I love a quilt, and I love a puzzle, so a quilt puzzle is always a winner in my book. I found this one at a thrift store about six months ago. I couldn’t find a manufacturer on the side of the box but it appears to be a souvenir from a museum exhibit in 2005.
I wonder which company actually made this puzzle, it really resembled some of the older era SunsOut puzzles. The cut was grid cut but with a little bit of irregularity, which helped a lot because after I assembled the border and the red parts the piece shapes really helped out in the black and white parts.
My guess that there might have been an exhibit of Gee’s Bend Quilts, not really sure where but I thought this was a pretty cool find. This type of quilting technique came out of Boykin, Alabama, enslaved women from the area which was known as a Gee’s Bend began this style of quilting. They pieced together scraps of fabric and old clothing to make these abstract, improvisational and geometric style of quilts. They were quilting out of necessity and started a new style of quilting and created a culturally iconic and groundbreaking body of work! I encourage you to look up images of some more Gee’s Bend Quilts, they are absolutely stunning.
This is technically a vintage puzzle, 500 pieces and complete.
