quilts of old...

I very much enjoy going to estate auctions, especially if I see that there will be quilts sold! The treasures of old in *good* condition are sometimes very tough to find, and most of all if you find them...they can become very expensive! When I attend an auction and I decide there is a *quilt* I will bid on, I MUST set a limit to my bid...it is so easy to be pulled into bidding beyond the planned amount!

This quilt is a *crazy patch* quilt, made with the most beautiful velvets and carefully hand stitched with the typical *crazy patch* stitching between each color of velvet! This I believe would be typical of a *VICTORIAN* crazy patch, I am still doing my research on this info! The price was right and I won the bid a few years ago on this beauty!!

And this is yet another *antique* quilt that I was fortunate enough to win the bid on a few years ago! The auctioneer told us this quilt is actually called a *hap* but often referred to as a quilt! A *hap* is extremely heavy, and is a crazy patchwork on both sides, with very heavy batting in between and then tied a few places.....this feels like it weighs a *ton* and would have been used for covering laps while riding a *sleigh*, *buggy* or *open wagon* in the winter!! On the picture I have flipped up one corner so that you can see both sides are patchwork and in excellent condition!! I was very excited to hear the auctioneer say *sold* and point to me to be able to purchase both of these quilts at two different auctions!

At some point it is my plan (when I hit the retirement home) that my son and his family and my daughter and her family will each be the owners of these treasures, and they will always remember that *mom* enjoyed estate sales and winning the bid on the "quilts of old"!!

p.s. I am not sure what happened to my original of this post, but in making a correction, I may have sent it into cyber space...but I am hopeful that this entry will stay this time!