Thank you! I love that you love this series! So many more quilts to come! 🥰 Absolutely! I couldn't have said it better. We can learn so much from these old beauties!
I love your enthusiasm for the old quilts. Hopefully someone is as excited about my quilts in 100 years as you are for these! You’re so great! Keep making these forever!
This by far my favorite series on TH-cam!!! I love that you take the time to carefully analyze and describe your vintage quilts and what their makers may have been thinking when they were constructing the quilts! I love vintage quilts and have collected many throughout the years from estate and yard sales as well as antique shops! I have learned so much from you sharing your collection and thoughts with us!!! Thank you so very much for rescuing these beautiful treasures! I love your channel and always look forward to seeing what you have in store for us in your next video!❤😊
My first thought was: "there aren't enough ties!" The backing fabric looks very 60's to me because of the colors. The wide sashing makes this quilt really unique. All in all, a very nice score for $20. I'd love to see your finished repair.
Good eye! I wonder what the condition would be if there were more ties. It is so floppy. Most ties would have helped a lot. As for the backing, I couldn't find any examples of that print in the 60s, but I am sure it is possible. I can't wait to finish the quilt. Now to find the time! 😆 Thanks so much for watching and sharing your thoughts on this one!
I think it's put together in late 60's ! Than green and gold ! I still don't care for avocado green! 😂 It would have been better if more ties though. I love the top and its not too bad to repair! ! Fabrics are late 40's imo without a closer look. 🎉
Your passion and joy working with these old quilts is so much fun to watch .. it makes me want to go out and scour the countryside to find oldies to send to you just for fun .. you are a pleasure to watch .. ❤❤❤
I know I love finding quilts like that. Finding hidden gems like these. Haven't been garage sailing much in the past few years. So I can only count 2. But also saved one of my great grandmothers quilts in direr need of repair.
My idea… could you pull that entire quilt apart saving the small blocks and remake it using your own fabric but their measurements (copying their wide sashing etc). That way you would have the old quilt YOUR fresh fabric! I think that would be cool! Good find
Your parents are keeping you in mind when they go out to antique stores! I do like the pattern. Some look like bats! Thank you for showing us this quilt, Kris! It makes me think it would be great for camping. Take care. Marion in Oregon.🎪🎪
Love the lessons on the old quilts. Makes you realise your quilts don't have to be perfect. I made a quilt recently for a friend and had trouble with a few biased sides that gave me grief. Gave it to her and she loved it. After watching your lessons on the quilts I always wonder about the maker. Desley
Yay! I am so happy to hear this! To me, that's what is all about. We are too hard on ourselves, especially for something that brings us so much joy and fun! ❤️ Thank you so much!
Kris, I love your focus of honoring the maker as you decide what is best for the quilt! I’ve found several “orphan” quilt tops in the last few months while shopping at antique stores, and I always think to myself, “I have to finish what this quilter started.” It’s so amazing to think how generations of quilters are connected when modern quilters finish or repurpose antique quilts and quilt tops! 🥰
Awww! Thank you so much! I hadn't thought about us, as quilters, being connected like that through the generations, but it is true! Thank you for watching and for this insight. ❤️
I love this series! Even with all the technology we have available, the real basis of quilting - putting fabrics together, creating warmth for the user - isn’t as different as folks might want to believe. Every quilt has a story, a maker, and hopefully a user. The way you look for the details that show the intent of the maker is helpful. If that sashing fabric is unusable, I hope you find something similarly toned. That combination of the colorful blocks against that almost militaresque background brings to my mind the stories my mother (b. 1946) told us of growing up after WWII; the bright spots re-entering the culture after the dreary years of the war.
Thank you so much! I love that you love this series! I love making these videos, too! That's a great idea! I have been so busy that I haven't done anything with this quilt yet. I hope to this week. Love the idea of adding new-ish wide sashing. Thank you!
I love seeing your quilt finds. Regrettably I have an eye that instantly spots out of alignments (my tile man will attest to this). So the first thing I saw were the blocks out of alignment, but charmingly, endearingly so.
Hi Kris - love this series. Very interesting quilt and completely agree with your ‘lessons’! ❤ I’ve been making this block and had found another name for it, Buckeye Beauty. Been using it as a scrap buster after a strip pieced light and dark Irish Chain. Using a common background on all the HST’s. Measurements are perfect for using up 2” strips into matching pairs of four patches and 4” squares for two at a time HST’s. Trim to 3.5”; blocks are 6.5” unfinished. Love this block!
