"Crib Quilts" With Eleanor Burns

[Music] welcome to the nursery I'm Eleanor burns sitting in this rocking chair with a book of nursery rhymes brings back fond memories of reading to my sons grant and Orion when they were just babies while they both had favorite crib quilts that they loved being snuggled in you know many crib quilts were fashioned after nursery rhymes and here is the star of nursery rhymes herself mother Goose oh she looks a little frightening such a decrepit old lady while the artwork is typical of the time period because this is a piece of red work from around 1875 now these blocks were pre-printed for out line embroidery and then sold for a penny apiece thus they were referred to as penny squares now turkey red floss was popular at the turn of the century because of its color fastness and then red work was usually finished with turkey red sashing well I know you recognize these other rhymes right here we have Little Bo Peep and here's her sheep following along behind and Jack be nimble Jack be quick jumping over that candlestick and have a second sheet here this is Little Bo Peep looking for her sheep so cute and down here is goosey goosey gander that's a wonderful goose there well historically attitudes to our children have not always been so full of tenderness well the children of the Middle Ages shared about the same status as domestic animals they were sent out to a wet nurse and then when they were barely old enough they were expected to work for the community well the parents had so many children that children were replaceable I want you to look at the pictures of the three little kittens now you know this story it's so much fun and then think of all the fun that they had when they were in their living room making their mittens everybody looks very happy but when the children old their mother they lost their mittens take a look at this picture and I'm afraid maybe that's how the children were just treated it's almost frightening isn't it well let's take a look at this 1930s embroidered crib quilt now it was for summer use and in contrast look at mother Goose she has a very kind benevolent face well you'll recognize the other Nursery Rhymes - there's Mary Mary quite contrary growing her garden and then we have another Little Bo Peep pink and blue looking for her sheep little boy blue with his horn and then Jack and Jill going up the hill well this this crib quilt from the 1930s reminds me of the Campbell's Soup kid oh he's just so cute with his puppy and his kitty now the design was pre-printed on it because if you look at the flower here you can see a few unstitched lines that's the ink stitch ink right on there and then the pastel colors were dyed and the embroidery done on top well I love the interesting stitch on the border because the quilt maker actually wove her floss together well this one is so fun this one is just ducky and ducky do Oh take a look here we have all the embroidery work this little duck has his sailor cap on he's in the water and this one little duck with this umbrella or maybe her umbrella she's so fun and then down here water lilies expertly embroidered now the pink binding is interesting too because it was brought from the back around to the front and stitched and to go along with these is another little pillow with lady duck right here so cute well babies just love the softness of a chenille crib quilt and this one is just so pretty and pastel the crib quilt size but just lie grandma's Oh babies are so lucky the true meaning of a crib quilt is a small textile sandwich one square yard well in the 17th century England a baby was wrapped in a chrism cloth one yard in length and width for the baby's christening crib quilt patterns were often made exactly half the size of a standard quilt pattern now sue Bouchard made the monkey wrench and charming indigo blues you know it was really made recently but it looks like it could have come from the last century oh it's just wonderful she machine quilted it you know sue just loves to make quilts and she enjoyed making the wild goose chase it's also from reproduction 19th century fabrics actually 16 little geese in each one of those blocks all flying into the center square it's just a beautiful reproduction type quilt now this one the quilt maker made in the 1930s the pattern is called hands all around it's just a top using miniature piecing techniques well actually I guess it was pretty tough to do because she never did finish the quilt looks great she should finish it huh well this is a true crib quilt by shape and by borders because when you look at the outside edge you can see that the borders go the whole way around there now sometimes a frugal homemaker would merely cut down a worn larger quilt for a crib and when the crib quilt was worn out it became a dolly quilt but this one actually is a crib quilt now crib quilts are just great in animal prints old kids just love the animals and this one is so fun remember these two that gingham dog said Bow Wow Wow and the calico cat replied so fun with all of the grid quilting in it appliquéd blocks perfect for a child's room well these are two of America's most loved characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse he looks so good in his blue shorts and Minnie and her miniskirt wonderful quilts for the kids well you know babies just love puppy dogs and I have several of those quilts this particular one is called little Bowser oh he was a nancy cabot pattern that appeared in the chicago tribune in 1935 well the little Bowser blocks or appliquéd but I took the little Bowser blocks and set them together with pinwheel blocks in bright childish colors well that pinwheel block is just so easy to do it comes from strips that's the best part and there's no squaring up in it that's even better now when you do the technique you actually make two blocks at the same time when you look at this one you can see that the center is orange and the outside edges are green well the second block made at the same time the center is now green and the outside edges aren't so they're actually mirror images of each other well all you need to do is take two and a half inch strips like this one of the green and the background one of the orange in the background sew them together and just lock those