Thursday, July 16, 2009

An Impressive Irish Chain


Several quilters hung our quilts at the local bank during Heritage Days. Yes, you've seen those 2 quilts on the right before (mine), but that Irish Chain was amazing - not mine unfortunately. It's old, all hand stitched and quilted with tiny stitches, and that border was not pieced -- it was appliqued onto the white border. From this distance (photo) the viewer can see slight irregularities in how the little squares lined up, but up close I could barely tell it was not pieced, her applique stitches were so small - it is so well done, with the red squares in all the same place, as are the green. The label said it was made in the 30s. I'm going back for another look-see.

10 comments:

  1. Wow! I made one Irish chain and it's so hard not to make a mistake with the arrangement, esp one as complex as that one. Yours are beautiful too.

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  2. Wow three beautiful quilts!!! Amazing :-)

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  3. What a great place to display your quilts. They all are beautiful!
    Lynn

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  4. That old quilt is beautiful.
    Yours are beautiful too, but do look more contemporary.

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  5. How neat to hang traditional with contemporary! What a great spot for a display. All are beautiful in their own, unique way!

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  6. Thanks for the stop by.... and I so thank you for my McTavishing comment. It was more tedious than I had anticipated...but quite pretty, I am sad that you enlarged it..as I kept running into her applique. But she loved it...and I was very proud...it got me 5 more quilts today! Yeah!

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  7. Beautiful quilts all of them!

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  8. All are lovely and make a very nice contrast.

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  9. The quilt display looks amazing! The Irish Chain re-inspired me, I have always wanted to do one, time will tell!

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  10. Wow! Thanks for sharing the quilts... they are amazing! And yes, that Irish Chain is awesome!

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