Tiny Feed Sack Fabric Squares Doll Quilt

I like all kinds of fabrics, including feed sack prints and 30s reproduction fabrics.  So in 2008, I made a little doll quilt from 30s reproduction fabrics with tiny nine patches, itty bitty yo-yos, and embroidered vines.  I used a pattern designed by Carol Steffensen of Chickadee Hollow Designs:  www.chickadeehollowdesigns.com.  Check out her blog: http://chickadeechatter-carol.blogspot.com.

 

A year or two later, I bought an old canning jar chock full of authentic feed sack fabrics, cut into 1.25" squares for $9.00 – such a deal!!  Two cardboard templates were included in the jar, along with two completed hand-pieced nine-patch blocks.  I've been saving the jar full of squares, trying to decide how best to use that fabric. 

 

Were those little nine-patch blocks intended for a baby quilt, a doll quilt?  Should I honor the woman who so carefully traced and cut each square by completing the hand-pieced nine-patch quilt she started?  Should I make another little doll quilt with yo-yo's and embroidery, only this time with real feedsack fabrics instead of reproductions?   Perhaps there are enough squares to do both.

 

Time will tell.  In the meantime, I keep this jar of tiny squares in my Girl Cave.  It is one of my treasures.

 

TTFN

LeAnn aka pasqueflower

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