Airplane Quilt

My bestest estate sale find EVER.

I'm pretty sure this pattern is called Lucky Lindy.
Charles Lindbergh had soloed across the Atlantic and everyone was crazy about airplanes.
Many patterns came out, some distinctly airplane, some imitating the movement of flying.

This measures 82"+ x 64" wide.

All hand-sewn. All feedsack fabrics.
This firecracker airplane might be my favorite.

It may have been paper-pieced but whoever stitched it - did it by hand!

The blocks in-between the airplanes are hand-quilted in this flower medallion.
Diagonal stitching on the airplane blocks.

It's 1930's.
Old.
Vintage.
The wadding has dissolved and lurks in the seams.

This is the worst damage. This whole block in the middle is thread-bare.

There are only a couple other areas where a seam has come un-done. I'll have to look at my stash to see if this block can be repaired.

Beautifully square. Unbelievable small stitches.
Gorgeous.

I soaked this for three days in Retro Clean and it whitened up the quilt quite a bit and took most of the age-yellowing   - away.

---without bleaching or fading the colors.

January

January

I am really liking my new work location. The eight minute commute  is incredible. It is freeing up time for my other life.

I've been dreaming on Pinterest. I think I have the hang of Pinterest now. It beats bookmarking things I would like to try and then trying to figure out why I bookmarked them years, ahem, months later. Pinterest bookmarks come with a photo and a linkback to how to make it. Unlike my bookmarks, where sometimes the link no longer works or is for the general website -not the specific page.

The boards help me and my OCD organizational bits. I still have to figure out how NOT to get notifications that someone is re-pinning my item --clutter in the email inbox, but otherwise, I am loving pinterest.

Lots of thinking and dreaming going on at home. Had some family 'emergencies', -- but since there were three of them, we have moved on.

My recent estate sale find - a Lucky Lindy airplane quilt with original feedsack fabrics. I didn't buy it as it was only $65. And I didn't have $65. The quilt was a small twin and thin but not holey. Very vintage '30's.

I do own the pattern and I probably need to make one or at least learn more about quilting.
One of  the red planes was made from a print fabric featuring tiny firecrackers.