Quilters of the Past were soooooo Talented!

Wow! In today's mail I received an unexpected package from a quilter that I met several years ago while visiting a friend several states away. This young quilter (younger than me is young! LOL) recently acquired an assortment of vintage sewing items. She knows I love vintage quilts and sent me several bunches of lovely, absolutely lovely, vintage quilt blocks.

One bunch included a large stack of grandmother's flower garden blocks with the hexes a bit over an inch across when sewn in place. They were fussy-cut so that the cut pieces were identical to each other. These are hand-stitched so you can see the tremendous amount of time involved in putting these together.

In the photo I've laid out a number of the blocks so you could see the patterns in the 1930s fabrics.

It was a common practice for those stitching GFGs to fussy-cut the floral pieces. Sometimes you will see fussy-cut conversational prints in these quilts. It would not surprise me if Bethany Reynlds got her idea of stack n whack from this method. Of course, fussy-cut is a bit different than stack n whack but the idea is the same...multiple pieces of identical cut.

Anyway, wanted to share this morning's surprise with all of you. Later I will take every single thing out of this box and look it over more carefully...blocks for two other quilts, some vintage batiste baby gowns, some pieces of unused vintage 1930s solids and white cotton, etc.

I am totally flabbergasted by this unexpected gift! How very kind of her to send this package to me. And if she's reading this post, I'm waving my hand in "Hi!" and "Thank you so much!"

JudyPete