It’s the first day of the Dust off a quilt book blog hop
(the Pasture QAL block will be a week delayed)
Everyone participating are supposed to look on their bookshelves and find an old book and make something from the book, maybe they like a design, maybe the colors, or maybe just some applique? We all have those books and flip thru them now and think -wow, what were they thinking back then, it’s ugly but maybe it would look great in different colors or a different size or layout OR maybe you flip thru and think, I’ve always wanted to make THIS ONE, now is the chance!? Whichever way works.
I will have a giveaway for the OLDEST book (doesn’t have to be the inspiration book but just somewhere in the post) AND I’ll do the same for blog hoppers too, tell me what year your oldest quilt book was published! Stay tuned for that info in my Friday post 🙂
Here’s the bloggers participating
March 6th
Natalie (on Beaquilter)- never emailed me 🙁
March 7th
March 8th
March 9th
March 10th
Have fun hopping around!
Good morning! Thank you for hosting! I emailed you but I wanted to drop a line here as well to let you know that I have been left off of today’s list. Please let me know if I will be added asap today, or just given another day. Thanks!
I see Cheree told you that you left her blog off your list (The Morning Latte). I have lots of old quilting books, but one shows 1983 as the copywrite date (Quiltmaker’s Big Book of 12″ Block Patterns by Catherine Anthony & Libby Lehman). I have plenty more older books in the basement (late 1970’s-80’s). I have a quilt magazine (gift from my stepfather) that is from the mid 1970’s. I don’t think there are many quilt books before 1975-76, since that is when (at least in America) quilting got it’s ‘re-start’ due to the bicentennial.
It depends on what you mean by many! My oldest one is from the 30s, but I don’t have it with me. I have magazine articles from the 1880s. Yes, 19th century quilting! =) Quilting was around and healthy long before our current “revival” for the Bicentennial! My mother and grandmother were prolific quilters. It was transmitted by your relatives and your friends and at quilting bees, which really did take place as described in several books, such as The Quilters (1977), also made into a play. History is a wonderful thing to study.
I have personally been quilting since the age of 19, late 1960s, before my son was born. Ruby Short McKim published a great pattern book in 1931 and you can still buy it now in paperback on Amazon, or see the family site. Other names to look for are Carrie Hall and Rose Kretsinger (1935). More modern quilt historians include Barbara Brackman, Marikay Waldvogel, Bets Ramsey, Averil Colby, and Patsy and Myron Orlafsky. And there are more. This barely scratches the surface. Have fun exploring history!
aww I’d love to see it
Great start today!
Yeah, let the fun begin! Thank you for hosting this fun challenge ;))
Hi, I am privileged to have a book with the “Copyright 1942, The Spool Cotton Company”. The title of the book is “Quilts Patchwork Applique Quilting”. “Book No. 190 Price 10 cents”.
cool! I’ll have the giveaway Friday, enter then, but that’s OLD! lol
quilt lovers favorites from 2002 might be my oldest. I have much older sewing books! Lol
Really enjoying seeing the projects in the blog hop. Hoping you do another one next year so I can join in.
Always a fun hop! Let the games….books…begin!
It’s been fun!