Pop Art Vintage Footballs Quilt
Does anyone have a clue what this pattern is called? This is a magic quilt. It appeared in my collection and I have totally forgotten how it got there. It contains those great 1960s or 1970s cottons, although some of the fabrics may date back to an earlier time. Here you find those difficult curved lines and points that have all but disappeared from contemporary quilts, because they are not so easy to execute on a sewing machine as by hand... and what woman today has the zillions of hours it takes to hand-sew a quilt top?
This one is hand-pieced, and hand quilted in shells with a thin soft cotton batt. The binding is a half-inch self binding, but one end has a flat crisp 1 1/2 " binding with no batting inside of it. I'm guessing that its function was to help the bed maker to find the top of the quilt because it is different there.
I'm so grateful for the women of our past who were quilters and left us these big soft wrinkley warm huggy pieces of art, all vibrant and complex. This one is especially 'woofy' and it doesn't lay flat. It gets a new surface of puffiness every time it is smoothed one way or the other. Some quilts are too fragile for use because they might never survive the washing. But they can be stabilized if they are batted and backed with new fabric and machine quilted with plenty of stitches to nail down the remaining surface fibers so they cannot shred.
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