Your April Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles (3 this month!)

Welcome to another group of quilt jigsaw puzzles from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in this month’s puzzles were all entries in the 2010 New From Old quilt contest and featured in this video, the first in our Label Love series.

Tip: for best results, solve the puzzles on a desktop computer or laptop. If you are solving on a mobile device, click on the puzzle piece icon in the lower righthand corner to solve on the Jigsaw Planet website.

Grandmother’s Curtains
by Star and Sophia Prim of Huntsville, Utah 

A combination of vintage, recycled and new cotton fabrics, wool felt, beads, hand
applique, machine applique, hand-stitching, machine quilting.

When my daughter was three and money was tight, I made her a simple dress out
of some old vintage curtains. She loved it, and I loved seeing her in it, knowing that
it cost nothing and I had given new life to something old. Looking out the window, you can see a little
girl wearing her new spring dress made from the same fabric as grandma’s curtains.

My New Sues
by Kathy Guardia of Grottoes, Virginia

Vintage feedsack fabric, my own handdyed fabrics with some commercial fabric –
hand applique turned and raw edge – hand embroidery; machine quilted

20 years ago I found this treasure in the bottom of a cardboard box full of fabric purchased at an estate sale in Florida. A dingy plastic bag with one completed Sunbonnet Sue sewn on a stained dishtowel and about a dozen Sues cut out of vintage feed sack fabrics never finished. So I introduced the Vintage Sues to my hand dyed fabrics and a few commercial pieces to come up with My New Sues.

Pink Basket 2010 
by Mark Lipinski of Califon, New Jersey

Vintage hand pieced basket block, ribbon and floss embellishment, completed with new
fabrics.

I found this vintage, hand-pieced, 1930’s pink basket block for $6 at an antique shop, The Rusty
Rooster, during a teaching/lecture engagement for The Washington Stars Quilt Guild in Olympia,
Washington in May 2010. Scheduled to lead a quilting retreat at the Thunder Bay Resort in Hillman,
Michigan in June, I brought the block with me and with some support from my fellow retreaters (and in
traditional quilt-making style), we managed to design and quilt this new block from the old.

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Welcome to another quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in the puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. Be sure to sign up for our blog notifications, so that you don’t miss any of the upcoming puzzles.

We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance.