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Eureka Quilt – Queen

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$749.00

The Eureka quilt is an amazing arrangement of the intricate pieces that form a beautiful star pattern in the center of the quilt. This particular Eureka quilt beautifully showcases Moda’s Black Tie Affair fabric series. The quilt includes 383 yards of hand-quilting, done by Mrs. Harvey Miller. It is initialed and dated. This quilt will have a 18.5-inch drop per side on a queen bed.

Measures 97″ wide x 108″ long.

 

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.

Community Creating Beauty: How We Piece Scrap Quilts

We source our homemade patchwork quilts from local Amish and Mennonite artisans, who craft them by hand with the care and art of the American quilting tradition. Frequently, families work together to piece and quilt these bedspreads. With their help, we offer you patchwork quilts, each unique and handmade.

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The Postage Stamp is a popular Scrap Quilt Pattern

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Square and Applique Scraps compliment in this Country Hearts Quilt

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A few Scrap Quilt variations.

Frugality Creating Beauty: How Scrap Quilts Developed

Scrap quilts are called a variety of different names, each a thread connected to quilters years ago who first used this pattern.

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.

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Twin Sized Postage Stamp Quilt

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Ancient Star is another Scrap Quilt Pattern

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A color coordinated Scrap Quilt is an exquisite work of art!

Amish Handmade Quilt Trivia

Not many people today recognize the extent of time and tedious workmanship involved in creating a quilt. Creating a quilt is a process that make consume 5—9 months to accomplish. Putting together a quilt requires designing, scissoring, piecing, quilting, and binding. All told, the full amount of time to finish one quilt amounts to roughly 200 to 300 hours.

A quilt is not just a comfy bedspread: it is also a piece of artwork. The artists that develop our quilts choose high quality vivid materials and arrange them into a creative work of art. Select from our stock of over two hundred Amish handmade quilts for a quilt that perfectly complements your home design.

While the fabric pieces are sewn with each other by machine to make certain tighter sewing, all the quilting is done by hand. 100% cotton materials make up the top and bottom of the quilt. The batting sandwiched between those two layers, nevertheless, is 100% polyester. This polyester batting warranties both heat and exceptional washing results.

The majority of our quilts are sizable enough to eliminate the need for a dust ruffle and pillow shams. Just as bed heights vary, each quilt's overall size can be different. We list the quilt's dimensions together with the determined drop for you to compare to the proportions you are trying to find. Please do your research prior to making a purchase!

Washing Quilts?

Fortunately, our quilts are undoubtedly machine-washable! We suggest complying with these standards for best results:

Did you know?

The term handmade is generally utilized to define crafts produced by an artisan in contrast to a manufacturing facility. Each handmade quilt is one-of-a-kind due to the fact that it is not mass-produced. Not all the stitching in a handcrafted quilt is done by hand. Just as the woodcrafter uses mechanical devices to produce his craftsmanship, our seamstresses use various tools to craft these quilts. The seamstress cuts her items with a rotating knife and sew them with each other on the sewing machine. The quilter collaborates with only thread, thimble, as well as needle to quilt hundreds of little stitches throughout the quilt. Handmade is a gift: it is the gift of time and also skill to create a product uniquely for you.

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