Thank you

Thank you JudyPete. I was also thinking the $20-$25 range for exactly the same reasons. And I was also struck by the criss cross sashing.

I do ebay myself but haven't wanted to mess with that for a while. I just wanted to find a better home for it than the garbage.

This might look wonderful displayed from a cradle or doll bed or something of that nature.

Vintage Quilt Piece

Hi, Judy in Arkansas: While there are many vintage quilt collectors out there, most collectors want quilts that are in excellent condition. Of course, there are also those who like the worn look and use such quilts for display purposes in their home, etc. If a pattern is highly unusual, or has providence (history), that makes a vintage quilt more desireable. Quilts that date back to the mid-1800s, especially the Civil War era, are prized. I'm guessing this one dates to 1930-40. But I could be wrong.

This piece is interesting in that is has an attractive block pattern and the sashing is 'different'. I really do like that sashing and have made note of its construction. Readers can click on the photo to get a closer view.

There are many old worn-out quilts sold on eBay and they are generally listed as "cutter quilts" for the buyers will cut them up for primitive crafts. You can go to eBay and research prices on small pieces like this. Crafters might cut it for crafty items or frame it for a primitive wall hanging.

I don't have the time this morning but perhaps someone here could look up the pattern for you. That would add interest to a potential buyer, especially if you have a quilter friend who can list it on eBay. Barbara Brackman has a book that is helpful in identifying block patterns/names. Remember, though, with eBay, that they charge an upfront fee as well as a percentage of the sale price, so when all is said and done you will pay eBay approx 3-5 percent (I could be off on this) of your final sale. I think it would be better to sell it personally at home or to some reader here. Listing is a hassle because you have to take photos, upload the photos, write your description, etc. It's very time consuming.

It is good that you have not just tossed this in the garbage. Don't expect a high price. But perhaps you can find someone willing to give you a small amount that will help your quilt group buy thread, fabric, or whatever. Or perhaps you can even find a quilter who will swap you with new fabric from their stash for old quilt piece. I'm not an appraiser so will not give you an "official appraisal" but it would surprise me if it fetched more than $20. If someone here disagrees with that, I certainly won't be offended if they so state. LOL.

But thanks for sharing. If nothing else, I got a wonderful sashing idea from your photo! I missed seeing it at first because I was looking at the block itself. But take a second look at the construction of the sashing and its visual effect. It's very attractive.

Best
JudyPete

More Info

I forgot to say that the size of the vintage piece is 36" X 24.5". It is completely hand quilted and the back is traditional muslin.

Vintage price??

I am posting a picture of a piece of a vintage quilt that was brought to our church relief quilt making group. We think it was a regular bed size quilt at one time, but cut down as a lap robe or something similar. It was bound in a different fabric on one side and just zigzagged shut on the end. It is showing some wear but the colors are still bright. We cannot use it for our group, but would like to see if we can sell it to help buy supplies that we need.

I know that someone on here--one of the other Judys??--collects vintage quilts and perhaps could help put a price on it. We're not looking for a lot, just to get it somewhere it might be appreciated.

Thank you to whomever can give some assistance!!

Ami

Ami Simms was a blast!!!!! These quilts are awesome! Please check the website for info on where the exhibit will be in coming months. Dates thru 2010 are listed and I think there is room for more if someone's guild is interested. She does a powerpoint presentation as part of the program which explains why she got involved in Alzheimer's research (her mom has it) and you find out what an incredible life her mom had. If you get a chance to go see the exhibit, take along kleenex so you can read the descriptions.

I'll have to get back to you about the interview, I am getting the DVD tomorrow and I am going to send it to Ami to have Ami upload it to YouTube. I'm just not computer savvy enough. I will try to post a picture of Ami and myself to the site as soon as my camera recharges.

In stitches, Shelli

Shelli's interview

Please let us know how we can see the interview, what fun for both of you!
I'd love to have Ami at our guild that would be such a treat.
Jill

Alzheimer's Quilts

I don't know if any of you have ever taken a class from Ami Simms, but I did some years ago and she was a blast! She is currently curator of the Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece by Piece quilt collection that is traveling the country. I was lucky enough to see this exhibit today at a local high school during the Its a Stitch quilt show. WOW, these quilts and their stories have power! I will also be interviewing Ami tommorrow for our local tv channel and my camera man has given me permission to submit the video to YouTube. If you would like more info or want to see the quilts online or check the travel schedule go to: www.AlzQuilts.org Now I need my beauty sleep so I don't look to ghastly on camera--lol!

