Floral Basket, New England, c. 1870
(Betty Sterling, photograph courtesy Mr. & Mrs Leonard Balish.)
Leonard Balish was an antique dealer in Englefield, New Jersey
Basket sampler pictured in Robert Bishop's & Patricia Coblentz's 1975 book
New Discoveries in American Quilts, pg 102.
This quilt may have been inspiration for a Paragon quilt kit
designed by New Jerseyite Florence Peto.
Quilt made from the kit.
Linda Knutson wrote a bit about the kit for her South Carolina guild
newsletter and said it was published in 1966.
Trish Failla posted this quilt on the Quilts Vintage & Antique Facebook group.
Other versions were shown.
Donna Vitale's collection
Denyse Theodore Eisenhardt recently made this one based on the pattern,
hand appliqued and hand quilted.
We got to see an unfinished kit.
Why are those triangles basted down?
Then I realized you were supposed to applique everything.
Appliqueing triangles not my idea of a good time.