Vintage 1920s Hand Embroidered String Quilt – 270 Scrappy Patchwork Blocks – 67” x 82”

This is an unusual circa 1920s String Quilt that is made from 270 individually pieced 4.5-inch blocks that have been joined together then elaborately hand embroidered along each of more than 1,000 seams in a technique similar to late Victorian and Edwardian crazy quilts.

The narrow string-pieced fabric strips are arranged in such a way that they create pinwheels, stars, chevrons, and other repeating patterns. The scrappy construction incorporates early 20th-century cotton fabrics, including a pastel palette of lavender, Nile green, butter yellow, bubblegum pink, and baby blue, contrasted with saturated Turkey red and deep crimson.

very seam is embellished with dense featherstitching, also known as brier stitching, worked in a variety of contrasting colors, including cobalt blue, green, lavender, pink, yellow, red, black, and white.

The quilt has been hand quilted in outlines of the 270 blocks. The back is a cream-white cotton muslin that has been turned to the front and handstitched to form the binding. The cotton batting is very lightweight.

Details:
* Size: 67” x 82”
* Date: Circa 1930s, possibly late 1920s
* Pattern: Scrappy String Quilt / Crazy Quilt Style
* Construction: Geometric string-pieced cotton patchwork
* Fabrics: Period solids, calicos, florals, shirting stripes, checks, and novelty prints
* Extensive multicolored hand featherstitch embroidery along virtually every seam
* Hand quilted in a widely spaced utility grid
* Lightweight batting
* Natural cream cotton muslin backing
* Narrow cream-white cotton muslin binding

CONDITION: Very good vintage condition. The fabrics remain vibrant and the stitching is intact. Please examine the photographs as they form an important part of the description.