Appliqued Stars

Fabrics from the 1930s and 40s are very distinctive. Many of my mother's hand-pieced and appliqued stars use fabrics from flour sacks. She did a lot of baking and collected piles of fabric from the 50# bags of flour.

Mom used the flour sacks for aprons, pillow cases, dresses, etc. I can't imagine wearing some of these wild prints, but fashion was different then.

Since the blocks were very scrappy, I used my own scraps to frame the blocks and for the second quilt border. The backing is plain muslin.

It is machine-quilted by Diane Fike: she used an all-over meander.

This quilt was finished in 2003.