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Charm Quilt Style

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Crib Quilt top from my collection.

Similar pattern From Stella Rubin's shop (#1)

I love these charm quilts from the 1870s and '80s with the grayed lilac prints. Looking back, we can see a major fad for using fashionable dress prints in a tessellated one patch top.

 I noticed a minor style trend when I was looking at a few.

Collection New England Quilt Museum (#2)
In the center of the starry field of prints is a hexagon
of solid colors.

#2

A third quilt from the Nickols Collection
at the Mingei Museum


#3 center


Ann Quilts posted this photo of one she was repairing (#4).
At first I thought they were all the same quilt but they are four quilts in the same style,
down to the solid fabrics in a central block.

A hexagon charm quilt with the central ring of solids.
This one is in the collection of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.
#1997.007.0907...

date-inscribed 1887,
made by Mary Ann Grosh Stoner in Ohio.
(Plain colored fabrics were not too colorfast in 1887---I wonder
if that white piece in the ring was once green.)

From the Pat Nickols collection at the Mingei Museum
Another 60 degree diamond with a central focus of solid colors.

Apparently your authentic period charm
 quilt needs a few solids in the center.


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