ANTIQUE PICKLE DISH QUILT

I was looking for my little flag quilt this morning so I could put a photograph of it in my blog in honor of our Independence Day celebration on July 4th. It is hiding from me somewhere. Instead I took a picture of this antique red, white & blue Pickle Dish quilt. The pattern is sometimes called Indian Wedding Ring. I was going to ask a quilt appraiser to do an appraisal for me several years ago but she was overwhelmed with quilts at the retreat I went to. I opted to have another quilt done when she said she could only do one that night. The only quick info she gave me on this was that it was probably from 1900 to 1910 and the pieces were smaller than she was used to seeing in this design. The quilt is in good condition. It has the same off-white fabric from the front as backing. It is nicely hand quilted. I am going to offer this quilt for sale for the same price I paid for it about 15 years ago and that is $400.00. If you are interested, please let me know. I have been slowly letting my antique quilts go since we down sized in house size. I just can't keep every quilt I would like to.
I have finally finished the machine stitching on the Circuit Rider blocks. Here are pictures of what I finished since my last post.
There are two more rose blocks just like the one below. Since they are duplicates, I have left two out of the line up. There were five of these in the original quilt. I opted to do the four for the four corners and selected another block to use within the quilt.




Had to do some hand embroidery on the Bible block. It is the only pieced block in the quilt. It is a combination of piecing and applique.
Now to lay all the blocks out and decide what is going where and sew it together. I will post a photo after I get it together. I am going with no border like the original. The raw edge applique method is certainly faster than hand applique but the machine stitching can be slow going on blocks with lots of curves. I am glad to get that part done.

I went to the local quilt shop today to purchase fabric for two more of the quilts using the painted blocks my husband's grandmother has made many years ago. I hope to get one put together very quickly. That is what I will be working on this weekend. I couldn't get the same exact fabrics that I used on the previous two but got something similar.

Have a wonderful holiday weekend if you are celebrating Independence Day! Come back for another visit soon.

Karen