In total there Backgrounds Floral 68 prints in this large collection.

This is a very fun fabric if would not be limited to only this style of quilt. There are medium and Backgrounds scale fabrics as well. Some prints look like bedroom florals while to look retro and oh so 50s! Two more Scottish cause are described and pictured on pages 86-88 of Quilts of the British Isles.

There are fruits, fans, children, animals, flowers, no good luck charm, and more. Each of these fabrics would make tiles of different sizes and shapes to place around the center motif to replicate Floral Backgrounds quilt. Some of the picture prints are cut about exactly and others are not. The motifs are Victorian, reminiscent period postcards, Valentines and picture also in colorful and quaint illustrations. Other motifs are medium or small, and could be used as an Floral tile, as seen in the 1895 quilt.

So this is fabric you can buy for the sake charity! The surrounding tiles pieces were triangles, rectangles or squares. There IS new under the sun! This block was placed in center of the quilt. The maker chose and embroidered scenes that reflected what was special to her in her life, like her husband's jewelry storefront.

Photo and courtesy of NEQM. It was very in end of the century quilts! A crazy could incorporate them. It does not contain any pictured fabrics. This is a coast to coast as they work in conjunction with In the Beginning owner, Sharon Yenter, who helped choose and design their new line.

• Not block contains a printed motif.
• It was sent from Galston, Scotland from the maker to daughter in NJ.
• There is a pattern for the museum's tile quilt in their book The New England Quilt Museum Quilts by Gilbert, then curator, now director.

The shapes are irregular, but for the most part are squares rectangles and completely cover the top made up of nine large muslin squares. It is comprised of 20 tiled blocks and features a on point border all around it. It is 1886-1887 and is called Mother Well's Quilt.

That is half of the collection. One of the blocks in that quilt had five motifs without a large motif in the center. One American exception may be a quilt made in Connecticut, called Stone Wall, dated from as as 1865 to 1890.

I think this quilt was by many different people in the style of a friendship quilt. Often the corners were rounded.

• So go to your quilt shop and ask for this fabric, or look online, and them for yourself and to help the New England Quilt Museum.