Help with quilt ID, please?

How precious to have a photo of your great-grandmother. That's wonderful. Can't help you with the i.d. Of course, I only recognize 9-patch and log cabin so I didn't expect to be much help. Polly

What an interesting looking quilt! I sent the link to a quilt historian friend and will let you know her comments and suggestions.

Mary

Sunny wrote:

Hee hee! I was looking at the picture and DH came up behind me and asked "Why do those old pictures always make women appear scarey beyond all reason? Whozzat?" So I explained. He examined the quilt in the pic and said, "It looks to me like a sea breeze pattern with that baseball and bat pattern we saw at the craft fair worked into it." I looked at him, and he looked back, and then he got such a look on his face! He left the room muttering something about overexposure to quilts and sewing, and how maybe he should take up motorcycles or something.

I flipped though the Carrie Hall book, and then compared what I found to the Brackman book. It very much looks like a slightly modified Square and Compass block. The resemblance is clearer in the Carrie Hall book where the triangles are divided in two. With that version all you have to do is simplify the circles and you have it. It probably has its very own name when done that way, though I don't know it.

I told DH to make a bronze dagger or cloak pin or something. Forging bronze should give him that testosterone lift he seems to think he needs. Besides, we can't afford a motorcycle. (G)

NightMist

No kidding. I think it's the way the dress and the posture makes her look like a samurai warrior. You just know she thought scissors are for wimps and preferred to cut her fabric with a three-foot-long Heian-dynasty sword.

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This was the point in my own journey when I realized, "If you can't beat 'em (much less understand 'em) - join 'em!" and decided that the only way I was going to survive all this was to take an interest in the design aspects of wilting - I mean QUilting... It's worked out quite well for us, and it's also only fair. When I was heavily into model railroading, she wanted to be part of that, and took an interest in some of the scenery modeling aspects I wasn't all that talented at. I play (at) guitar - she plays banjo. In short, when one partner or the other takes an interest in something that consumes a LOT of time, we have the choice of becomming a _____-widow/er and

*complaining* about it (notice I refrained from the "B" synonym), or finding a way to share the pain... er... interest.

(((Sunny))) - No offense, but... YEESH! I gotta go with NightMist's other half on this one; by any chance was Elzady from Transylvania? As a historical note, the reason people never seemed to smile in very old photographs is that in the early days of photography subjects would often have to pose completely motionless for up to several minutes, which isn't easy when you're trying to hold a smile. Mouths would come out blurred, which looked really strange and spooky. As technology improved, people's (especially older folks') impressions/ habits took longer to catch up (my mother passed away never having owned a color tv because she still believed they leaked "dangerous" radiation, but I digress...)

I have no idea what the name of the square (if it had one) might be. Again, no offense, but could the circles have been appliqued to conceal where the corners of the blocks came (or didn't come) together? I find myself fascinated by the abundance of what looks to me like mattress/pillow ticking, old tablecloth & curtain fabric, etc. This doesn't surprise me; I'm aware of the historical reasons for that as well. The last time I visited my aunt in AZ, she showed me a quilt top that my grandmother had made. It appeared to be made almost entirely from old bed sheets - some dyed for color - all pastels - and a lot of large applique patches (rather than piecing). Aunt wanted DW to "finish" the quilt, but we declined, as the fabric seemed so old we were concerned that it would disintigrate with any more sewing/quilting/washing... so we suggested she take it to her local quilting guild for better assessment/advice. A book could be written about the incredible talent, wisdom, and kindness in my grandmothers third-grade-educated hands. I will always miss (but remember) her.

Ok, time to stop rambling when I begin waxing maudlin...

Doc Smith

He can have my Harley V-ROD Muscle. DH got it for me for Valentine's Day, or perhaps he needs an exciting career as a Game Warden. Ours go missing all the time. 'They say' the gators are an endangered species. Yeah, right. Are you feeling any better this morning? Polly

"NightMist" I was looking at the picture and DH came up behind me and asked "Why

And here are her remarks:

This is a quilt Barbara Brackman hasn't even ID'ed. She does have a circle with both horizontal and vertical bars, unnamed but Jonathan Holstein is listed as source. It seems a crazy in the background. There are a couple of 4-patches that are close. The block with stripes near her head 3 of the

4 blocks are almost Brackman's 1228: Merry England Nancy Cabot 1935 but that is stretching it. Definitely an original but crazy comes the closest. I don't know of any organization that has a circle with a bar through it.

I'm with you, Polly. I can recognize patterns, but remembering their names is something else entirely. This one I don't even recognize, but how wonderful to have that photo!

Careful how you talk! A Harley might put the notion in his head to call on you!

I feel better in the morning, but the longer I stay up the owier I get. I found a number for Dr. Hottie, but I got an automated message that directed me to the clinic. Apparently they have put him in charge there. At least I know who to complain to if they prescribe eardrops for this.

NightMist

not a clue..but very interesting. i had a notion that maybe it was "designed" that way because she only had red strips left over. or part of a name of the ranch/farm they were on...(circle red ranch)...i dunno...very cool pic tho.

amy in CNY

(don't mind me..i need more coffee)