Propellers Quilt Top
Here's a quilt top in my collection. Its a mystery. I suppose the good thing about forgetting where something came from, is in being delighted to pull it out and see just how lovely and delicate it looks. I'm supposing that this might be a quilt from the 1960s because it is geometric and has some pop-art qualities. You could get an entirely different look if there were no red dots and looked at the green diamonds as being within a leaf. I'm wowwed when I see curvy lines perfectly set on point, because its *real* hard to get that right.
This photo hardly shows that the quilter ran out of her Christmas-themed green and the edges are casually substituted in a blue print with peach-colored calico middles in some places. The top is unfinished at the edges. It is entirely constructed by hand and was either a family quilt or purchased in or around Cherokee County Oklahoma. It is made in 6-sided hexagons which are then joined to the main body of the work, in cotton.
If anyone knows the name of this pattern, it might assist us in determining when it was made, so feel free to post a comment.
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