Quilts At Misty Mountain

Vibrant Squares

Last Tuesday I rode with Jim to do errands which took us to South Fork.

We made the usual rounds of discount grocery stores, including Sunny Valley for soft ice cream which we ate in the car with the A/C running.

We stopped at Misty Mountain, an emporium filled with the best of non-electric kitchen gadgets, useful items for simple country living, sewing notions.

We were looking for 'fly stickers'--those nasty lengths of sticky ribbon which uncurl from a cardboard cylinder. They are the most efficient way we've found of dealing with the fruit flies and similar pests which come inside during the summer.

Misty Mountain also stocks bolts of the polyester [no iron!] dress fabrics, printed to look like old-fashioned calicos; quilt batting can be purchased by the yard, as can extra wide fabric designed for quilt backings [called 'lining' locally.]

Along a side wall toward the rear of the store is a gallery of quilts, most newly made and hand-quilted, a few vintage, as well as smaller pieces made of simple 'patches' and tied rather than quilted.

I enjoy taking a few minutes to view the quilts.

The display had been changed since I was in the store about a month ago.

The offerings this time had a distinctly more modern flair in terms of colorways and styles.

I share several photos here for those quilt makers and quilt lovers amongst my readers.

This quilt features groups of 'shapes' all in shades of subtly patterned indigo blues.

This one is definitely 'scrappy' with bright prints and solid colors.

More traditional; a beautiful applique with large white areas to display tiny stitches.

Heirloom quality.

Another colorful scrappy, meticulously pieced.

This one is a vintage 'Grandmother's Flower Garden'. 

This one immediately caught my attention as most unusual for the Amish/Mennonite women to be making. It is a larger scale of the shapes in the scrappier version above.

The fabrics are all subtly mottled 'blenders.'

Lastly, another meticulously crafted applique.

Note the intricate quilting.

A local woman is the designer of many of the quilts, creating the patterns for both piecing and hand quilting. 

You can view her designs on her Facebook page: Sunbonnet Quilts.