Shelli

Need on-point graph paper

Hi all - it's been quite a while since I've posted anything, but I've been keeping up with all your posts. I need some help desperately - I'm trying to draw up a quilt top on graph paper in an on-point setting and my little brain just won't cooperate! I turn the paper but just can't seem to get it right. I'm putting sashing and cornerstones between the blocks so that complicates it a bit. I seem to remember that there was a website where you could download graph paper. After a Google search I still didn't find what I need. Is there such a thing? Or does someone know the trick to this? Ordinarily I do great with graph paper - it's the only way I know how to draw anything! Thanks ........NancyH

Let Me Entertain You

For a long time the BB has been my "light moment" of the day. And learning that we do indeed have "Quilt Police" in our midst has been a tickler. I love the photo of Judy inspecting Ted Storm's quilt "Spring of Desire". I only wish the camera had been in movie mode for it would have been a real giggle to see Ted's mentor, Lois, swat Judy on the butt for her impudence. The verdict on Ms. Storm's quilt? "Quilty as Charged!"

Are there any more Quilt Police out there, hiding behind their BB facade? If so, let's see photographic proof. I need a little entertainment these days...been doing some heavy-duty family care-taking this past month and it's not over yet. An occasional giggle at the WWQP BB is very welcome indeed.

JudyPete

Inspector Judy of the "Quilt Police"

In the comments section of my previous posting about my brush with quilting greatness dutchrose asked "how did she achieve the look of blurriness in the 'background' of the quilt? a fabric design? a bleaching technique? sewn strips? all of the closeup pics have been of the outer edges and i'm very curious."

This photo shows my bit of silliness when I pretended to look for a flaw in the Best of Show quilt but it also shows a better view of the background fabric. I read somewhere online that it was pieced from an RJR fabric and I do recall seeing a fabric once that ran in bands of red from one selvege to another light red at one side to dark red at another side. So imagine four giant triangles of a gradated gray fabric meeting with the lightest gray points in the center ...

Lois Ide told me that Ted had worked four years in the making of this quilt so I don't think you would be able to find this fabric on the market today.

One thing that boggled my mind in seeing this quilt up close and personal was the hand quilting of that grid ...

Judy

Carbs

Pat, I'm probably one of the last people on earth who doesn't really know what a carb is, but could you explain? When I think of carbs, I think of bread or potatoes, but I know that's not the whole story. Could you explain carbs a little better for the diet-illiterate among us? Thanks!

Jean in VT

A Brush With Quilting "Greatness"

Tonight in Marion, Ohio I met Ted Storm the creator of "Spring of Desire" which was the winner of "Best of Show" at the AQS in Paducah this past weekend. Ted brought her quilt to Ohio so she could share it with Lois K. Ide, her beloved mentor and teacher who is an 88 year old widow who lives in Bucyrus, Ohio. There were dozens and dozens of other quilters who showed up to view this quilt up close and personal but I'm probably the only clown who joked around with a magnifying glass and pretended to be the "Quilt Police" ... I have a photo of that, too but I'm not sure I should post too many photos on the same subject.

Judy

Judy Pete, your half square triangle shirt quilt was beautiful. You are inspiring me.

I am going to have my granddaughters (10 & 12 years) stay with me for 3 weeks this summer and I want to teach them to sew. I was looking for a quilt pattern and I thought I might copy your half square triangle quilt. Would you mind sharing the size of the small and large half square triangles you cut for your quilt?

