My final post about International Quilt Festival 2021. This will show my purchases.
Having put myself on fabric restriction, I didn't look at or buy any fabric. The closets are full and begging for the "de-stash" process to begin.
Instead I bought thread. So now I am on "thread restriction" too. Superior is my thread of choice. This isn't all of it:
Always looking for more rulers/templates for ruler work, I bought these two. Now I am eager to try them out:
And I bought a book full of good quilting ideas for pieced blocks. Deciding what to quilt is the most challenging part for most of us--this will help:
That would have been enough for this trip but then I saw an antique quilt I really liked. It has two things I love in antiques--flying geese and LOTS of fabrics. The dealers are lovely people, Carolyn and Don Springer, Quilts from Mulberry Lane
The tag from the dealer said it was a Mennonite quilt, made by Ada Wadell of Carlisle, PA. It is 72" x 78" and in excellent condition. A quick search for Ada Wadell or Waddell in PA hasn't been successful yet but I'll keep looking. I grew up in PA and took a Girl Scout trip to Lancaster County, PA that first introduced me to quilts and started my passion for them:
Border quilting:
The rest of the quilting is two concentric circles with a few small stitches in the center of each:
Sometimes the geese change direction for no apparent reason:
Wonderful collection of old fabrics--she had a deep stash too, just like I do:
The back--three widths of this fabric, the middle one is 25.5" wide. The binding is the back turned over to the front:
The perfect addition to my small antique collection. This just might be my Next Lifetime Quilt!
Let's quilt.
Barbara
