Vintage Scrappy 1930s Pickle Dish Quilt – Hand Quilted Beauty – 70" x 82"

This is a beautifully expressive scrappy vintage Pickle Dish quilt, dating to the late 1930s–early 1940s, and made during the heart of the American Depression era using an incredible variety of scrap fabrics, including cheerful feedsack prints, florals, geometrics, and novelty fabrics. The soft pastel pink and green cornerstones add that unmistakable 1930s color palette.

The quilt is entirely hand pieced and hand quilted, with the hand-quilting in outlines of the tiny patchwork, in cross-hatches in the cornerstones, in geometric shapes in the white open areas and in a modified twisted rope pattern along the four-sided border.

The back is off-white muslin/cotton while the binding is pink cotton that has been machine stitched to the front and hand-stitched to the back to form a very narrow binding. The cotton batting is very lightweight.

The quilt is in excellent vintage condition with some minor color transfer on the top (see photos) and one 2-inch string of small tan spots on the back that did not come out in a soak.

Details:
• Pattern: Pickle Dish (Double Wedding Ring variation)
• Date: circa 1930s–early 1940s
• Size: 70” x 82”
• Materials: Cotton fabrics, feedsack prints, cotton batting
• Construction: Hand pieced, hand quilted
• Colors: Multicolor scraps on white ground with pink and green accents

The quilt is from a smoke-free, pet-free home and is pictured on a queen-size bed.