My husband and I were watching a movie on the Friday evening of Mother’s Day weekend. (“The Mirror Has Two Faces”, with Barbra Streisand and Jeff Bridges) I, like many a quilter, really enjoy spotting quilts in movie set dressing.
I took a screenshot of this one. Here’s what I saw:
Normally, I’d not have made such a big deal about a quilt spotting, but this one was special. My Mom had picked up my love of quilts, and actually bought two while she was visiting the antique quilt gallery where I used to work. I’ve since inherited them…. And this quilt is quite like one of them. I don’t think I’ve seen one like it since she picked it out. Same block, same use of color, and same fancy fabrics!
Fun enough, but then on Sunday, Mother’s Day morning that is, I was scrolling along on Instagram, and came across this photo on the Vintage Blessings page, a shop specializing in vintage and antique textile items of all sorts:
I mean, really! My Mom came to spend Mother’s Day with me, don’t you think! Grin!
So I pulled hers out, draped it across the bentwood rocker she gave me on my 21st birthday.
You can see that hers is a bit different, with solid, embroidered squares as well at the 4-triangle squares. But the overall idea is the same. One funny thing about it is that, with all the velvet and brocade on the front, it is backed with a heavy, rough, dark grey wool blanket. Unusual choice, no?
I have not been able to locate a pattern name. This is close to a Kansas Dugout block, but they have four thicker bars around a smaller, solid square. I found one similar quilt, with the 4-triangle centers, called a modified Kansas Dugout on a blog called Exuberant Color. And I found a pattern by Karen Griska called Trellis that has the 4-triangle squares.
???? Do any of you know a name for this block ????
……And on a different topic, revisiting a previous post…
Margie wrote in with this comment on kapok fiber (in the batting of two Victorian crazy quilts):
One of my stitching friends commented: "The only time I heard of kapok was when I lived in South Sudan for a few months many years ago. It was fluffy material inside a large pod. People actually used it as toilet paper!"
So there you go. I bet you never imagined talking about toilet paper and quilts at the same time. I surely didn’t.
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