This charming checkerboard pattern with soft rounded edges has 729 patched pieces within 81 ninepatch blocks. Vibrant colors in various 1950s prints such as would have been seen on kitchen café curtains or housewives' aprons. Machine-pieced with sophisticated and extensive hand-quilting. Backing fabric is commercial chicken feed sacking printed with the name "Wheat Grey Shorts," designating grain chaff left at the end of the milling process.