Quilt No.307BE - Beverley Edmonds
Description:
Patchwork quilt made from octagon and square patches in bright and pastel colours in a mixture of prints, in cotton fabrics, including satin cotton, slub cotton, seersucker and mixed dress fabrics. Backing is a printed cotton flannelette blanket. All seams are covered with perfect, even, white crochet cotton embroidery in feather stitch, including along both sides of border pieced of rectangles. Hand and machine sewn.
2185 x 1347mm
2185 x 1347mm
History:
Maker and place of making unknown. Purchased at Lancaster Antiques, Toowoomba (QLD) in 1997, by the owner Bev Edmonds.
Owner, Bev Edmonds, with quilt
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