Vintage quilts 1930s patterns

Vintage Sampler MGD 514 - 758524372546

1930’s Triple Irish Chain Postage Stamp Quilt

Greetings! Today is a great day for a new bundle. This one is a combination of 1930s reproduction prints, some calicos, and other tiny florals and basics that create a perfect soft rainbow. There are so many wonderful things you can make with it! Let's get into it. (Unless you just want to shop now!) There are so many patterns I think would work well for this bundle, here are few I thought of. Let me know if you have other ideas! The free pattern Maggie Pearl by Penelope Handmade would be a…

While each decade is filled with new trends in quilting, the popularity of 1930s quilts and quilt patterns is still going strong almost a century later. Spanning the Great Depression, quilting trends from the 1930s were very much influenced by their time, with quilters favoring scrap quilts over spending money on expensive fabric. Pastel colors were also trending with quilters during this time and many saw the light colors in their quilts as a way to be uplifting during hard times. If you…

If you love vintage quilts and admire how they contain an incredible variety of fabrics, this book is for you. Gather your quilting friends and create your own Quilt Club. Together you can make super scrappy quilts the easy way! Sharing quilt blocks with friends is like adding extra helpings of scrappiness and happiness to your next project.Paula Barnes and Mary Ellen Robison, owners of the pattern company Red Crinoline Quilts, are known for their stunning quilts that often replicate…

More work on UFO's today. It was a bit cooler and I wasn't feeling real crash hot, so I thought I'd pull out my Old Fashioned Charm quilt an...

I had such fun using these 1930’s vintage reproduction fabrics for this quilt. They remind me of when I was young and my great grandmother died and I was given a large tin of her fabrics tha…

is finished. I decided to try and baste this little quilt on my design wall, which turned out to be quite successful! I used some 9 patch blocks that I had sitting on the drawer for a zillion years for the backing. It saved me buying fabric, and used up MORE stuff. I pieced this quilt, using one of the new methods I read about online. I joined 4 squares together...a 4 patch. I made two of these, the placed them right sides together. I sewed around the 4 edges, then cut diagonally through…

A few years ago i purchased a vintage quilt that i just love. It's totally scrappy, a bit tattered...but warm and snugly. And! A bit misleading when you look at it! It's made up of only 2 blocks...and not set on point! *Can you guess which blocks? *Answer: 4-Patch and Half Square Triangle blocks!...how easy is that? I decided it would be fun to write a freebie and share it in Christmas colors... Each block measures 2-1/2" Unfinished. Scrappy would be so easy to do....i know we all have lots…