Decades-old finish!

Last year my friend Y. gave me this vintage quilt top found in a thrift shop.

The top measures about 39 by 48 inches.

It's machine pieced in a modified log cabin pattern,

with lots of fabrics from the 1960s, and even older.

You can see from this photo that it is wonky in places,

and not entirely squared off.

 

Last night I took the plunge,

trimmed the edges,

and lined the top with unbleached muslin

(also from the thrift shop, for the record)

and backed it with a piece of left over microfleece

 

 

Then I embraced the quilt's wonkiness,

and quilted in the middle of that sashing fabric with a variegated grey thread.

This created another grid in the quilt,

established in a little order in that wonkiness,

and put my own 2013 stamp on a very vintage quilt.

 

 I bound the quilt with a DS navy/blue/red/white floral print

and now it's done.

It's destined for a new baby coming this fall,

whose mother has grown up with thrift shop finds

and so I think she'll appreciate this quilt, which stretches back many decades.

I'm not an expert on dating fabrics,

but I like the huge variety in this quilt,

and the poverty piecing in some of the blocks,

including that salmon/black one in the middle.

Here's some more fun fabrics.

I like that geometric tan/brown/white/red print.

And I like that green and black print too.

These cats -- not so much.

I think that pink one with blue features looks deranged

and is strange enough to scare any baby.

But that floral print on the blue background is adorable.

 

Here's a shot of the back.

And the binding again

 

Thanks, Y., for sharing this top with me.

I had fun looking at the vintage fabrics,

and giving new life to a quilt waiting many decades for a finish.

 

I'm linking up with Sarah and Amanda.