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QUILT249 - Vintage Bluework Quilt with Nursery Ryhmes 1 of 2
Vintage Bluework Quilt with Nursery Ryhmes 1 of 2
Vintage Bluework Quilt with Nursery Rhymes
 
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One of two vintage Bluework quilts.  They were purchased in Pennsylvania, but tagged NJ 1925.  It measures 60 by 88 inches.  It has 24 blocks that measure about 8 inches square.  There is a 4.5 inch sashing in block cotton, a 4 inch wide border, a 4.25 inch white border and a .5 inch blue bias binding with in the scalloped edge.  The quilt is hand embroidered, machine pieced, and hand quilted at 10spi.  The embroidered blocks include Birds, Cat with a Fiddle, Tom the Piper’s Son, Flowers, Dutch Girl Waving Goodbye to a Ship, Jack and Jill, Girl baking, Girl. Feeding Chickens, Girl Kissing a Bird, Little Bo Peep, Rooster, Peter Rabbit, Boy with a Polar Bear, Humpty Dumpty, and more.  Three motifs are repeated.  It is quilted in each block in a radiating X pattern, in the sashing and blue border with a cross hatch pattern and a feather circle at each intersection.  The white border has a quilted chain motif.  There is a thin batting and a blue cotton backing.  Condition is good…some fading in the sashing and a bleach spot. 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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