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Central rectangle of 112 printed cotton half inch squares, surrounded by a lilac cotton border and corner four square blocks. The quilt is hand quilted in the ditch of the central patchwork and hand quilted inthe lilac border with squares on point. The quilt is signed in the reverse with hand stitching 'B. Bailey 1983', although it was photographed in May/June of 1982. Made for a wooden cot/cradle (in The Quilters' Guild Artefact Collection).
The quilt measures 15.2cm x 23.2cm.
This quilt is one of 19 miniature quilts in the Barbara Bailey Collection
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