QUILTS & FABRIC: PAST & PRESENT


Monday, August 19, 2024

Appliqued 5-Pointed Stars

 

From a Baltimore sampler in Julie Silber's inventory

Over the summer I've been organizing my files on 5-pointed stars. Easy to piece if you have a good pattern; hard to draw a good pattern, sez I.


But applique!!! You just slap them on there!

Some eye candy...

Mostly from online auctions.

In the diagonal sash from the Esplanade Museum and the Arizona project.


Perhaps a soldiers' memorial


WWII with the V's for victory?
International Quilt Museum Collection
Red Cross from WWI?


International Quilt Museum Collection

1918, The New Jersey Project,
probably a Red Cross fundraiser.

Dated 1917












1 comment:

  1. Five pointed stars are indeed hard to draw/piece…at least they are hard to do well!
    I love that probable Red Cross quilt with all the blue and gold stars and the red crosses. I’m wondering if it was a fund raiser during WWII. Perhaps the blue stars and crosses represent sons and daughters in the war or Red Cross and the gold stars represent lost sons? The symmetry that the blue stars make is really interesting and different.
    I am interested in Red Cross quilts as my aunt’s SIL was a Red Cross Canteen manager during WWII. She started in England and managed canteens all over Europe until coming home after the war to manage them back here in the U.S. She attended all the Red Cross conventions until she just couldn’t physically do it anymore at age 103! Aunt Jane was amazing!!

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