You wouldn’t believe how many quilts I saw on that trip to Cambria that I couldn’t even get decent photos of.

Here’s a beautiful vintage star quilt.

A gorgeous double wedding ring in a vivid yellow with great tiny vintage prints.

And what was perhaps the highlight of the trip for me with regard to quilts. Simple and stunning. Just my style! I might have to try this one right away. It’s a combination of three blocks — one with 4 quarter-square triangles, one with two red stripes on either side of a white stripe, and a solid white block — that creates double-headed arrows. Perfection!

Hard to believe I can see so many gorgeous quilts on one trip, isn’t it? But here are a few vintage applique quilts from the trip to Cambria.

Each of the flowers in this quilt was done in exactly the same fabrics, with the “petals” of the flowers layered in exactly the same order.

I’ve never done more than a single appliqued circle on a quilt, that I can recall. I can’t imagine do all the applique these quilts have!

Another little treasure from our trip to Cambria. This was a little one that was tied instead of quilted. Maybe about three feet high with tiny little squares in no apparent pattern. Even though there’s no obvious pattern, I like how different fabrics are clustered as if someone cut up and used the fabrics as they were sewing.

And the piece of fabric used for the back. LOVE. That’s a single piece of fabric, but how awesome would it be to design a quilt based on that pattern? Pretty awesome, right?

Here’s another gem I spotted while antique shopping in Cambria. I was of course initially drawn to the bits of red I saw.

But totally fell in love with the effect that having one red piece in each star creates from a distance.

Quite smashing!

And it reminds me a bit of the quilt my grandmother made us for a wedding gift.

Love the double-line quilting through the hexagons on this quilt as well!

I am making good progress on my new sweater project, but still have not started quilting my little mini quilt. It’s pretty much one thing at a time around here while I’m working on the Bobbin’s Nest online store!

I promised you photos of some of the beautiful vintage quilts we saw while out antique shopping in Cambria. This (according to 5,500 Quilt Block Designs) is called either “Block and Ring” or “Friendship Quilt”.

I initially saw this all folded up, and what I noticed first were the cute fabrics and the rings.

Only when I unfolded it and then backed away to take the first picture above did I notice the large squares.

This quilt had loads of really cute vintage fabrics in it, that didn’t match each other, but produced a really fun overall effect.

The quilting is done as concentric circles inside the white circles and then in concentric arcs between the circles. I love how that enhances the circle effect on top of the squares. Very cool!

Stay tuned, more vintage quilts to come!