A string quilt based on triangles pieced into diamonds.
From Virginia Berger's collection
Hodge Podge quilt by the Hutton Valley Quilters in Missouri.
Deb and I did a quilt road trip last week to Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri. The Waste Not, Want Not exhibit at the Iowa Quilt Museum in Winterset was a real treat for two people who love wacky scrap quilts.
One side of a two-sided quilt from about 1880-1910.
The front is a quiet nine-patch.
Virginia Berger curated the show, exhibiting some of her own collection and asking friends to loan some terrific examples of the theme:
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"Resourceful quilters have a long history of making artistic quilts utilizing the smallest scraps and efficient piecing methods—adhering to the philosophy of 'waste not, want not.'"
I'd guess there were 25 quilts in the large gallery.
Upstairs Virginia showed a tile top she owns.
And Bobbi Finley's updated tile quilt
Starry Orange Peel was one of the new quilts.
Waste Not, Want Not is up through January 27, 2019.
Florence McConnell owns this Economy Patch from about 1900...
With some very small pieces.
Another of Florence's, a postage stamp
A sampler from about 1900 with blocks that appeared in the magazine
Ohio Farmer. Wilene Smith owns this one.
Betty Beck did this quilt in the 1980s
Detail of a quilt in Teddy Pruett's collection.
She calls it a confetti quilt.
It's also two-sided.
It's hard to visualize here, very small blocks layered like
we would fuse scraps---but they aren't fused.
Sacks for Pax
Teddy showed one of her own quilts made from vintage fabrics and blocks
and other leftover.
