Quilt / Throw identification (with pics)

[Sussexbonfireviking]

I bought a quilt a few months back, from a antique type shop and was wondering if anyone knew anything about it?

Looks hand done but has a care tag on it

And it's big!! Almost too big for my super king size bed?

Couple more pictures

That's lovely. It looks machine pieced and definitely hand quilted. The hand quilting must have taken hours and hours.

Actually, it could also have been hand pieced using the old fashioned method of basting each fabric piece onto a piece of card. But I'd need to have a very close look at the seams to tell.

Thank you, where should I photograph?

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English paper piecing is the one with inserts that you tack and join. That is beautiful, what an amazing find.

From the way that the corners come together in the second of your last lot of pictures I think that it was probably paper pieced and hand sewn. That would date it from early 90s or earlier because it was around the early 90s that rotary cutting and machine sewing took off in a big way. I would guess late 70s or early 80s from the fabric. However my guess could be way off as people used old fabric and old methods if that's that way that they enjoyed doing it.

Here's a video about the old-fashioned method, which is now called English Paper Piecing (to distinguish it from Foundation Paper Piecing which is an entirely different thing). Back when I was a child the method was just call patchwork because there were no other patchwork methods.

What does the fabric feel like? Is it lightweight and quite smooth or does it feel a bit heavier? I'm wondering if the maker re-purposed some older curtains.

Very lightweight cotton

I got it for £20

OK, so in that case the fabric was bought for the project and not repurposed from something else. Which, I think, might make it later than the 70s, although it could be dressmaking cotton.

Well that's a good reminder to label your quilts!!

Looks machine pieced & hand quilted to me.
If machine pieced the seams are likely to be pressed to one side whilst if English paper pieces they are likely to be pressed open (& there shouldn't be any mismatched points at all).

I think the red stars might be "blazing stars" but I don't have time to hunt just now.

I hope it brings you joy & keeps you warm