Mini-Quilt from vintage fabrics

I've been wanting to make this mini-quilt for quite some time. Several years ago I made a similar one for a friend. The fabrics are vintage fabrics from around 1900. Each square was cut at 1-3/8 inch. Seams were 1/8 inch which was easy to do on my Singer 301 for it has its original pressure foot that was narrow on the right edge. You probably wondered why so many vintage quilt tops have such narrow seams? Its because the pressure foot on those old machines had that narrow right edge.

Anyway, the finished blocks are one inch in size. I was able to find enough of the blue to make the border. For batting I will take a thin cotton batt, peel it apart so that I have only half a layer. This will keep the quilt very thin. The back will be a modern cotton ... the kind that has a flannel feel to the back side.

I noticed that many of these antique fabrics were similar to that flannelette ... the right side of the fabric appeared to be plain cotton. The back had the soft fluff of flannel. I'm guessing these were winter dress fabrics and it made me wonder if today's quilt-shop flannelettes would make warm and comfy winter blouses if sewn with the flannel side to the inside of the garment. Anyone done that??

JudyPete

P.S. If you go to the archives below and click on the archived page for April 15, you will see the "original" vintage mini-quilt upon which this one is based. That quilt now resides in the home of Judy in Ohio. You will also see a post by my wherein I show some of the vintage shirting fabrics ... a selection of samples by a local department store in the early part of the 20th century. Those samples are now in this quilt top. Only took my six and a half months from there to here. LOL