I Saw The Signs: Messages From The Universe

Dolls and Quilt: Watercolor

Original watercolor, framed and matted

Signed Dianne Murphy Eagle 1990

Canandaigua, NY artist

Dolls a and a quilt, vintage style

Old Quilt Going via Ebay

This old beauty sold on EBAY today for just  few $.  It's a machine stitched vintage cotton  top with a full back that is partially pinned and partially tied with no batting. Bright blue and yellow half square triangles have a lively effect where they match up for pinwheels. It's okay that all seems don't meet perfectly. 

 I don't go looking for specific items like quilt tops, but I like when I find them.  They just seem to be there waiting for someone to take them and place them in a new home. 

Some tops I keep, like the very first one that came home with me. It wasn't my intention to sell but with a few piling up and knowing I can't use them all myself, I started offering them out on EBAY and ETSY  at bargain prices.  

I like that a collector or quilter might get a unique material for their own crafting.

Vintage Bucilla Quilt Kit: Colonial Acorn

Spending time this morning researching this started vintage quilt kit.

I can identify it as vintage by obvious signs: the look of the paper pattern, the fabric print, the label for the percale backing.

The top panels are printed and numbered for the appliqué pieces. The pieces are all cut.

There are spools of coordinating threads.  The wooden hoop still attached with a needle rusted into the fabric.  I have found  info on vintage Bucilla quilt kits at NovaScotiaQuilts. Still nothing though on this particular pattern.   

   I really like it . I will iron or and inventory all the small acorn and leaf pieces.  I don't have to decide right now whether or not to keep it and finish it or sell it .  It will just be nice to look at it for a while and stitch at least a few acorns.