This is a fascinating quilt! The Gliding Star inhabits the foreground so completely that it appears to be gliding under and through all other layers and fabrics. The contrast between the star and surrounding fabrics is startling. The quilting on the star and more, on the white fabric, is stunning. Overall this is a rich and full quilt. Perfect and amazing. We applaud the artist.
Approximate dimensions: 103″ X 116″ – $1,025.00
A dramatic New Hampshire Star Amish Quilt
What a fanciful beauty! Our New Hampshire Star Amish quilt is a perfect queen size in beautiful black and tan fabrics with a lot of extra piecing.
Approximate dimensions: 93″ X 112″ – $850.00
Have a look at this Amish Mardi Gras Star quilt! It’s fertile and refracts like a well cut gemstone. Because the fabrics are so beautiful and brilliant, this quilt celebrates! It rejoices like it’s namesake. It succeeds!
Approximate dimensions: 102″ X 112″ – $1,050.00
Midnight Star Amish Quilt
Beginning in the very center, it’s fitting that a spinning pinwheel generates the energy for the inner Amish Star, which is the center of another scintillating and beautifully made Amish Star. The piecing of fabrics is exciting an daring. The quilting is thoughtful. While the amount of energy that pours forth from this display of suited fabrics is astonishing, it’s the selection of fabrics that gives this Midnight Star Amish quilt it’s perfect strength and balance. (Item 2208)
Approximate dimensions: 94″ X 108″ – $1,325.00
Central Star quilts are popular within many cultures, but the favorite is the Lone Star. The Amish call this particular quilt pattern an Improved Lone Star: it has both pieced and appliqued elements. This improved Lone Star is a beautiful, stately, noble king size quilt, enhanced with sibling applique.
Approximate dimensions: 110″ X 116″ – $1,025.00
The maker of this Chrysalis Star Amish quilt has arranged black and white print fabrics to create this pattern that is glinting, pulsing and radiating. It’s a restless and exploding, yet contained star pattern – brilliantly designed: How do you achieve achieve expanding diamonds and rectangular logs that become curves? And can you see that there isn’t a solid fabric in this quilt? Even what appears to be white is a white on white shadow patterned fabric and over this, are heavily hand quilted swirl patterns which serve to stand for the cosmos. (Item 2095)
Approximate dimensions: 104″ X 115″ – $1,375.00
This quilt was created using two patterns: a Lone Star and a Boston Common. Fabrics are interesting: the maker used only shadow patterned fabrics. Her piecing radiates within both the Lone Star and the Boston Common pattern. (Item 2296)
Approximate dimensions: 105″ X 116″ – $1,400.00
This warm and beautiful Mariners compass Amish quit is a delight – an eye massage. It feels right! It’s cozy and fertile and energizing . . . and it’s a masterpiece (front and back)! See photos.
Approximate dimensions: 101″ X 110″ – SOLD
A beautiful Star Spin Amish quilt all in shades of navy blue. Superb quilting and piecing. the Amish never cease to amaze: an entire array of sensations or feeling (kind of a poem) can be unlocked based upon the quilter’s choice of fabrics. In this quilt there are the four seasons: the feel of a snowstorm on your face, even the taste of snow on your tongue, spring on a mild afternoon and a lush summer’s night, autumn is in this Star Spin quilt too – all from fabrics. The white-on-white fabric generates the stars’ spin and the forward march of the seasons. (Item 2230)
Approximate dimensions: 102″ X 112″ – $1,325.00
We believe this beautiful quilt describes the journey of those seeking to escape slavery by traveling to and reaching the northern states and beyond into Canada. In the middle of the quilt burns a traditional 8-pointed Amish star: a star of faith, conviction and courage. In order to avoid detection and recapture, escapees had to travel at night. They relied upon the stars to point the way north, as represented by the stars that ring the quilt. After the inner Amish star is the pattern Drunkard’s Path which represents the evasive maneuvers taken to avoid detection. Like the rivers and streams followed by escapees, the Drunkards Path is meandering and winding. This is a strong, beautiful Amish textile. (Item 2216)
Approximate dimensions: 105″ X 115″ – $1,275.00
This patchwork Lone Star is so countrified. So authentic. It’s like it belongs in an old country house with a thatched roof, nestled into an old growth garden. We deeply love this quilt. It has taught us that occasionally a masterpiece quilt is made that is more than fabrics, pattern, piecing and quilting. Yes, more than any of these aspects: It is high art. It is magic. It will coat the way moss covers a tree limb or rock. This is one of the heaviest and most luxuriously soft quilts we have handled. It will become part of you.
Approximate dimensions: 96” X 110” – $1,050.00
We believe this beautiful quilt describes the journey of those seeking to escape slavery by traveling to and reaching the northern states and beyond into Canada.
In the middle of the quilt burns a traditional 8-pointed Amish star: a star of faith, conviction and courage. In order to avoid detection and recapture, escapees had to travel at night. They relied upon the stars to point the way north, as represented by the stars that ring the quilt. After the inner Amish star is the pattern Drunkard’s Path which represents the evasive maneuvers taken to avoid detection. Like the rivers and streams followed by escapees, the Drunkards Path is meandering and winding. This is a strong, beautiful Amish textile. (Item 2171)
Approximate dimensions: 101″ X 112″ – $1350.00
Our Spin Star Amish quilt is both beautiful and contemporary. Take a look at the first border of mini spinning stars and the complexity of these shapes: how they are pieced and constructed. What’s great is that you can clearly see the geometry because this Spin Star quilt is entirely in shades of back and white. The fabrics are so well chosen. Even the white fabric is a shadow pattern. (Item 2264)
Approximate dimensions: 101″ X 112″ – $1,325.00
A multi-colored whirling, swirling Spinning Star . . . it’s all about motion and color which in life leads inevitably to serene, calm and enjoyment.
Approximate dimensions: 98″ X 114 – $950.00
This variation on a Broken Star quilt pattern (and sometimes called a Fan Star) is called a Chrysalis Star. The maker used an array of print and solid fabrics and pieced them from dark to light to dark again. The quilt’s light background both contrasts and compliments the pattern and the fabrics. This Broken Star quilt is a stunner, with feathered wreaths and garlands hand quilted patterns throughout. (Item 1064)
Approximate dimensions: 103″ X 117″ – $1,375.00
Stunningly hand quilted and pieced with inhuman perfection, it’s the fabrics of this Radiant Star that capture the attention. The center coalesces into airborne pollen or oceanic plankton that nourishes more complex organisms until reaching molten depths . . . only for the pattern to arrive full circle where it began and begins again. Our Radiant Star Amish quilt is abstract poetry, eye music. (Item 2231)
Approximate dimensions: 99″ X 110″ – SOLD
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A beautiful variation on a Moonglow quilt pattern. Made of Jinny Beyer quilt grade cottons. The maker’s color selection is a mix of various shades of blue, purple and green over a dark shadow pattern fabric. Each non-star square is comprised of more than 20 different fabrics. Lots and lots of hand quilting throughout. Have look at the stars and you’ll see that the fabrics are pieced, not appliqued. And for lovers of quilts, here’s an interesting tidbit: the maker pieced this quilt by hand and did NOT paper piece! (Item 2209)
Approximate dimensions: 106″ x 114″ – $1,400.00
