Vintage Bucilla Applique Quilt Kit Rose Wreath No. 2868 1930s, Floss & Backing
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:1130942 | Features: applique |
| Brand: Bucilla |
This wonderful vintage applique quilt kit is almost in its original condition, including its original box and receipt from Marshall Fields Company. The box, instruction, and receipt all being paper have aged since it was purchased there in 1939. When I acquired this on ebay more than a decade ago, I sepaarated the contents from the box in order to protect them and was pleased to find they had not aged too much.
The design of this quilt is unusual in that it is not a... single sheet of top fabric. Rather there is a central white medallion, surrounded by a blue border, and the whole is surrounded on four sides by a white border, which is then meant to be bound in the same blue. The task of applique will be made easy by having it divided into 9 pieces, especially since the outer border is mostly quilted rather than filled with flowers. The central white panel and blue borders appear to be pristine. There are a few small brown or yellow spots (6-10 found in the outer borders, as shown in my last two scans. Hopefully they can be spot cleaned when the quilt is done. The colored fabrics are all fine, but I wonder if the darker green has faded over tie. This kit includes 20 of the 21 embroidery floss skeins needed, one dark green is missing and the pink has been used (on something else?). The binding is intact on a piece of cardboard. In addition to all of this the kit includes a white backing sheet bought at the same time as the kit and floss, so it is the very same tight weave cotton. Unfortunately it was in the box next to the cardboard and so a rectangle about the size of the box shows tanning. How lucky it was on the backing fabric, which perhaps could be washed and bleached ahead of use.
This kit will make a quilt measuring 78 x 94". One might be tempted to find a matching blue solid to make a further border to extend it in both directions. It is of course 100% cotton.
Your kit will be shipped as a priority mail package with tracking. If you purchase more than one item, please use the shopping card so I can calculate a postage discount.
The design of this quilt is unusual in that it is not a... single sheet of top fabric. Rather there is a central white medallion, surrounded by a blue border, and the whole is surrounded on four sides by a white border, which is then meant to be bound in the same blue. The task of applique will be made easy by having it divided into 9 pieces, especially since the outer border is mostly quilted rather than filled with flowers. The central white panel and blue borders appear to be pristine. There are a few small brown or yellow spots (6-10 found in the outer borders, as shown in my last two scans. Hopefully they can be spot cleaned when the quilt is done. The colored fabrics are all fine, but I wonder if the darker green has faded over tie. This kit includes 20 of the 21 embroidery floss skeins needed, one dark green is missing and the pink has been used (on something else?). The binding is intact on a piece of cardboard. In addition to all of this the kit includes a white backing sheet bought at the same time as the kit and floss, so it is the very same tight weave cotton. Unfortunately it was in the box next to the cardboard and so a rectangle about the size of the box shows tanning. How lucky it was on the backing fabric, which perhaps could be washed and bleached ahead of use.
This kit will make a quilt measuring 78 x 94". One might be tempted to find a matching blue solid to make a further border to extend it in both directions. It is of course 100% cotton.
Your kit will be shipped as a priority mail package with tracking. If you purchase more than one item, please use the shopping card so I can calculate a postage discount.