seem to get seams together right in the middle then take a six inch square up and cut a square when if you're lucky it's going to be about a four and a half inch square well once you cut a set of four squares then you just go ahead and draw a diagonal line right down through the middle so on both sides of it and when you cut it apart it's magical when you cut in half and take this half you're going to see mainly green and just a little touch of orange well four of those will actually set together into this flock well let's just close it up do our magic trick and actually take the second half now you see mainly orange with a little green in the center four of these will set together for the second block even though it's a double pinwheel when you look on the back side it actually becomes a triple pinwheel because of the way you can just flatten that Center oh it's just so much fun the double pin will well I have another cute dog and it's the Scottie dog it's so much fun now it was actually an Alice Brooks pattern from a syndicated pattern service from New York City this is another one this actually appeared in the newspaper and it said just sent ten cents and stamp or coin coin preferred to obtain the pattern actually it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dog fala that inspired the pattern well Fowler received almost as much publicity as the president and I have a cartoon picture of Fowler I think the country just loved her here she is right here probably beside Eleanor's suitcase because she traveled so much and here's her poor husband left at home I love this one I do wish she'd hurry back doing the dishes and in the back I have a picture of of Eleanor with her dog and here she is accompanying Eleanor in one of her walks well when he'd wander off to pursue a scent this high-pitched Baha summoned him back I can just imagine Eleanor saying that well the Scottie dog is very easy to make you'll really enjoy this one it is an applique technique but we have a little secret using pre-printed fusible interfacing now this is actually the little coat you can put it on a plaid on point with the fusible interfacing and this is the Scottie dog as well but you just place the fusible side of the interfacing against the right side of the fab and all you have to do is just sew on the line and then you trim 1/8 inch away and this one is already trim this is the little back trimmed 1/8 inch away then you need to have some tools how about a straw and a ballpoint bodkin and all you're going to do is just push that right in there and just turn this right side out let me do one more because once you turn it right-side out then you have the fusible interfacing on the back side let me push it like this poke out all those corners smooth it around there and then place it right on the Scottie dog place it on the background fuse it in place and then you can just go ahead stitch around the outside edge either by hand or use your invisible thread furnish with for your machine old Scottie dogs are just so easy to make at one time it was easy for a doting grandmother or mother to make a crib quilt for the new baby because there were so many kits available this is Darrell bunnies Oh with such a cute quilt it's a kit that never got completed and actually when you look inside everything is included you get all the different strands of embroidery floss the little barrels are printed right on the yellow tech and then there's blue bunnies and little pink bunnies and they are made of the best quality flannel that I have ever seen and once those are cut out they're ready to be appliquéd right on to the base sheet oh it is a fantastic kit well this kit is from tarragon needle craft it was one of the three biggest manufacturers of kits now the other two were progress and beyou Silla you may recognize some of the other kit companies there was colonial quilts from at Martha her schnur's which is still in business today there was home Arts and Lee Ward's which was bought out by Grandma Dexter oh just great kits well I just purchased these nursery quilt blocks just recently and they're waiting for my first grandchild well the package says Jack Dempsey st. Louis since 1949 so you can still get them today all you have to do is just do all of the embroidery stitching right on the design it's perfect well this Peter Rabbit quilt was made in the 1930s probably from a kit oh the daddy rabbit is given the two bunnies arrived and a blue cart while the others look on and that one little bunny just looks like she's saying daddy it's my turn well the embroidery floss creates these engaging facial expressions the stitching enhances the clothing and there's just a great grassy yard for having fun and I love those stylized blue flowers just a wonderful little boys kit and this one is as well the fisherboy quilt oh he's so cute he has this pool and his red pail and his little dog is trotting along with him on the way to the stream now this is definitely for a girl mary had a little lamb is also from a kit because you can see the quilting lines in the blue right around her dress it's so much fun and then her Dutch wooden shoes are just charming and then the nursery rhyme fabric on the back is just a perfect finish well I found it basted and I've been doing the hand quilting it's wonderful it's roundup time at the LW ranch now this cowboy quilt is twin size definitely from a kit oh and there's so many things to look at the embroidery work on the faces and on the cactus or chests outstanding and then up here in the corner the little endian is so cute and you know little brown calf down in the corner is branded with LW well this quilt is just perfect for when baby boy grows up I found a photograph of a circus quilt made in 1910 it's just so cute in oil red and oil green colors of the times and some yellow blue and lots of black well I like that quilt so much that I recreated it only using the tools of today well here's the Siamese twins they're joined at the leg they're wearing little red hats and oh they are so happy look at those smiles and then there's the circus Tiger wearing his red bandana he's got to smile too this is some trees coming down from the top of the block well the is leading the elephant probably at the head of the parade looks happy and here's the