Maintenance and Project History
History & Provenance
- Work by: unknown
- Date made: circa 1950. Fabrics range from 1920-1950’s.
- Ownership History:
- David Bailey – From October 24, 2022
- Vendor – To October 24, 2022
- Documented by owner.
Overall Size:
- Length: 82 3/4″
- Width: 71 1/2″
Top:
- Fabrics
- Cotton
- Prints / Solids: Prints appear to be predominantly from the 1930’s. Some fabrics may originate in the 1950’s.
- Shirting / Likely some feedsack
- White
- General Organization: Grid
- Grid Dimensions: There are 8 columns of flowers each made from 7 hexagons. 4 columns are set with a half-drop. There are 60 total full flowers and at the edges there are 8 flowers that only present 2 hexagons each. Flowers are separated by white background fabric pieced as hexagons.
- Block Name: The block is a hexagon that has been set in a variation of a Honeycomb pattern. This setting does not strictly adhere to the published patterns listed by Brackman.
The closest pattern appears to be pattern 160n – Honeycomb – because of the number of rings around the central hexagon. The quilt’s pattern has a center of yellow with 1 ring of prints surrounded by a path of white. Pattern 160n has these three layers. Pattern 160g only had two layers.
Grandmother’s flower garden is a closely related pattern but requires an additional ring of color. I mentioned the Grandmother’s flower garden here because variations of that setting specified yellow centers and a white path around the flowers. - Hexagons are 3″ edge-to-edge and 3 3/8″ point-to-point.
- Techniques: Patchwork
- Stitching Method: Hand
Back
- Fabrics
- Cotton
- Solids
- Predominant Colors: White
- Seamed Yardage with one seam down the center of the quilt. The width of this fabric from the seam to the edges are 36 3/8 and 41.” The seam is likely has a 1/4-1/2″ allowance and the front-to-back binding is 1/2″ on the front with negligible fabric for the thickness of the batting.
- Stitching Method: Machine
Layering and Stabilization
- Batting Type:
- Cotton
- Low Loft
- Stitching Method: Hand
- Stitching Patterns: Quilting lines form a grid patterns that run perpendicular to each edge of the hexagon so that three lines intersect in the middle of each hexagon. This forms a grid of triangles. Each triangle overlaps 3 hexagons. I did not observe any quilting that ran in or parallel to the ditch to stabilize the seams.
Edging
- Size
- Front: 1/2″
- Style: Back to Front by hand.
Workmanship / Condition
- Original Piecing
- Very Good
- Original Setting
- Very Good
- Original Quilting
- Very Good
- Restoration or repair work.
- No observable work done or needed.
Appraisal
- No