Hoopla Patterns: Museum Quilt Reproduction Patterns: An historic collection of authentic reproduction patterns.
Fully licensed by the Shelburne Museum, Old Sturbridge Village, Quilt Festival, and Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum. |
Hoopla Patterns: Museum Quilt Reproduction Patterns: An historic collection of authentic reproduction patterns.
Fully licensed by the Shelburne Museum, Old Sturbridge Village, Quilt Festival, and Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum. |
19th Century Hoopla: Florrie's Favorites: A Florence Peto Fabric Collection
Endorsed by Shelburne Museum for Red Rooster Fabrics
Designed by Froncie Quinn
"The influence from Florence Peto's historical research transcends the better part of a century. This fabric collection drawn from her quilts is my homage to an incredible little lady who influenced the modern quilting world forever. Bless you, Florrie."
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From the chintzes to double pinks, her textile collection spanned the 19th century, with the possibility that the chintz could have even been late 18th century. Best known for her “Calico Garden”, owned by the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, several of these designs would be charming for the “fussy cutting” and “broderie perse “ (appliqué) for which she was known. Peruse the fabric page for “Florrie’s Favorites”, exploring beautiful florals, chintzes, and charming calicoes. Use them for various projects or incorporate them into one, as Florence (“Florrie”) would have! They would also be lovely for the S.S. Larkin Quilt, the Sarah Johnson Quilt, or several others in the museum series. Be watching for a reproduction quilt pattern and kit for the “Florrie’s Favorites” fabric collection! shop at the
To learn the story of this charming AND influential little lady, check out Froncie’s lecture entitled, |
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Florence Peto – Quilt Historian, Lecturer, antique textile collector, Quilter’s Hall of Fame Inductee – the list goes on and on. This feisty little lady was a prolific needle worker as a quilter and a crewel embroiderer. Although some of her quilts hang in museums, an entire collection of them is still owned by the Peto family. With their endorsement and encouragement, I have reproduced a small group of a potentially LARGE collection of fabrics from the Peto quilts. The original colorways that we have replicated from her collection are listed as the “documentary” print. The additional colorways have been taken from the dye colors in the spectacular chintz.