Welcome to the next to last Family Quilts installment. This one is a beauty!
I actually found the *official* name for this pattern in a pattern book I got from my dad. Rolling Stone is a great name for this one! If you haven’t seen any of these posts before, these quilts are from my Grandma Frieda Fluegge and were almost certainly all made by her mother, my Great Grandma Roloff. They are entirely hand pieced and hand quilted. This one is FULL of lovely vintage fabrics.

How many times am I allowed to say that one of these quilts is one of my favorites? Well, this one is one of my favorites!

This one has a bit more striped and gingham fabrics than we have seen in these quilts, and there are loads of lovely feedsack fabrics. Keep looking and you’ll keep seeing more great fabrics and fabric combinations! Clicking on the images will take you to Flickr, where you can look at them really big if you’d like to see more detail.

The quilting on this one is in a basic grid. I could kick myself sometimes for not getting better shots of the quilting and binding details, but there were SO many quilts to photograph and so little time.

For the binding on this one it looks like on at least one side she did a self binding with the backing material — see below and the top edge in the first image. But the sides of the quilt in the first image appear to be bound in red. Maybe she had enough fabric to do the self binding on one (or two — the bottom as well?) sides, but not the other two (or three), so those sides got separately attached binding? I’ll have to look at this one again next time I’m at my mother’s place.

Just love this one!


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Gorgeous quilt!
gorgeous! large simple beautiful pattern, wish I had all those old great fabrics! My family quilts are all pretty much polyester fabrics.. eeew. but they are crazy quilts, and amazing just the same.
Another treasure! Thank you so much for sharing these with us, Amy! I can’t wait to spend some time looking up close at those fabrics–fantastic!
Wow, this one is more beautiful than the last one you shared with us, if that is possible. Yet it’s so different from the others too. What amazing treasures your family has managed to hold onto!
I am so enviious of you having all those stunning quilts in your family. I’d think i had died and gone to heaven!! I so hope my ancestors love mine as much as i do.
Beautiful! It looks a little bit like chairs around a table
Absolutely stunning quilt designs! Thanks for sharing this, I now have a new benchmark of artistry to strive for in my own quilt making.