Growing up we had a quilt with almost the same shade of green for the background. It was finished in '61 or '62, I venture to guess the color was popular in 50's maybe? Beautiful quilt!!
Love this content and I am so glad to hear there are more to come! I was amazed that this quilt even made it to you more or less intact as many would have thrown it away a long time ago. I look forward to seeing what you decide to do with it. As far as tying is concerned, I have several tied quilts and really like the technique myself. In my husband's family, part of the wedding shower includes putting a quilt on the frames and tying it as we visit, watch the bride open gifts, take a break with refreshments, etc. My daughter still has her wedding quilt (married over 20 years) and I will admit, it was made with what we call the "flip" method that you called the envelope fold. I used this method recently on a Jelly Roll Race quilt and tied it rather than had it quilted. I also have a fabulously scrappy tied quilt gifted to me by my husband's aunt (and my dear friend) made with 1280 2 1/2 inch (finished) squares. The squares are set 40x32 and is tied with yarn in every intersection of the squares. Plenty of ties in this quilt! We have had it many years and it gets washed regularly, 3 or 4 times a year. It is a favorite at our house, especially since the maker has since passed away. I also have a tied quilt from his grandmother to me made from that same aunt's dress fabrics! It is backed with silk and it will warm up my feet in the winter faster than anything. Thanks again for your great content!
My pleasure! So glad you like this! I, too, love tied quilts and have many! There are so many ways to make a quilt. I think we need to bring tying back for good! Thank you so much for sharing! This is wonderful!
Kris, i love this series! I love that your parents are on the lookout for you! This quilt reminds me of childhood vacations in northern wisconsin at a cabin on a lake. In the late 60s -early 70s we had quilts that were hand tied - it may have been the thing? Looking forward to see what you do with it!
I enjoyed this tutorial. The fabric is very quaint and obviously old. It is very informational and fun to watch. You are very enthusiastic, and I can appreciate that, but you talk really fast. You do show your excitement with each tutorial, but you could slow down a bit so I don't miss any details.
Thanks so much for your kind words. I do talk fast. I am not sure how to change that without changing my personality. This may help, however: Did you know you can slow down and/or speed up videos? Click on the little gear at the bottom of the screen next to the CC symbol and change the Playback Speed. Hope this helps!
Love when you show us vintage quilts. Guess the quilt police wouldn’t appreciate them, but I agree with you, they are beautiful. Thank for sharing your fantastic finds with us.
Love that you have a series on old quilts! You know a lot of time and effort went into this! Love it. I love that they made such a wide sashing, made the blocks go futher.
After seeing this quilt and knowing what happened to it because of this or this I am wondering if all the 'quilt rules' came about because of certain failures of the past. I like this quilt but then I don't. The unevenness of the squares would bother me and that backing! hmmm. Is tying a quilt just as good as quilting it? I'm not sure. Maybe necessity in the past had people tying quilts because they didn't have access to a sewing machine or some other reason but does that make it any better than sewing them together when we can? After pondering all this I have decided that things of the past aren't necessarily better than what we do now, just different because we have many more quilting gadgets such as rulers etc. and we have choices. I enjoy learning about antique quilts and what went on with them. Always food for thought. Thanks Kris.
Great insight! I love reading your thought process. I know exactly what you mean. As for tying, I think if it is done well, it is a great way to finish a quilt, especially if the maker lacks the ability or resources to quilt it. I heard something the other day that makes sense. The quilt police are bossy and have a you-have-to-do-it-my-way but quilting advice is different. It gives you the tools you need to be successful with the reasoning why behind it. I hope that makes sense. She said it much better than I just did! 😆
@@SewtheDistance Yes absolutely. So all the rules aside, they are just a bit of helpful advice, quilting in the end is very much a personal choice. Depends on our knowledge of sewing, tools and fabric available etc. So I guess all there is to it is... just do it and enjoy the process. Have fun sewinging everyone. That's what I say because I'm just an ordinary sewer loving my thing.
