12.01.06
A Little Discovery - Quilt Related
While browsing in an antiques store, I came across a shoe box that was loaded with hexagons, one and a half inches in size. The collection of circa 1930s/1940s fabrics looked interesting enough to bring home. On closer inspection, I found that some were damaged because they had been basted onto templates made from old magazine pages, and/or had come into contact with the cardboard shoe box interior, over time. Wood acid had leached into some of the fabrics, making them unsuitable for use.
I sifted through all of the pieces, and started removing the basting stitches on some hexagons that I thought I could save. When I removed one of the papers and looked at the back of it, I could see that there was a picture that appeared to be President Harry Truman, standing on one end of a train, campaigning.
After sharing this information with an online list today, a very kind person sent me this link to photos from the Truman Library that feature President Truman campaigning from a train in 1948:
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=campaign+trail+train&btnG=Search
At any rate, I had taken that particular hexagon that was basted onto the black and white magazine photo, and I had made 1/4″ size hexagons (finished size), using “Paper Pieces,” a product that makes it easier to construct hexagons, as the papers are pre-cut to size.
Here is a picture of the little quilt that I made, without a particular plan. It just developed, as I went along. It is 10 1/4″ wide x 10 1/2″ tall.