Thanks a bunch,
Linda in beautiful AZ

Y2K

I made two Y2K quilts, and I thoroughly enjoyed both of them. I've decided that any fabric that gets smaller than a fat eighth needs to be cut into the largest possible square(s). This means that I have a rubber maid container of 5 inch squares, a few 4 inch squares mixed into my 5 inch container, a container of 3 inch squares, 2.5 and 2 inch squares. I have an entire box of 2 inch squares. I used up all the signature squares in my 2 Y2K quilts though.
I also keep buying the sample packs with 5 inch squares too. I've been thinking of using all these squares with the disappearing nine patch pattern.
I'll have to try that this summer, after completing my mother's quilt.
I've discovered why I no longer have time to quilt during the school year. The job I took 3 years ago, while great, is basically half an hour farther away than the one I left; that costs me an hour a day. I am also the academic team coach. I had not added up the hours, but my principal asked me to figure out the time I was spending, and it added up to 93 hours in January, mostly on the weekends. Add to that papers to grade, and now I know where my life has gone. 3 1/2 weeks until exams...
Laura in Alabama

Losing weight

For me, the key is to avoid carbs. I can only seem to lose if I stay under 20 grams of carbs a day. Fortunately, I am a carnivore--I love meat, nuts, eggs, cheese, etc. And when I avoid carbs, my cholesterol stays lower, so that's another benefit. One thing about it, I know that I can never go back to eating sugary stuff and carb-dense foods, but that's okay. There are lots of lovely low-carb vegetables, and I can manage to lose if I have an occasional apple or pear, and there are Atkins sweets to placate my 28 sweet teeth. I always carry an Atkins Advantage or Atkins Endulge bar with me, to avoid temptation. When out for dinner, when others have their dessert, I whip out my Atkins and enjoy it. And it was a real pleasure giving away first the size 3X shirts, then the 2X, and now the Xlarge sizes are getting awfully roomy, and I can get into a Large shirt. My rear end has always been smaller in proportion. Size 16 pants and jeans are getting pretty roomy. I just bought some Medium size shorts for the summer, hurrah. Anyway, if you lose slowly, that's better than doing it quickly. I hope to lose another 35 pounds, but know it will take at least a year, maybe more.

bringing up the blog

For the person who says she still has trouble opening this page on her computer. Put it in your favorites. I just click the favorite link and click WWBB and I'm here. No problems.

Y2K

You bet I remember them! Since it was difficult for swappers to find someone from Idaho, I actually swapped enough to make three quilts. The first had all 50 states plus all of the Canadian provinces and I can't remember how many foreign countries. That one was chosen to hang in the display of Y2K quilts at Houston. My second was made from way more than 2000 squares and was a split nine-patch that I called North, South, East and West (the one in the picture with Gus and me). It is on my bed right now. As for the third batch....they went to a friend who does paper piecing, since I wasn't willing to deal with any more of the little squares after the first two.

Kathi

Y2KQ Motivation

Hi, Stripey Bear,

I remember you from the old BB days. Glad to hear you are working on your second Y2KQ. Perhaps your post will nudge me to get my second set out of the closet and do something with them.

My first Y2KQ was soooo large. My DD wants my first to hang on a wall and she'll never own a house with a wall large enough to display it. LOL. So I'm thinking of duplicating the quilt in a smaller size.

For those quilters who don't remember Y2K quilts...when this WWQP BB was in its early days, members swapped packets of 25 different 2.5 inch squares of fabric. The packets were labeled "squishies" and included a signature square as well as a short bio of the quilter. It was so much fun to open the mailbox and find more squishies with wonderful fabrics from all over the United States and from other countries as well.

Quilters were exceptionally creative in designing their Y2K quilts. The idea was to have 2000 different fabrics in commemoration of the Year 2000. The idea was to make it a true charm quilt, that is, to have no two fabrics alike. It was truly an international internet event. Many of the swappers still post here or over on the Chat Page.

Anyone else out there still working on their Y2KQs? Or is your stash of 2.5 inch squares sitting in a Rubbermaid container in the closet, waiting for some future quilter??

JudyPete

Shirt Quilts

Here in Britain, we have thrift stores, we call them charity shops. Most of our shirts are polycotton though, and would be no good in a quilt.
Looking at Judy's quilts makes me want to look for cotton ones though. They are so lovely.
I am working on the second of 2 Y2K quilts!!! It is pieced, layered and ready to quilt. I am procrastinating. Could have done 2 hours last night whilst watching the latest Midsomer Murders.
Also making a scrap quilt for a friends daughter. In lilacs, purples, creams and tans.
Stripey Bear.