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This cheap shabby cutter quilt piece is my reward for finishing my latest novel for work, and I'm really excited about it. Why, you ask in dismay?

There's another quilt hidden inside the quilt.

To explain: years ago thrifty quilt makers would reuse old, worn-out quilts by using them as batting for a new quilt. This preserved a lot of very old quilts, some dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. I have a full intact hidden quilt that is probably two hundred years old (I've never had the nerve to tear it completely apart, so what is hidden inside that one remains a mystery.)

This piece is just a very worn cutter, so I have no problem taking it apart. From the side I can see places where two layers of old quilt material were used as batting, too, which is super interesting to me.

Here you can see the backing of the hidden quilt under the backing of the outer quilt.

Since I finished my work project today I'm going to take the whole piece apart tonight. Stay tuned to see pics of what I find.

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nightsmusic said…
You've got more willpower than I do. I'd have taken that full quilt apart. I'd have probably opened Pandora's box too...maybe not, but it would have been really hard not to.
October 5, 2021 at 6:50 AM
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