AQSG Welcome Party

A cone-shaped edge with a lace ruffle behind it on a silk quilt.

The welcome party featured small antique quilt shows in the hallways.

Volunteers at local historical societies brought their quilts.

And stacked them up on tables. Every few minutes they revealed another quilt from the stack.  A plethora of patchwork. 

And so did local collectors.

Betsy showed her things in a well-labeled exhibit and did a slide show for the screen.

Being as we were in New Jersey we expected to see some regional style.

An abundance of signature quilts from the early 1840s and into the '50s.

Some pieced, some appliqued.

An unusual color scheme. That purple sashing is prone

to fading so it's nice to see it as it was originally planned.

Here's an unusual back on a flying geese quilt from 1830-1850

We saw some bindings of striped woven tape.

For a while historians thought these mid-19th-century colored tapes were localized to Trenton, but more quilts have given us evidence that quilters from several states used that finish.

I'll post a list with links to the historical societies later.