You see one of my wonderful colleagues is a quilter. And she has quilter friends. And one day they decided to combine their excess and have a sale. And it was blissful. I bought quite a few things for very little money. Don' t hate me.
One of the things I came home with was a quilt that she had started in on. The tub said Aunt Grace (it also said $3.00) and it was full of 1930's reproductions. From what I can gather up, this was a line of fabric produced in the mid 1990's.
But as soon as I saw it, I wanted to "rescue" the quilt. I've always wanted to do a reproductionish quilt, you see? and so I thought it would be great for our bee....
As I went through the box:
I found some blocks already constructed....
I found some things sewed together...
I found quite a few squares already cut....
I found some triangles cut.....
I found some strips already cut....
and some larger chunks..
And only one piece with a readable selvedge...
and a couple of foreign coins and a Chuck E Cheese token. Bonus!
The already constructed blocks are between 5" and 6" square, so I'm going to put borders on them to make them 8" blocks.
I purchased a few yards of Kona Bone.
I'm sending packets of this out to one of my online quilting bees, and collectively we're going to rescue the quilt!
I can't wait to get the results back. I promise to show and tell.
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