"RETRO CLEAN" VINTAGE QUILT & COTTON CLEANER

I am NOT selling it. I am sorry about that. Rhea

If I keep saying *NOT* selling Retro Clean , that might clear it up after a few times. I have been reading you group for years and ask a few questions here and there. Lately I have been going to local auctions and picking up (rescuing) quilts for almost nothing. They are in need of some repair and are faded. I am a mother of two ( my youngest starts school this year). I am going back to college after a 15 year absence, in the fall. I have been quilting for a few years and make mostly baby quilts for family and friends. I do love chocolate ... any kind. Thank you Wendy for your nice response. I think it might be to good to be true. Rhea

I believe you too (that you arent selling anything) . Welcome to the group.. or re-welcome. :-) I havent used the product either, I just wanted to say that I think its great youre rescuing old quilts. Diana

Sounds pretty! I dont know what determines whether it should be finished or what but want to ask your help in aging a quilt top I found at an auction a few years ago. Here is its story. It was sitting in a pile of stuff to be thrown away along with an oval quilting hoop. Initially I mistook the hoop to be a chair back! Anyway, its a red, white and blue quilt in a pinwheel pattern. The material is a thin muslin type feeling stuff. The seam allowances are skimpy, coming apart in some places. Here comes the kicker. The daughter of the woman who made it lives next door to me now. I told her about the top but she seems totally uninterested in seeing it. NDNL *next door neighbor lady* is in her

70s, and so her mom had to have been .. oh.. lets guess, in her 20s when NDNL was born.. so the quilt would have had to have been made somewhere between 1920'-1990. That narrows it down a bit doesnt it? LOL I dont hold much hope you can date it but it was fun to get to tell the story of this quilt top. I still havent decided what to do with it, but my inclination is to finish and use it carefully hung on a wall, with reinforced seams. Trouble is, I havent a clue where to hang a red, white and blue quilt in my home! Anyway.. hope someone can help you figure out what your lovely sounding quilt is. Diana

The oval hoop might be a clue -does it have a manufacturer stamped inside? Seems like oval hoops are a bit more modern than round ones. I'm guessing about 1980. Of course, the fabrics could be any age before your cutoff date. Roberta in D

I'm sure LN could find a place for it in her house.....

(ducking and running!)

-- Dannielle from NY