Grandmothers fan quilt

This pattern is called Grandmother's Fan, and this quilt was passed down to me from the other side of my family, my father's side. This was pieced and quilted by his maternal grandmother, and it's been astonishingly well preserved. I think my grandmother, her daughter, kept it tucked away and never used it.

The fan pattern is one of my favorites. I've completed two fan quilts and have two others in progress. I like all fans -- smooth, pointy or scalloped. I purchased the fan blades for this quilt on ebay, and they were so clean, all I had to do was trim them a bit to fit my template. I was surprised to

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I've recently finished quilting a c.1930s Grandmother's Fan quilt top I found antiquing! Many of the fabrics were likely taken from cloth sacks that held a variety of staple goods, from sugar to flour to animal feed. I wish I would have taken a picture of a certain quilt block before machine quilting it in continuous curves and feathers, because on the muslin fabric background you could barely read “Great West…Denver, Co…Table & Pr…”. So I got on the internet and searched using this cryptic…

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I made this quilt for my daughter. I started it in Oak Island, North Carolina and finished in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada. A note from the Editor

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I've recently finished quilting a c.1930s Grandmother's Fan quilt top I found antiquing! Many of the fabrics were likely taken from cloth sacks that held a variety of staple goods, from sugar to flour to animal feed. I wish I would have taken a picture of a certain quilt block before machine quilting it in continuous curves and feathers, because on the muslin fabric background you could barely read “Great West…Denver, Co…Table & Pr…”. So I got on the internet and searched using this cryptic…