It isn't. It is cotton, but it is so dry rotted. I am hoping to save some of it. We will see. I am not sure if I will hand quilt it or machine quilt it. I will, however, fulfill my promise that I mentioned at the end of the video (the last lesson). That you can be sure of. This old quilt deserves to be saved one way or another. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Here's a link to the blog on this one: www.sewthedistance.com/blog/lessons-from-old-northern-lights-scrap-quilt
Love this series. Nothing illustrates the real “rules” of quilting better than a close look at an actual vintage quilt.
Thank you! I love that you love this series! So many more quilts to come! 🥰
Absolutely! I couldn't have said it better. We can learn so much from these old beauties!
I love your enthusiasm for the old quilts. Hopefully someone is as excited about my quilts in 100 years as you are for these! You’re so great! Keep making these forever!
Thank you so much! I plan to make them as long as I can. I have so many more to share and they just keep finding me. 😆
This by far my favorite series on TH-cam!!! I love that you take the time to carefully analyze and describe your vintage quilts and what their makers may have been thinking when they were constructing the quilts! I love vintage quilts and have collected many throughout the years from estate and yard sales as well as antique shops! I have learned so much from you sharing your collection and thoughts with us!!! Thank you so very much for rescuing these beautiful treasures! I love your channel and always look forward to seeing what you have in store for us in your next video!❤😊
Wow, wow, wow! Thank you SO MUCH! You are so kind! I love that you love this series! I have so many more quilts to come! Can't wait to share them. 🥰
Dont care if its rough you still got a beautiful old quilt.
Absolutely! You and me both! Can't wait to see it repurposed!
Love, love, love the fabrics in this quilt❤❤❤❤❤❤
My first thought was: "there aren't enough ties!" The backing fabric looks very 60's to me because of the colors. The wide sashing makes this quilt really unique. All in all, a very nice score for $20. I'd love to see your finished repair.
Good eye! I wonder what the condition would be if there were more ties. It is so floppy. Most ties would have helped a lot. As for the backing, I couldn't find any examples of that print in the 60s, but I am sure it is possible. I can't wait to finish the quilt. Now to find the time! 😆 Thanks so much for watching and sharing your thoughts on this one!
I think it's put together in late 60's ! Than green and gold ! I still don't care for avocado green! 😂 It would have been better if more ties though. I love the top and its not too bad to repair! ! Fabrics are late 40's imo without a closer look. 🎉
I love this series. Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome! So glad you love this! I love sharing these old beauties, too. ❤️
Your passion and joy working with these old quilts is so much fun to watch .. it makes me want to go out and scour the countryside to find oldies to send to you just for fun .. you are a pleasure to watch .. ❤❤❤
Thank you so much! I just LOVE them!
Maybe try to incorporate a teal material with the blocks you can save to try to recreate the look. I really like the floating look also.
That's a great idea. I will definitely do that if it usable and not dry-rotted. I will keep you updated. I love that floating look, too.
I know I love finding quilts like that. Finding hidden gems like these. Haven't been garage sailing much in the past few years. So I can only count 2. But also saved one of my great grandmothers quilts in direr need of repair.
Oh, I love that you saved your grandmother's quilts! Wonderful!
My idea… could you pull that entire quilt apart saving the small blocks and remake it using your own fabric but their measurements (copying their wide sashing etc). That way you would have the old quilt YOUR fresh fabric! I think that would be cool! Good find
Great idea! Love that! Thank you!
Lovely old quilt. Glad you are caring for it.🎉
Thank you! 😊
Your parents are keeping you in mind when they go out to antique stores! I do like the pattern. Some look like bats! Thank you for showing us this quilt, Kris! It makes me think it would be great for camping. Take care. Marion in Oregon.🎪🎪
Thanks, Marion! It does look like bats! Oh my goodness! I may have to try making something like that. Thanks so much!
Love the lessons on the old quilts. Makes you realise your quilts don't have to be perfect. I made a quilt recently for a friend and had trouble with a few biased sides that gave me grief. Gave it to her and she loved it. After watching your lessons on the quilts I always wonder about the maker. Desley
Yay! I am so happy to hear this! To me, that's what is all about. We are too hard on ourselves, especially for something that brings us so much joy and fun! ❤️ Thank you so much!