circus train that brought them all to the site has some blue smoke coming out of the chimney and then up here the two Chinamen acrobats just ready for their act well the pattern was introduced first in 1910 but it must have been around for a while because in 1930 another quote maker recreated it using the exact same patterns only the colors of the time so different between the two well I'm gonna stick with the 1910 because I like the bright colors but I'm gonna cut it a quick way they're all one and a half inch squares and I'm using this special ruler that has these little slits in it every half an inch I have a red piece of fabric it's a quarter inch a quarter yard underneath I'm going to line up the two zeros on the ruler at the bottom left and I actually put the fold just a little to the side just kind of put my cutter into the slot and just trim away that edge get rid of it okay now it's going to be one and a half inches every time one and a half three you guys helped me and four and a half and six seven and a half nine well you can cut up the whole quilt in just a matter of minutes okay I went one and a half inches the whole way across let's just trim that off at the end now you turn your mat and then place your ruler back down again this time placing the straight line right along the bottom but allow a little room for trimming right there and you just repeat with your one-and-a-half inch squares let's take a look and see Oh perfect right along there a whole stack of them well I like to cut all of my one and a half inch squares and then just stack them in this box so that I can keep them organized and just ready to grab okay the next tool that makes this quilt very easy is fusible interfacing now it has a fusible side of the bumpy side it has a gridded side it's a one-and-a-half inch grid on it and it also has a stretch so make sure that you stretch it and make and keep the stretch the same in all of the blocks well once you have your squares cut cut your fusible interfacing eight squares across and just start placing them let's see if I can get the start of the train right here you're just going to drop them right in the grid right side up you know I think this is a great time for your grandchildren to help you out and once they're all in place just go ahead take your iron press set the seam use an up-and-down motion getting everything perfect well once it's pressed in place you can take it to your sewing machine and just fold it on the line crease it sew a quarter inch seam just roll it along crease it and sew it again and what happens is that it shrinks up like this all of the vertical rows are sewn next you take the little tip of your scissors and just do little Clips right on that line up to the stitching then all you need to do is fold one more time and make sure your seams in opposite locking directions once they're sewn together the second time this is what it looks like on the back and when you're done on the back turn it and press it on the front side then all you need to do is add your lattice and your 9-patch corner stones to set your block together well let's go to the nursery because I have a few more stories to tell you this charming alphabet quilt was designed to teach children letters and names of objects well they're from the Nancy Paige quilt club newspaper patterns that appeared in 1929 in syndicated newspapers around the country the column was written by Florence Lagaan kee Harris I have one of the original patterns this is the Apple that appeared in the Rochester Democrat and chronicle was too so cute and then the second block the flower now in each column Florence la ganky wrote a story about the quilt almost sounding nonfiction though in this alphabet quilt the main characters are Aunt Nancy and little four-year-old Joan well in this story for the B block the little story said one evening aunt Nancy told her of the Bluebird and the happiness for which it stood and for the C block the story said the little cat block me don't chuckle well he is cute well Nancy explained if she used all 26 letters in the alphabet she would have an uneven number and she wanted to quilt 4x6 Nancy said why not let the y stand for you the person who is going to get the quilt oh the stories just go on and on well I have another really cute quilt that sue made just recently all from one and a half inch strips this one has all 26 six letters in it well soft toys were often made from feed sacks this is just a little cloth doll that mother was supposed to cut out and sew and stuff the front side of its here and then in the backside the back of the grill and you can see her hair well the next one this sailor boy is one of my favorites it was printed during World War two when many of the fathers were off to the war when you see the sailor on this side of the sack and then when you turn it over you have the flour sack just so much fun but this is my best find my go to bed book well it was copyrighted in 1955 by the Morrison book company from Princeton Illinois well I found several the sacks so I took some of the sacks and I added lattice to them and just made it into a quilt oh it's great with the greens and the yellows and finished with a reproduction fabric on the borders well this one is in its book form and it brings such fond memories oh I just have to read it to you my go to bed book look at the clock what does it say time to go to bed it's the end of the day I take off my sock and I take off my shoe I take off my panties and other clothes too then I go to the bathroom and climb in the tub I wash my face clean and I rub and I scrub I brushed my teeth before I forget and mother says are you ready yet then I put on my pajamas and climb into bed and wait for my go to bed book to be read then I get sleepy so sleepy so I close each little eye and before I know I feel a soft little kiss on the top of my head I peek and see my mama leaning over my bed goodnight my precious I hear her say go to bed now go to bed go to sleep go to sleep and it was done by Velma Ford illustrations by Mary Wynn will may each crib quilt you create become a lasting memory in the minds of your little one [Music]

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Length: 25min 57sec (1557 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 21 2017