SunBonnet Sue Thoughts
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I’ve been reading up online about this pattern. The concensus is that these are based on 1920’s illustrations that were translated into patchwork designs in the 1930’s and 40’s.
I’m curious though that no one mentions what I think is a major reason for the popularity of this design, namely the opportunity to use leftover clothing fabric for the Sue’s bonnets and dress. I think these were a form of memory quilt.
To some extent that is true of all patchwork. If you sewed at all, and did patchwork, you were bound to use clothing scraps somewhere in a quilt. But the Sues let you use dress fabric as dresses, a more apt use for these scraps.
I’m curious, does anyone who has made or inherited a Sue have an opinion?
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March 14th, 2007 at 12:57 am
I actually made one quilt for my daughter I made the background green the sunbonette had different color of her dress and i hang it on my daughters room on the wall.
March 14th, 2007 at 6:06 am
I sounds like an absolutely lovely quilt! I’ve alwasy thought it would be interesting to make the more grown up version of the Sues, the colonial or Bonnet ladies also for a young girl using the fabric of her teens.