Flying Geese Quilt (1860-1900)

Flying Geese Quilt (1860-1900)

1860-1900

Flying Geese (variation)

71 x 85 1/2 inches

Cotton

Pieced cotton quilt; plain white blocks alternate with blocks that have a white stripe running diagonally from one corner to the other and the two triangular halves of the block filled with three pieced triangles and one white one; the white stripes meet at the corners of the blocks to form continuous diagonal stripes across the quilt; border is a 2 1/2" strip of pink flowered fabric, a small amount of which extends onto the back; backing is plain white, hand-quilted in dissecting diagonal lines, forming parallelograms; lightly stuffed.

1999.001.0316

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