A small quilt or quilted wall hanging composed of nine blocks, each created from one or more vintage handkerchiefs (12 total) with added modern fabric borders, all in primarily blue and white color scheme. The nine blocks are as follows: 1. A vintage handkerchief (approx. 12-1/4 x 12") with dark blue ground and stylized floral design in white and multiple shades of blue around edges and smaller floral designs formed into a square outline in the center. The edges are finished with five narrow printed striped borders of light, medium, and dark blue. This handkerchief is surrounded on four sides by a border of modern fabric with fan-like print in grey and various shades of blue approximately 1-1/2 to 1-3/4" wide. A 1" wide strip of printed twill check in blue and white and a 3/4" wide strip of printed floral are added to the right of this block. The center handkerchief is quilted with a curved edge square in the center, then in concentric circles, then with straight lines along the inner and outer printed border. The added border on four sides is quilted in chevron pattern. The additional strips are quilted in straight lines. 2. A small handkerchief (approx. 11-3/4" x 10-7/8") printed in 5 concentric circles with concentric scalloped borders in medium blue on white ground with additional dark blue outline of border. Surrounding all sides of the block is a 1-1/2" to 1-3/4" wide border of a dark blue ground print with a white figure shaded in grey-blue in thick spiral forms. To the right of this border are a 2" strip of modern cloth with medium blue and white stripes and a 1-3/4" strip of polished cotton with grey blue ground and diamond medallion print in white. The block and 1st border are quilted in outline. The medallion print strip is quilted in diagonal lines. 3. A handkerchief (approx. 11-3/4" x 11-1/4") with medium blue ground and a realistic design of flowers (zinnias?) in several shades of gray, blue-gray, black or navy, and white. The border is a print with a white uneven sawtooth-edged strip marked with small blue chevrons and bordered on both sides with a blue ground and narrow black edge stripe. A narrow piece 1/2" to 3/4" with a medium blue ground and pattern of darker blue lines is attached to the right of this block. The quilting is outline stitch in the handkerchief and straight line in the pieced strip. 4. A handkerchief (11-5/8" x 11-1/2") with a plain white square in the center and a bold stepped pattern at each corner printed in dark blue, white, and light blue with additional thin line of the same color forming chevron patterns. The border consists of a dark blue ground cotton with a white scroll on all sides. To the left of the block is a printed strip of cotton with medium blue ground printed with bold white circles and lines. To the left is a strip printed with bright blue ground and white polka dots. Below the block is a print with light gray blue ground and white swirls. The center handkerchief is quilted in diamond, chevron, and outline patterns, the border areas are all quilted in straight lines. 5. Two appliquéd handkerchiefs form the center of this block. The top one is white with a sprig design printed in medium blue around the edges. This is placed on point over a larger handkerchief with features a navy ground printed with feathers in light, medium, and dark The borders are scalloped. The design of the bottom handkerchief shows through the sheer ground of the top handkerchief. The border of the block is formed of a gray-blue and white abstract print. To the right is a 1" strip of dark blue cotton with a strange sprig/geometric figures in three shades. The block is quilted with a pinwheel design in the center and outline and straight quilting elsewhere. 6. Two handkerchiefs form the center of this block, including a small children's hanky (approx. 6-3/4" x 7") white printed in several shades of blue with small trains, cars, boats, and planes, drawn from both front and side appliquéd on point on a larger handkerchief with white ground and design in blue of birds on leafy stems or branches around the sides. The border is a fabric printed with abstract geometric op-art like design in medium blue. Center is quilted with pinwheel motif in center, as well as outline pattern. The areas of the larger handkerchief that are still seen are quilted with leaf-like (or abstract bird) designs. 7. Center square consists of a pieced printed hanky (5-1/8" square) with a wavy woven ribbon motif in stripes of blue and white appliquéd on point onto a larger handkerchief (14-1/2" x 14-1/4") with white ground and elaborate stylized blue border design. The outer pieced border of this block is of a dark blue ground fabric with leaf-like designs in grays and blues, black or navy in an unusual organic leaf-like print. The center hanky is quilted in outline; the larger handkerchief is quilted in squares and outline with additional floral designs composed of three finger-like projections in each corner. The strip attached to the right of the block is 1-3/8" wide of gray-blue ground with dotted finger-like forms printed in white with darker blue dots. This strip is quilted in straight lines. 8. The center block is formed from an old handkerchief (12-1/2" square) with gray blue (faded) ground and white floral design forming cross of circle and ovals with large white flowers in four corners. Printed scalloped border. Pieced border on all sides composed of white fabric with dark blue crescent print. Lower border strip 1" wide of blue floral print with tiny blue flower on it. Center is quilted in outline; border and added strip in straight lines. 9. Block of printed handkerchief (11-3/4" x 11-3/8") with dark blue ground, bold abstract flowers in white outlined in dark blue with center of medium blue. Medium blue leaf like designs with white veining accompany blossoms border on all sides of dark blue on white print with circles, diagonals, and zigzags. Strip of blue with white polka dot as see above is found to the left of the square. A gray-blue leaf like design is found in strips on both the top and bottom of this block. Corner blocks found at each corner of this border are of shadowy blue design. Quilted in outline within the floral print hanky. Diagonal line quilted within border. Whole quilt is surrounded with 2-1/4 to 2-3/8" border of blue "rainbow" print with "monochromatic“ background alternating in wavy stripes of dark and light blue overprinted with navy blue leaf. The borders throughout are square. The same fabric as the outer border is used for the quilt binding, which is 3/8" wide both front and back. The binding is applied on the straight of the grain by machine in the front and brought to the back and finished with hand stitching. All other assembly is with machine stitching unless indicated as appliquéd above. The quilt backing is pieces with large areas to the left and right composed of a print with dark blue ground and narrow ribbons of the center of the backing is pieced with some of the same prints used on the obverse and one new fabric with a blue and white print of repeating small scale "floral" design in a diaper pattern. Batting is polyester. Quilting is in 13-14 stitches per inch in cotton thread of white, blue, and dark blue to match the ground color of the fabric. Equipped with a 3-1/2" hanging strip on the reverse.