt pattern.
Can anyone help me out here?
*Thank you to Laura in IA!
It's an Ocean Waves pattern
 Hundreds of  small, one-inch Half Square Triangles all set on point.
Made in the day before rotary cutters and current tools were available.
 Pat's long arm work and interpretation
brings this vintage piece back to life.
 I helped out a little by sewing the binding on.
I love the fabric she used for the back.
Quilt makers in their day often used pieces of leftover clothing, 
or what ever they could find
of scrap fabrics to 
construct their quilts.
Notice all of the stripes are cut on the horizontal,
except for one vertical?
 With age, many of the sections have frayed,
 are discolored,
 or carry stains.
This adds to the personality of the quilt.
 Pat's work gives rebirth.
Beautiful!

13 comments:

  1. The lack of our rotary tools makes these quilts even more impressive. The quilting is just gorgeous.

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  2. Wow! Stunning! I agree, having to have done this by hand is incredible!

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  3. Wow. I am in awe of all of the beautiful quilts you show us.

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  4. This is So wonderful! Thanks for sharing!

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  5. Wow wow, so much work had gone into piecing this quilt. Was it hand pieced Nedra? I love Pat's machine quilting on it too. Kathie would love it - Hugs Nat

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  6. Absolutely stunning! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  7. Oh my goodness that must have been a life long project.

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  8. The quilt pattern reminds me of Ocean Waves.

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  9. Oh yes it is just lovely! Thanks for the close ups.

    Happy Sewing

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  10. What an amazing top and what a rebirth!

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