Sarah's Quilts

Sarah Dibble (Perkins) Tanner made these quilts.  I question one, just because the fabric feels like a 1970's suit and I am not familiar enough with fabric history to know if it could have come from her era.  I have tried to put the names of the fabric blocks or quilting patterns with the quilts and I will admit I am not an expert, so some could be incorrect.  I do know these quilts are handmade and beautiful and need to be shared.

This is a close up of the first one.  The colors are very light and fading so the pattern is harder to see with the whole quilt.

The first quilt. There is a rip down half of the middle of the quilt.

This one is one of my favorites.  The block pattern is most likely a feathered star pattern.

The hand quilting is also most likely a feathered star with a cable design on the bottom.

When I was researching this pattern I was completely intrigued. As far as I can tell it is called a Yankee Puzzle Quilt block pattern.  Considering she lived during the Civil War, was in the North and had two sons along with a son-in law fight for the North I have to wonder if it was made during that time period.

Here is a close up. And the next picture is the material used on the back.

It is such delicate cute patterns. I really like it.

This one is so simple, but like all of them so beautiful.  As a person who quilts and has hand quilting twin sized blankets, I completely understand the time put into making a quilt this size.

This one has the cross hatching quilting on it. I don't know if you can tell from the picture though the corners near the blue blocks are open corners, not solid squares like the rest.

More cable design for the borders.

As far as I have researched, this is a triple Irish Chain block pattern. 

I had to turn the quilt over to get a picture of the quilting pattern, which is a Baptist Fan quilting pattern. I did this one myself, by hand, on two quilts for my children.  

This last quilt is just a quilt top. It was never finished and it is the quilt I am not sure if it was made by her.  The material is so different and the stitching.  I have heard stitching is like handwriting, unique to each person.