Look at these amazing foundation pieced pineapple blocks a sweet friend sent to me!
Funny how I didn't notice one block is different- only after I took a photo did it stand out!
It is also the only one with that light blue fabric.
The darker portion is toward the corners.
Love that pink print!
The next blocks seems to have a wide time span of fabrics.
The butterscotch, chrome yellow and poison green are a bit later then the shirtings. (I'm not an expert, so feel free to weigh in!)
Love! Love! Turkey red, yellow and green!
Be still my heart!
Love that grey print. I could see this being a shirt.
The back of 7 of the blocks. This is also on the front of some of the blocks too.
And then one fun primitively pieced block!
I'd love to know if you have any opinions on the dates of these.
Also, any thoughts as to how I could put them together.
Let's have an amazing week!
antique scrappy quilts should teach us all to be a bit less critical about our own work....the gray print looks like men's pajamas too...
ReplyDeleteI think that in the block with the blue fabric, she just added the corners to the dark sides of her octagon, instead of to the light sides. It could perhaps be fixed, but then it wouldn’t be “humble”. (Sorry I’m posting as Anonymous, but Google won’t let me log in.). Dot
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting! Yes, I really only meant to say it was different from the others.
DeleteVery fun and interesting! I'd be studying all the beautiful classic calicos and shirting used. I think you should make another, w your special Lori/ antique vibe talent and then set them 3x3 for a fun small quilt. Maybe a border, poison green print? Solid cheddar?
ReplyDeletePossibly a gentle wash when done? And how about no batting, just a binding, how can you cover up that great backing print.
Absolutely wonderful gift, loving the fabrics, and drooling over them.
ReplyDeleteYou have a much more experience in that area than I do. I am confident that you will find the perfect way to complete these. Looking forward to see what you do with them.
ReplyDeleteThe blocks are awesome, and a wonderful gift to you! I love that one is different from the others. I would have to do a lot of auditioning to decide what to do with them, but some sort of simple setting, and let the blocks shine!
ReplyDeleteWhat an absolutely fabulous post! All those wonderful close ups of the fabrics! Thank you, thank you, thank you. My thoughts on putting the blocks together are to bind each block potholder style and then whipstitch them together. Not an original idea, alas, but my hubby and I have a very old log cabin quilt made by his great grandmother and that's how she put her blocks together.
ReplyDeleteI wish some fabric company would reproduce those prints. Thanks again for such a great post.
I love that one block is "not like the others"! And I agree, those would be great prints to reproduce. Love the idea of a potholder style quilt, whipstitched together as Joan H suggested. Jan in MA
ReplyDeleteWhat a treasure! I had thoughts along the line of Lizzy D--make one more block and make a 3x3 quilt.
ReplyDeleteI'd guess third quarter of the 19th century for date of fabrics. I am not an expert - I have read quilt history books and Barbara Brackman's books on quilt fabrics, is all.
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