QUILTS & FABRIC: PAST & PRESENT


Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Beyond Scrappy

 

We looked at scrappy quilts last month...
https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-scrappy-quilt.html

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Bessie Bailey Sanford

Detail

But then there are quilts of shreds....
Maryland Historical Society

And shards


Massachusetts Project & the Quilt Index
Found in an attic trunk

International Quilt Museum 1997-007-0866

National Museum of American History
Signed by Nancy Rutherford Fisher
1899

Vermont Historical Society

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10 comments:

  1. NannDecember 3, 2024 at 2:34 PM

    Hard to imagine hand-piecing a zillion scraps!

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    1. Barbara BrackmanDecember 3, 2024 at 5:34 PM

      These stitcher look rather compulsive. You don't think about it. You just sew----A little or a lot everyday. I could get into it!

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  2. AnonymousDecember 4, 2024 at 5:17 PM

    I would love to make the one that looks like a whirlpool. How on earth was that done?

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    1. Barbara BrackmanDecember 9, 2024 at 12:35 PM

      A good question. I'll do a post soon on how I think it was done.

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  3. sue sDecember 5, 2024 at 9:28 AM

    Wouldn't these quilts be really heavy? But then they'd be warmer too I suppose.

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    1. Barbara BrackmanDecember 5, 2024 at 12:13 PM

      Yes. All that fabric in the seams. There's one at Spencer Museum---it weighs a ton!

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  4. Clare WattDecember 6, 2024 at 12:51 PM

    Hi Barbara! Really enjoy your blog. I just opened a show in New York called "Thread and Canvas". It's a small group exhibition that I curated inspired by the 1983 travelling exhibition The Artist and the Quilt. This show draws on the rich history of textile art and quilting, featuring the works of four female artists:Natalie Baxter, Lydia Donohue, Liv Ryan, and Clare Watt. Please feel free to stop by, its on 38 Renwick Street.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 6, 2024 at 1:26 PM

    These are my favorite kinds of quilts --- something wonderful from something seemingly useless.... the colours are mesmerizing to me! -- matty

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  6. JustGailDecember 7, 2024 at 8:59 AM

    Fantastic quilts, my brain is busy *trying* to find patterns in them. Love the Nancy Rutherford Fisher quilt - swirling around and around the whole top. I wonder what was going on in her world, and if it represents things going down the drain or up in a tornado. Or it could simply be that's what worked with the shape of the scraps she had and she just kept going instead of making blocks.
    Seeing these, I'm finding the fuss about "made fabric" being the hot new thing in the last 5-10 years a bit humorous.

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  7. quality embroidery digitizing servicesDecember 27, 2024 at 9:21 AM

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