One Bed Three Different Quilts

Recently I washed this patchwork bedspread which hadn't had a wash in 30 years. It came up beautifully with vibrant colour restored and ready to give me pleasure again. It was started by my Aunt Dorothy and completed by moi in the mid 70s. She did the herringbone stitching for me later and good friend Jill made a lining for it.

I was reminded of the white crocheted one when friend Angela said she had been to a flea market in Utrecht recently. This quilt came from a fleamarket in Amsterdam in the late 60s. It has deteriorated over the years and now it has been bequeathed to a friend of friend along with another bedcover my mother was given in Singpore round the same time, the third bedcover pictured. Hopefully she will be able to recycle bits of both to make something new for the next couple of decades or so.