Antique quilts in Missouri

Managed to visit quite a few antique malls today. I managed to buy a quilt, a quilt top and 4 feed sacks but all the photos below are of interesting quilts which I didn't buy.

This was a lovely dolls bunk bed with two star dolls quilts - $42.

A large tumbling blocks quilt with hexagons on the back!

Crazy crumb liberated quilt backed with an old curtain. Very nearly came home with me at $25 but just a bit too much damage and much too heavy.

Lovely feedsack Ohio star quilt top - $45 - but just a bit too much staining and damage. Very tempted though!

I made a friend in one of the antique malls!

Love this quilt block - I might have to copy it - this one was $100 - just a little too steep for me.

This quilt above was the star of the show - hand pieced and quilted cathedral windows - click on photo for a close up - with graduated shades of blue. Stunning, would love to own it - $745.

Lovely bright, tied quilt.

One of the malls showing all the booths, taken from the first floor.

Antique quilt shopping in Illinois

Only managed to visit a couple of antique malls so far but have taken a few photos to share.

Very attractive cot quilt - I really like this block.

Quilts hanging on the walls of the shop. The one below looks like it could have come straight from a Cath Kidston store - proper vintage shabby chic.

The only thing that I bought was this printed feedsack which is in excellent condition. It even has the washing instructions printed at the top. For those of you not familiar with these sacks the idea was that you washed them to remove the printing and then you could use the fabric for other things. Of course I will be keeping it unwashed! I love the fact that it comes from Illinois and has the state outline on it.
A great find for my feedsack collection at $12.

Amish and English Quilts at the Lockport Gallery Illinois

On Wednesday we visited this quilt exhibition at the Lockport Gallery which is part of the Illinois State Museum. Each Amish quilt is paired with an 'English' (non Amish) quilt.

There are lots of photos of the quilts on their facebook page but I have included my two favourites below. They are both Amish Quilts made in Illinois but much more colourful than the usual Amish quilts.

I like them because of their liberated style!

Lovely hexagon quilt from Wales.

I always enjoy looking at hexagon quilts and I have a couple of examples in my collection of antique/vintage quilts. I also have a lot of hexagon fabric pieces of vintage Laura Ashley fabric and an unfinished quilt top made of them!
This is a quilt on display at the moment in the Jen Jones Welsh Quilt Centre and it is a really interesting example.

As it says below it is made of silk and velvet. I love the use of the black background and the way she has appliqued each 'flower' onto a black velvet hexagon. I think this is a great idea as it separates each flower giving them more impact.

As you can see she has embroidered around each flower - I assume this is to attach it to the black hexagon. The embroidery stitch looks like a fly stitch to me.

Some of the fabrics have disintegrated and the papers are shown underneath. This is the strange bit - I wonder why she left them in when the quilt appears to be finished?

Here is the entire quilt. A fabulous example of a hexagon quilt.