A week-end jaunt away from the farm to a beautiful Antique Show.......and found another old, old "Log Cabin" Quilt - I would date to the mid 1800's. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century, as I am drawn to the beautiful work our grandmothers left us. Anyway, I have sewn a sleeve to the back of the quilt and have given it a prominent place on my dining room wall. The fabrics are old wools, with the traditional red "chimney" in the center of each block, and the surrounding "logs" sewn around the chimney. Usually a pattern is acquired as the blocks are sewn together, but for the life of me, I can't see a pattern to this quilt........so I am calling it a "Lightning Streak" pattern, as the lighter materials zig-zag across the quilt. Geometrically incorrect, but that's o.k. - considering what our grandmothers had to work with, and the light they had to work with at nights.
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