It's A Vintage Boston Commons!

Last Sunday I received an email from Susan McGirr about the name of my quilt. Here is the information I received from her.

I believe the name of your quilt is Boston Commons.  I have a quilt from the 1930’s that looks very much like yours.  I have always known it by that name.  When I first got it I had researched the name of the pattern and believe I found that name through Barbara Brackman’s books or website.  I know in recent years Eleanor Burns has done a quilt by that name but the pattern is different and looks more like a rectangular Trip Around the World.  That may be why people are confused.  I will attach a couple of pictures so you can see the similarities in the quilts.

 

Hope you find this helpful.   Your quilting is lovely.  The squares in mine are quilted in a grid and flowers are quilted in the white bands.

Thank you Susan!  She included a couple pictures of her lovely quilt. I downloaded both of them but I can only find this one picture. Oh well.

Here is a link to a quilt I found on Pinterest 30's Boston Commons.

If you're interested in piecing a vintage Boston Commons quilt, here is a link to Kevin's 2019 Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt. 

Now onto the hand quilting progress made on my quilt this week.

I hadn't marked the pieced border or section before I started the quilting. I just didn't know what I wanted to do but decided to start the quilting and the design would come to me.

I had this old corner stencil and thought maybe that would work since there will be some feathers on the inner border. Well, the quilt did NOT like this design, it actually yelled at me and said NO! NO! NO! NO!

So I asked what design do you want and was told the Baptist Fan design. Isn't that kind of overkill? The fan design is already on two other parts of the quilt but that was what the quilt wanted so that's what I'm quilting on the inside design too.

This is the right side of the quilt, note the fan design in the outside white border and the pieced border.

Here is a view of the right side looking toward the center.

The center doesn't make sense yet since you can't see the feathers, they'll be quilted after I roll. I wasn't able to evenly mark the center because of the puckers in the center of the quilt.

I've added another thread color to the group. Do you see the triangle squares along the edge of the pieced section? That fabric is not white white, it's an 'old' white. I'm using a slightly off white thread for stitching in the ditch along the edge of the white section and also for quilting the white fabric .

Here's a picture looking from the center toward the left.

Linking to  Slow Sunday Stitching,  Oh Scrap, Show & Tell Monday, Monday Making, Design Wall Monday, BOM's Away