(I inadvertently posted this a few days ago, long before I was done writing it. Here it is in it's final form!)
"It just looked like a happy quilt that needed a home!"
That's
what the owner of this quilt told me when she sent it to me for
repairs. I think that's a lovely reason to buy a quilt, don't you?
What
makes this quilt especially fun for me are the blocks that were pieced
with a large red and white plaid. Piecing that plaid next to a plain
white made the seam lines of the patchwork pretty much disappear,
creating a syncopated, modernistic pattern in the midst of this
otherwise very quaint, old-fashioned quilt!