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Finding Quilts At An Art Auctions

I've been traveling throughout
California attending art auctions
looking for unique quilts. I have had a
lot of success. I have found so many
quilts that you could tell were filled
with thousands of hours of careful
planning and stitching.

I was attending at art auction in Orange
and found a wonderful quilt. The quilt
was from the Civil War era and was made
in the design of Blazing Stars. There
was a wonderful appliqued red and green
swag-like border. The center of the
quilt has a feathered heart hand
quilted.

The art auction that I went to in San
Bruno had a fabulous quilt that was made
in the 1860s. The quilt was hand
appliqued using cheddar, red and green
cotton solid fabrics. The background was
white and the border has a meandering
flowering vine. It was truly special.

I found a great quilt that was made in
1894 while I was at an art auction in
Rancho Cucamonga. The style of the quilt
was really fun. It was called a
Victorian Crazy Quilt. There was so much
elaborate hand embroidery over every
seam and within the blocks, it was
magnificent.

I was on vacation in Napa and attended
an art auction that had several really
nice quilts. The one that I won was made
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and was
completed in the 1870s. I like the
design called Ocean Waves. The chain had
earth green and chocolate brown
triangles that were pieced with
exceedingly fine skill and precision.
The border and background color was
warm, cadmium orange.

The quilt I found at an art auction in
Paradise was an 1840's thin, cotton
Quaker quilt, which measures 108" x 88"
and had 10 stitches per inch. It was a
Quaker cotton wedding quilt. The top
border, near the pillows, had a blue
print and each side and the bottom had
wide borders with North Carolina Quilt
blocks in each corner. There were two
rows of North Carolina Lilies in the
center, and one row on each side facing
outward.

The quilt made its way into the art
auction because someone made the
decision to sell some of the great
historic heirlooms that were passed down
through her family to her. I was very
fortunate to acquire this heirloom that
had passed through the many generations
of Quaker families. Now I own one of the
great Pennsylvania Quaker masterpieces.

Log cabin quilts are a design that I
have always liked. My grandmother made a
quilt using this design for me when I
was twelve. I found one made in a
similar fashion at an art auction Los
Gatos. The quilt was made in the 1870s
and was made by Mennonites.

I was lucky to find the art auction, it
was difficult to find. The quilt is just
fantastic. The light and dark design of
this quilt has a red center on one side
with two green bars, two cinnamon bars
and two blue bars and then two red bars
and on the other side of the red square
in the center are two yellows, two black
and white stripe, two lovely Lancaster
blue bars, and two peppermint stripe
bars.

There was an art auction in Huntington
Beach that advertised quilts and I was
really happy with the pieces that I
found there. The quilt that I bought had
a pictorial motif, like an album quilt,
with a lot of interesting designs. Each
block was quite different and special.

I've been traveling throughout California attending art
auctions looking for unique quilts. I have had a lot of
success. I have found so many quilts that you could tell
were filled with thousands of hours of careful planning and
stitching.

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