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Stitching & Crafting Room:  Suggestions for very old quilt blocks?  |
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diane
Victoria
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Canada
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 Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 10:29:36 AM
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I received a wonderful gift yesterday. My dear aunt sent me ten very old quilt blocks that my grandmother had made about 70 years ago. It is the Sunbonnet Sue pattern with embroidered detailing. They are all made from pretty fabric flour sacks on an offwhite woven fabric. What a treasure!
Any suggestions on what I could do with them so I could preserve them and yet enjoy looking at them? Most are very thin and fragile. I have them loosely wrapped in a pillowcase in my dresser and keep taking them out and looking at them!
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
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Wendy
Utah
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 10:45:29 AM
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Make a serious of them framed going down the hall so each can be a work of art. if you have children as they grow up then at their wedding you could give one and still have some. Just a thought if you don't have kids then it is just a very lovely display in a hall or going up a flight of stairs. this way you get to see them but hey don't get any more damage since you said they are weak.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com
my web stores www.sunshines.etsy.com and http://vintagethreads.etsy.com
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
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Tina
sunshine state
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 10:58:48 AM
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I think having them framed would be a great idea too.
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quilt8305
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Mary
Spokane
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 2:49:50 PM
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If you frame them be sure the framer uses acid free everything where it will touch the fabric.
Mary
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
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Wendy
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diane
Victoria
BC
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 6:18:48 PM
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Thanks Sunshine and Tina...that is actually what I was thinking of doing. There is no way they could possibly be made into anything as they are so fragile. My Mom's birthday is in January, so I think I might frame one for her and then, as I can afford it (wow it's expensive!!), have one done for each of my girls.
Thanks Mary about the "acid free"...I hadn't even thought of that and I should have.
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vintagechica
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Eren
Poolville
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 6:55:27 PM
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What a treasure to have! So glad you found a good use for them and a way to preserve them.
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bramble
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 7:12:51 PM
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What a wonderful present! Enjoy! I'm so happy for you!
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
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Wendy
Utah
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 8:38:56 PM
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Diane
I agree I have a circa 1900 salesman tatting sampler that my husband had framed about 7 months ago it cost 800.00 for archival mats and to be hand stitched in place and to have museum quality glass a Victorian looking frame. But all said and done it was so worth it in the end. Mine is hugh I doubt yours would cost so much as mine is 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide. So it is rather large for handwork.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com
my web stores www.sunshines.etsy.com and http://vintagethreads.etsy.com
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 8:43:42 PM
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One of my favorite things is a filet crocheted picture of 2 horse's heads that my grandma made in 1949. It hung in the hall in my grandparent's house my whole life and I can't beleive how fortunate I am to have it. I am fairly certain it isnt' framed right (I mean acid free and all) but I am sort of afraid to mess with it. I will have to take a pic of it sometimes. It hangs in my bedroom right now.
Jenny in Utah
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diane
Victoria
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Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 9:28:05 PM
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Sunshine...<gulp> $800??!! Wow, that's waaay out of my budget, although I would agree that you have a true family heirloom to hand down to your daughters someday. I'd love to see it, I bet it's beautiful.
Jenny...isn't it funny how we become so attached to things. That crochet would be very dear to me, too. I have a little metal jewelry box and it holds something more precious to me than all the gold in the world. It is a little, well-worn thimble, lined with masking tape, that belonged to my grandmother. She always had a thimble on her finger when she sewed something. She was an amazing lady and I will always miss her.
Geez, listen to me...must be getting close to Christmas or something. lol
Di
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brightmeadow
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Brenda
Lucas
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Posted - Dec 12 2006 : 04:39:59 AM
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I also had an old grandmother's flower garden quilt that was loved to death by us kids. It was made by my great-grandmother, probably in the 1930's, and the top of it had all the flowers worn off. But the flowers around the outside were still fresh as daisies, so to speak! I couldn't bear to throw it away but it was just too far gone to repair. So I cut out the best of the flowers, leaving a 1-inch border around them, then mounted each on a backing board and selected a mat in a complimentary color, framed it, labeled it with my great-grandmother's name and approximate date and the quilt pattern name on translucent vellum, and gave each of the siblings and my parents one for Christmas a few years ago. I used stock sizes and off-the shelf mats and frames from Michaels, checked that the mats were acid-free. I'm sure it's not museum quality but I think it will last for a good long while, better than in my basement in a jumbled heap where it previously was. I think I spent under $80 for each one.
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sunshine
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Wendy
Utah
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Posted - Dec 12 2006 : 07:12:08 AM
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It is very lovely it hangs in my front room it use to be over our upright grand but now it sits on the wall just over two C. 1880 Eastlake chairs. So it is with something more period to it. I'll try and get a photo today not easy to take photos of glassed items you always get a glare ( and if you have glare resistant glass you are damaging your art work) there are bits of it here and there on my blog I think there was the frame of it showing in the thanksgiving post. The one with the turkey. Yep I just checked
here is the link you wont see the whole thing but pieces of it this is when it was still with the piano before we hung it on the other wall.
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/2006/11/happy-thanksgiving.html
Click on the photo some click twice for better picture of it.
If you look closely you can see what these items originally sold for written by the salesman over 100 years ago. This is what he or she would use to sell lace to all the mercantiles. The saleman would go from store to store taking orders then go back to all the separt tatters and order supplies to take back to the merchants. My husband didn't use to realy care for it. But when I started my company he wanted things like this out instead of in drawers where they get wrecked from dry rot and folding. I am so glad he wanted it up. The funny thing now since he is starting his company with two friends our argument is where does it hang with me or in his office he likes it that much.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com
my web stores www.sunshines.etsy.com and http://vintagethreads.etsy.com
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