1000 Great Quilt Blocks [antikvár]

Introduction Blocks are a traditional way of making a quilt. Early bed quilts from the late eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth century tended to be made either from one large piece of fabric layered with batting and backing and held together with elaborate patterns of quilting -known as wholecloth quilts - or from good-sized scraps of strips stitched together in a simple way and then layered and quilted. These designs include Welsh quilts made from large remnants of wool and strippy quilts from the Northeast of England, as well as medallion quilts, which were made on both sides of the Atlantic. Smaller scraps were often joined in a completely random fashion or cut out and arranged to create complex mosaic patterns using diamonds, hexagons, and equilateral triangles in particular. Such quilts required a copious amount of space, both for working and for storing them out of the way between stitching sessions. Since space was often at a premium in nineteenth-century homes, and even more so in pioneer dwellings, as westward migration gained momentum in North America, settlers developed a system for stitching individual blocks of