I have an entire post in the works on thrifting, which sadly may be my life's calling, but this Goodwill find takes priority:
No, not the baby, the quilt top:
My, what a sexy quilt top. Let me take you on a sexy tour:
Oh, my, yes. Sexy orange.
And sexy geometrics, as well as sexy butter yellow with blueberries:
And, oh, what's this?:
That's right: it's all hand pieced (forgive the blur, my camera is crap). Who does this?
And perhaps more than slightly less sexy, the decidedly later-vintage pieces that betray the very possibly 1970s or later origins of this thing:
As you can see from these sexy photos, many of the pieces are...well, pieced. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the 30s fabrics are reproductions (although they do look kind of old to me). BUT the 30s repros overwhelmingly dominate, the corners are all precise, each hexagon is made from different fabric (I haven't found a repeat yet, anyway), it's all sound and stain free, it's squared up at about 69"x84" (twin or a nice picnic size) and it's basically ready to quilt and bind. I paid an exorbitant $15 for it, which would buy enough 30s reproduction fat quarters to make less than an eighth of this top, never you mind the hours and hours of cutting and sewing that went into it.
The whole thing speaks to me of the kind of experience in construction and skill in hand quilting that only older women who have done this since childhood have: it looks both totally precise and banged out at the same time. It also speaks of thrift, which is, in my opinion, just what a quilt should be.
Score.