We love regularity (some of us.)
But some of us love spontaneity.
A favorite find for me is a wacky star in a 19th-century quilt.
No templates involved here.
An eagle with a load of odd-shaped arrows and stars (late 19th c.?)
Reproduction eagle and star by me
These appliqued stars seem to be related to the dogtooth border technique where seamstresses slashed a strip and tucked under the points as they appliqued.
Appliqued dogtooth border
The stars were especially popular with eagles.
The stars could have 8 points, 6, 5 or 4.
Quilt dated 1898
4 points.
In the next post in a few days I'll show you how they did these free-cut stars.
Below are the allover views of some of these quilts.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/12/dogtooth-borders.html
And more about the eagle design here last year.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/07/eagles-and-eccentricities.html
Quilt dated 1848 with a scallop border and a many free-cut five-pointed stars.
What great examples of the Eagles and stars. There are some here that aren't in my eagle file - thanks. The Centennial Knappenberger is one of my favorite quilts, and with the closing of the NY folk ark museum I don't know when I'll see it again -
ReplyDeleteThese are really some beauties. I am thinking Mrs Knappenberger was wishing her name was Smith or Jones by the time she got done appliqueing all those letters twice! LOL. Thanks for sharing these.
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