1960s Bowtie Quilt Panel
Don't you just love those pop art quilts using stark contrast to trick your eyes into seeing different parts of a quilt? This one was probably made in the 1960s, if my take on the fabrics is accurate. It contains bowties made up of a four-square with a diamond block in the middle of it. I don't know who made it. Its a partial quilt top, about four feet by 3 feet in size.
Now, look again. Focus on the roundish square made between the two green bowties near the bottom and middle. See how that "square" is actually eight-sided? Sometimes ladies make a SNOWBALL quilt using this same pattern, by accentuating the round part and then fading out the surrounding pieces in a monotone of background.
This piece is so very informal that I keep looking at it from different angles like my eyes are playing tricks. The bowtie is green. Now it is pink. That plaid middle is no help in giving context. Women with no art training (or quilt training for that matter) just exhuberantly made things up as they went along, and the result is wacky quilts for fun.
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