A cartoon character "Scrappy"
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A scrappy quilt
We love to make them and love to look at them....
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One would guess the name is fairly recent but....
In 1854 two Richmond, Virginia quiltmakers entered
"scrap quilts" in the fair.
Quilt dated 1854
Pat Nickols Collection Mingei Museum
Blocks dated 1857-1858, Quilt associated
with Emmeline Smith, Rhode Island Project
Already an object of nostalgic memory by 1888
My great grandmothers & grandmother made tons of scrap quilts from clothing and whatever else scraps. I always wished my grandmother made me more “organized” quilts, and she did make a few. But now, I appreciate her scrappy ones more. All those colors! Now I’m making “organized” scrap quilts with selected colors. I’ve come full circle!
ReplyDeleteI find scrappy quilts so interesting. The way they catch my eye and pull it around, make my brain go "huh?" or "oh - there's a star...wait where did it go?", etc. Even the ones that might be considered ugly, or inspire thoughts of "what were they thinking?!" give so much to look at.
ReplyDeleteI finally finished my Grandmother's Choice quilt from your BOM. I started on election day in 2020, finished piecing the top in September 2021, and set it aside. I finished quilting & binding it in the days surrounding election day this year. It seemed appropriate to finish it during another election.
After lithography came into use, small colorful paper images were produced and known as ' scraps' in the US and Britain and other names in Europe. Started in early 1800s. I am familiar with scraps through German Christmas ornaments that were built around a ' scrap' such as an angel' face. They were collected to fill 'scrap' albums. Could there be a crossover to quilts made from numerous small pieces?
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