Twelve Quilts of Christmas 2016 – #8

 

So I thought it was time for a Canadian entry into this celebration of floral quilts.  I have 7 books that focus on antique Canadian quilts and I searched multiple online Canadian sources and do you know what I found out?  Apparently there is an exceptionally strong representation of geometric style quilts (squares, stars, triangles, etc.) in these sources and a very low representation of floral quilts.  I know we have them, but apparently at the moment they are hard to find.  If you know of a collection with lots of Canadian made floral themed quilts, please let us all know in the comments below.

 

This lovely quilt grabbed my attention the minute I saw it!  The colours are vivid, it’s ** ahem**  tulips (you do remember that I said there might be another tulip quilt, don’t you!), and it has that fabulous liberated border (now that is a way to resolve not having to deal with the whole turning the corner with the vine issue).  It has a thin batt and is lightly quilted, apparently in red thread.

 

I love it.  All of it.  And it is kind of neat that this quilt is now part of the collection at “the village” where I worked as a teenager and learned how to quilt!  

 

I have to admit I am tempted to make up a block.