$895.00
The Autumn Splendor Quilt is an eye-catching quilt adorned with many colorful autumn leaves. The majority of the quilt, including the scalloped border, are made with gorgeous Batik fabrics. This specific quilt is hand-quilted by only one Pennsylvania Amish lady, which insures uniform stitches. On your king-size mattress, this quilt will allow 16.5 inches of drop per side. This quilt is initialed and dated.
Measures 111″ x 112″.
Homemade quilts combine the warmth of a bed cover with a unique story told by the quilters from Lancaster County, PA. Every homemade quilt is as unique as the family, busy mother or Amish ladies group who uses a needle and thimble to thread stitch on the quilt. Some quilts involve hundreds of hours and thousands of stitches to create a unique patchwork quilt that will last for generations.
When you peruse our HOMEMADE QUILTS you are shopping for an item that tells a story and adds meaning to your bedroom! Discover more about our unique patchwork quilts and the stories behind them…
We have a lot of quilts! Want to see a gallery of the major patterns? Checkout our Common Amish Quilt Patterns.
Called a “charm” quilt in the late 19th century, young women collected hundreds of different fabrics from their family and friends. Perhaps if they collected 999 different squares, their true love would bring them the thousandth–and their happily-ever-after dream, too. One quilting blogger speculates that collecting these fabrics may have given girls opportunities to ask their love interest for a contribution!
The scrap quilt has also been called a “beggar” quilt, referring to quilters asking each other for contributions to their projects. Trying to put together a bedspread without repeating every fabric, they also called the quilts “odd feller” quilts–every piece was an odd feller. Some families recall their mother repeating one square, however, so that a child sick in bed might be entertained looking for the matching patches.
Still another name scrap quilts went by is the “postage stamp” quilt, so called because quilters would use their tiniest scraps, sometimes no bigger than a postage stamp. Perhaps the original motivation was not wasting the smallest piece (historians recall the scarcity of the Great Depression in this), but it also became a challenge at some point. Quilters would collect thousands of pieces to compete with each other in making stitched masterpieces.
The term handmade is frequently utilized to describe crafts created by a craftsman rather than a factory. Because it is not mass-produced, each handmade quilt is distinct. Not all the stitching in a handmade quilt is done by hand. Just as the woodcrafter makes use of mechanical devices to develop his workmanship, our seamstresses utilize numerous tools to craft these quilts. The seamstress cuts her pieces with a rotating blade knife and also sew them with each other on the sewing machine. The quilter functions with only thimble, string, and also needle to quilt hundreds of small stitches throughout the quilt. Handmade is a gift: it is the gift of time as well as talent to develop a thing distinctly for you.