Kris, I love your focus of honoring the maker as you decide what is best for the quilt! I’ve found several “orphan” quilt tops in the last few months while shopping at antique stores, and I always think to myself, “I have to finish what this quilter started.” It’s so amazing to think how generations of quilters are connected when modern quilters finish or repurpose antique quilts and quilt tops! 🥰
Awww! Thank you so much! I hadn't thought about us, as quilters, being connected like that through the generations, but it is true! Thank you for watching and for this insight. ❤️
I love this series! Even with all the technology we have available, the real basis of quilting - putting fabrics together, creating warmth for the user - isn’t as different as folks might want to believe. Every quilt has a story, a maker, and hopefully a user. The way you look for the details that show the intent of the maker is helpful.
If that sashing fabric is unusable, I hope you find something similarly toned. That combination of the colorful blocks against that almost militaresque background brings to my mind the stories my mother (b. 1946) told us of growing up after WWII; the bright spots re-entering the culture after the dreary years of the war.
Thank you so much! I love that you love this series! I love making these videos, too!
That's a great idea! I have been so busy that I haven't done anything with this quilt yet. I hope to this week. Love the idea of adding new-ish wide sashing. Thank you!
Love this series and love listening to Kris-any time😊
Oh, thank you so much! You are so sweet! ❤️
I love seeing your quilt finds. Regrettably I have an eye that instantly spots out of alignments (my tile man will attest to this). So the first thing I saw were the blocks out of alignment, but charmingly, endearingly so.
Love your old quilt videos. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! I love making these videos, too! Can't wait to share more!
Hi Kris - love this series. Very interesting quilt and completely agree with your ‘lessons’! ❤ I’ve been making this block and had found another name for it, Buckeye Beauty. Been using it as a scrap buster after a strip pieced light and dark Irish Chain. Using a common background on all the HST’s. Measurements are perfect for using up 2” strips into matching pairs of four patches and 4” squares for two at a time HST’s. Trim to 3.5”; blocks are 6.5” unfinished. Love this block!
Love it! Great idea!
So happy you love this series. Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your ideas!
Great quilt, great tips. TFS
Great guiding question re what needs to happen to keep it from a dumpster, and that honors the original maker. So true!
Thank you! I try to think about that stuff.
@@SewtheDistance me too. I'll buy a thing to 'save it from some bad fate' but then don't know what to do with it, lol.
Oooo, that green! ❤️
Growing up we had a quilt with almost the same shade of green for the background. It was finished in '61 or '62, I venture to guess the color was popular in 50's maybe? Beautiful quilt!!
Yes! I think so! I love that you had a quilt with this color in it. Thank you so much for sharing and for watching. ❤️
Love this content and I am so glad to hear there are more to come! I was amazed that this quilt even made it to you more or less intact as many would have thrown it away a long time ago. I look forward to seeing what you decide to do with it. As far as tying is concerned, I have several tied quilts and really like the technique myself. In my husband's family, part of the wedding shower includes putting a quilt on the frames and tying it as we visit, watch the bride open gifts, take a break with refreshments, etc. My daughter still has her wedding quilt (married over 20 years) and I will admit, it was made with what we call the "flip" method that you called the envelope fold. I used this method recently on a Jelly Roll Race quilt and tied it rather than had it quilted. I also have a fabulously scrappy tied quilt gifted to me by my husband's aunt (and my dear friend) made with 1280 2 1/2 inch (finished) squares. The squares are set 40x32 and is tied with yarn in every intersection of the squares. Plenty of ties in this quilt! We have had it many years and it gets washed regularly, 3 or 4 times a year. It is a favorite at our house, especially since the maker has since passed away. I also have a tied quilt from his grandmother to me made from that same aunt's dress fabrics! It is backed with silk and it will warm up my feet in the winter faster than anything. Thanks again for your great content!
My pleasure! So glad you like this!
I, too, love tied quilts and have many! There are so many ways to make a quilt. I think we need to bring tying back for good!
Thank you so much for sharing! This is wonderful!
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
Kris, i love this series! I love that your parents are on the lookout for you! This quilt reminds me of childhood vacations in northern wisconsin at a cabin on a lake. In the late 60s -early 70s we had quilts that were hand tied - it may have been the thing? Looking forward to see what you do with it!
Thank you so much! ❤️
Thank you so sharing! Love that this brings back memories.
Wow wonderful old quilt, great find on your parents part.
