Rediscovered treasure!

I put an old box in storage and quickly forgot about it.  Ever happen to you?

Recently I decided to stop paying for a storage unit, so I needed to clean it out and move all my stuff to our house.  In some stolen spare moments I have been going through what was in my storage unit to get rid of some and to organize the rest.  I stumbled upon an old dirty beat up box and couldn't for the life of me remember what was inside and why I would save such a beat up box.  Then I opened it...

What is this pile of fabric scraps?!?!  Can you guess?

Yes, they are cut-out pieces for a quilt top from vintage fabrics dating from the 1930's to 1940's.  I found this treasure hidden away is a dirty old box at a flea market a few years ago and had big plans for making these pieces into a quilt.  Well, as you can see those big plans haven't quite happened yet.  The cut out pieces I bought are only the center square and the "star points" of the block (does anyone know the name of this block?).  Luckily there were a few finished blocks, so I knew what they should look like.  I will have to take one of the finished blocks apart to make the patterns for the white pieces.  I bought white fabric to finish cutting out these pieces and just need to actually do it.  It will be a big project, once I am able to get to it, but I wanted to post some images of the vintage fabric eye candy.

For some quilting inspiration check out Moonstitches Flickr images of the Tokyo International Quilt Festival.  Some really amazing stuff.  One of my favorites is this beauty.

Comments

[nancy]

wow! that is treasure indeed. I'm not sure what size the blocks are, but there is a tutorial on the purl bee for a sawtooth star block like those, if you want to see how they do it (and maybe avoid cutting up what you've got there, if the dimensions are the same)

[dolin]

hi nancy,

thanks for the tip and providing me with the name of the block. i will check out purl bee. i need to learn the names some of the basic quilt blocks.

-dolin