$725.00
Measures 98″ x 113″
This quilt has a very uniquely designed with hearts. The pattern is so simple but yet quite stunning. This quilt was all handquilted by one amish lady to ensure the quilting stitches are all uniform. Would be a perfect gift for someone you love! This quilt would have an 19 inch drop on a queen mattress. It is initialed and signed and just over 166 yards of thread went into the making of this masterpiece!
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 generally made use of to describe crafts created by an artisan rather than a manufacturing facility. Because it is not mass-produced, each handmade quilt is special. Not all the stitching in a hand-crafted quilt is done by hand. Just as the woodcrafter makes use of mechanical tools to produce his craftsmanship, our seamstresses make use of numerous devices to craft these quilts. The seamstress cuts her pieces with a rotating knife and stitch them together on the stitching machine. The quilter works with only thread, thimble, and needle to quilt hundreds of small stitches throughout the quilt. Handmade is a gift: it is the gift of time and also skill to produce an item distinctly for you.