$905.00
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. This quilt is initialed and dated and was hand-quilted using 286 yards of thread. On your king-size mattress, this quilt will allow 17 inches of drop per side.
Measures 112″ x 113″.
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 commonly used to describe crafts produced by an artisan in contrast to a factory. Each handmade quilt is special because it is not mass-produced. However, not all the sewing in a hand-crafted quilt is done by hand. Just as the woodcrafter utilizes mechanical devices to develop his craftsmanship, our seamstresses make use of numerous devices to craft these quilts. The seamstress cuts her pieces with a rotary knife and sew them with each other on the sewing machine. The quilter collaborates with merely needle, thread, as well as thimble to quilt hundreds of tiny stitches throughout the quilt. Handmade is a gift: it is the gift of time and also ability to create a thing distinctly for you.