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Early Four Patch Crib Quilt

4/25/2017

 
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Presenting this early crib quilt, made during the 1840 - 50's period for a well loved (and lucky) baby. The small size of this quilt, and the combination of ordinary early dress prints and unusual large floral chintz prints, make this quilt an interesting study.
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The yellow chintz fabrics used in the plain squares and the borders brighten up and set off the four patches.
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Great fabrics!

While the pattern is a simple four patch, the fabrics that are used change this from the ordinary to the unusual, and lifting it into the realm of the rare, an early chintz crib quilt.
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Notice that the quilt maker used two different fabrics for the borders, a great chintz large print fabric with a deep yellow background on two of the borders, and another unusual floral fabric for the other two borders and alternate blocks.

This quilt is a good example and a reminder for us to use different scaled prints when reproducing early quilts.

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    Welcome to my blog, Antique Quilt Studies.

    As a collector of antique quilts for over 20 years I have come to love everything about these wonderful textiles.

    Studying antique quilts has turned into an all encompassing venture, ever widening my fields of interest into other quilt related items like antique fabrics, textile history books, and fabric sample books.

    I look forward to sharing some of the quilt history I've picked up along the way as well as some of the items from my collections.

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    Laurette Carroll

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