Thursday, November 6, 2008

Vintage Thursday Thingie: Vintage Leaf Quilt

This is a vintage applique quilt from the late 1940s in the Leaf pattern with an unusual center medallion of three "leafy" flowers. I love the variety of fabrics, including feed sacks in the leaves.

It is hand appliqued and hand quilted in an overall diamond pattern and around the applique leaves and stem.


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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW it's stunning...I adore vintage quilts!!

Eileen said...

That leaf pattern is one of my favorites. :-) Thanks for showing this beauty today.

Ulla said...

Your beautiful quilt is a real treasure. Think of all the hours spent to make this quilt!

SUMMERSTEAD said...

Amazing quilt!

Unknown said...

This is just beautiful; I love all of the different fabrics in the leaves, also.

grace said...

That is really, really lovely. Do you use it?

Susan said...

I like how vintage 1940 fabric all seems to blend so well. Beautiful quilt. Thanks for sharing.

Coloradolady said...

Oh, what a wonderful quilt. I love all the different fabric patterns in the leaves. Great item for today.

Carrie said...

What a lovely quilt...the leaves are in such pretty fabrics.

Miri said...

Grace, we don't use this quilt but we do use the vintage Tumbling Blocks quilt I posted about earlier.

Roslyn said...

I always covet vintage/antique quilts. Of course I love this one & I just received a 30's/40's hand pieced top to longarm from a lady whose Grandma left it behind.I would love to live long enough to get caught up, lol!
Roslyn

Amy said...

That's beautiful! I could never make something like that!

JEWELGIRL said...

What a beautiful naturalistic quilt,
love the leaf pattern!