Wednesday, May 25, 2011

A Mother's Love

And since I'm no longer letting my lack of good photography skills deter me from posting my quilts - here's my most recent project.

After my sweet grandmother passed away I was able to gather some of her fabric and old house dresses and bed sheets. All the memories of my grandparents came back as I worked to cut up the squares for this quilt! It was so fun to remember grandma wearing that dress or sleeping over at grandma's in a bed with the old flower sheets. Some of my favorite things I didn't have the heart to cut up (at least not yet) but for the most part I was able to incorporate some of grandma's classics - as well as scraps from her own sewing stuff.

It was a bit of a challenge to find a pattern that would work with so many different fabrics and still look good together. I also wanted a more traditional pattern....settled on a single Irish chain design. It worked...right? Hopefully the white breaks it up enough to balance all the colors.
The whole quilt is original fabric with the exception of the green border and the white fabric for the back. I needed the green because I just couldn't find something of grandma's to tie it all together and it turned out so large that she didn't have enough plain white sheeting to cover the whole back (it took 5 1/2 yards for the back!)

The yellow border was an old sheet - it had so much color and darling flowers....I just couldn't help but keep it for the outside.



This quilt was a mothers day present for my sweet mom! I hope it will always bring back good memories! Love you mom!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

a scrap quilt for kate

Dont interpret the fact that it's been almost a year since I posted anything as I haven't been working on fun projects! It's just been a little extra crazy around here! And honestly, my lack of ability to take cool photos is a slight deterrent to post anything! Hopefully I can take some half decent pictures and share some of the stuff I've been working on. Any suggestions on how to take good photos of fabric and quilts?

My sister was in town last month and mentioned to me my Kate (#3 child) didn't have a blanket to call her own. In reality...I've made several little quilts for her but they have all been commandeered by her little sister. I found this cute quilt top that I had made out of scraps and even had quilted a couple years ago but never ended up finishing it. Perfect....how easy is it to just put a binding on something! So Sarah - here's Kate's new quilt....and yes, Alli knows it's not hers!

(found this darling mini dot fabric for the binding)

(the back is white minky....so soft!)