Although some of its individual fabric strips bear small prints, this Log Cabin quilt "reads" as having been made from solid fabrics. Indeed, the prints—many of them dots—serve to give the whole quilt a grayed-out, uniform look, although the reds and the cobalt blues certainly pop. The square within a square effect resembles pop art from three quarters of a century later.

 

Pattern: 
Log Cabin
Maker: 
Maker unknown
Circa
1870
1890
Possibly made in
Pennsylvania
United States
86.5
86
International Quilt Museum, Jonathan Holstein and Gail van der Hoof Collection
2003.003.0057