Snowball
Unknown Quilt Maker
Collected in Iowa
66 x 80 inches
Circa 1940
Cottons
Many quilt designs have more than one traditional name.
But this popular design may take the award for most alternate names!
Among them:
Snowball
Baseball
Kite
Hummingbird
Job's Tears
Periwinkle
About 1940, a woman had lots and lots of different pieces of Depression-era printed cottons.
(Scraps from clothing she was making?)
This quilt maker cut her fabric into only two shapes ... many of each.
She place those pieces "just so," patched them together,
and "built" the very appealing and popular Pattern of the Many Names.
The "Snowball" design offers a way to organize many pieces into a cohesive whole;
it can accommodate a great variety of cotton prints.
This quilt maker did a great job of distributing and balancing the colors.
A good designer, she also "knew her way around a needle"
(Did I just make that up?)
This quilt maker's piecing is very precise,
and her hand quilting is dense, well executed.
Excellent Condition.
Price: $295 HOLD
(click on photos for larger images)
Collected in Iowa
66 x 80 inches
Circa 1940
Cottons
Many quilt designs have more than one traditional name.
But this popular design may take the award for most alternate names!
Among them:
Snowball
Baseball
Kite
Hummingbird
Job's Tears
Periwinkle
About 1940, a woman had lots and lots of different pieces of Depression-era printed cottons.
(Scraps from clothing she was making?)
This quilt maker cut her fabric into only two shapes ... many of each.
She place those pieces "just so," patched them together,
and "built" the very appealing and popular Pattern of the Many Names.
The "Snowball" design offers a way to organize many pieces into a cohesive whole;
it can accommodate a great variety of cotton prints.
This quilt maker did a great job of distributing and balancing the colors.
A good designer, she also "knew her way around a needle"
(Did I just make that up?)
This quilt maker's piecing is very precise,
and her hand quilting is dense, well executed.
Excellent Condition.
Price: $295 HOLD
(click on photos for larger images)
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