Unknown Artist
By the mid-1880s, crazy quilts were so popular that enterprising manufacturers offered them in ready-to-sew kits, which often included appliqués. This practice explains the strangely uniform quality of many crazy quilts, and makes those crazy quilts that are not formulaic seem all the more extraordinary. Each block of this quilt top is designed with unusual patterns, and the blocks seem to be composed of real scraps. There are some commercially produced elements, such as the cats and some of the embroidered motifs, which were probably marked with patterns, but the original aspects of this piece make it stand apart from the run-of-the-mill crazy quilts that exist in great numbers today.
I love it! The pattern is REALLY crazy, just open it in the full screen! If you are fascinated by quilts (and you should be!), look for the stories hidden in the works of Harriet Powers, a Black female folk artist, here or find out about the unusual comparison between the Amish quilts and modern art here!
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