Thank you! 😊 I think so, too!
Love this series so much!
Yay! Thank you! So happy to hear this! ❤️ Many more quilts to come!
Excited to see what you come up with for this beauty.
Yay! I can't wait to share!
❤ love watching, can’t wait to see it re done x
Thank you! This is a cool one for sure! ❤️ Can't wait to share!
I love seeing these old quilts. I too love vintage quilts and enjoy repairing and preserving my old family quilts. Thank you for your series.
My pleasure! So happy to hear you love doing it, too! It is fun, isn't it?
There is value in any quilt! Just the hours to sew, plan, put together!!
Very true! 🥰
Thank you for your wonderful channel ❤️😁🌹
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching!
I enjoyed this tutorial. The fabric is very quaint and obviously old. It is very informational and fun to watch. You are very enthusiastic, and I can appreciate that, but you talk really fast. You do show your excitement with each tutorial, but you could slow down a bit so I don't miss any details.
Thanks so much for your kind words.
I do talk fast. I am not sure how to change that without changing my personality. This may help, however: Did you know you can slow down and/or speed up videos? Click on the little gear at the bottom of the screen next to the CC symbol and change the Playback Speed. Hope this helps!
Love when you show us vintage quilts. Guess the quilt police wouldn’t appreciate them, but I agree with you, they are beautiful. Thank for sharing your fantastic finds with us.
The quilt police need to relax. 😆
Thank you so much! I love that you love this series. I love making these videos, too!
Love that you have a series on old quilts! You know a lot of time and effort went into this! Love it. I love that they made such a wide sashing, made the blocks go futher.
Yay! So happy you love this series! So much fun to see what others have done.
YES! Perfect way to extend quilt blocks. Thank you so much!
Great old quilt and it deserves a new life. Can't wait to see what you do with it. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! Thank you so much for watching!
I agree--it deserves to be saved. ❤️
The quilt is wonderful and is fortunate to have found our home. The fabric used in each block are quite something and unique❤
Thank you so much! I will do my best to honor the maker.
Love looking at all that wonderful fabric. It is fabulous, isn't it?
After seeing this quilt and knowing what happened to it because of this or this I am wondering if all the 'quilt rules' came about because of certain failures of the past. I like this quilt but then I don't. The unevenness of the squares would bother me and that backing! hmmm. Is tying a quilt just as good as quilting it? I'm not sure. Maybe necessity in the past had people tying quilts because they didn't have access to a sewing machine or some other reason but does that make it any better than sewing them together when we can? After pondering all this I have decided that things of the past aren't necessarily better than what we do now, just different because we have many more quilting gadgets such as rulers etc. and we have choices. I enjoy learning about antique quilts and what went on with them. Always food for thought. Thanks Kris.
Great insight! I love reading your thought process. I know exactly what you mean. As for tying, I think if it is done well, it is a great way to finish a quilt, especially if the maker lacks the ability or resources to quilt it. I heard something the other day that makes sense. The quilt police are bossy and have a you-have-to-do-it-my-way but quilting advice is different. It gives you the tools you need to be successful with the reasoning why behind it. I hope that makes sense. She said it much better than I just did! 😆
@@SewtheDistance Yes absolutely. So all the rules aside, they are just a bit of helpful advice, quilting in the end is very much a personal choice. Depends on our knowledge of sewing, tools and fabric available etc. So I guess all there is to it is... just do it and enjoy the process. Have fun sewinging everyone. That's what I say because I'm just an ordinary sewer loving my thing.
There is so much to learn about these old quilts. What do you do with them after you restore them?
That's a great question! They are all over my house. 😆 I can't seem to part with any of them. 😀
Is the green sashing like gauze? If you were to remake it, considering its age, with new sashing would you machine or hand quilt it?
It isn't. It is cotton, but it is so dry rotted. I am hoping to save some of it. We will see. I am not sure if I will hand quilt it or machine quilt it. I will, however, fulfill my promise that I mentioned at the end of the video (the last lesson). That you can be sure of. This old quilt deserves to be saved one way or another. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
To me, the backing appears to be a Mexican serape look, popular in the 70s.
Oh, interesting! I hadn't thought of that! Thank you!
Dont care if its rough you still got a beautiful old quilt for $20. Repurpose the blocks.