Sunday Night Blog - Showing off Quilts

Summer is going so fast I can't believe it. My guys are watching "When We Let Earth" - which I remember as current events, not history. So I've decided to play with my blog and try posting pictures. My first love is needlework, but lately I've taken to quilting, so let's see if a few pictures can get posted here.

This first quilt is one that was done or my church. I did the design work, but the embroidered blocks were done by a whole bunch of people that I coerced into stitching. I learned how to write instructions doing this project - and that's helped me in writing things for my students. I also learned that elderly dogs will eat anything in baggies - the project squares were packaged in baggies and one stitcher's dog decided the embroidery had to be a snack.

This next quilt is a mosaic quilt from an 1857 pattern in Godey's - even though it does look like a tessalation exercise for a geometry class. This is the quilt top before it was put together, taken Nov. 2006. I finished the quilt just this spring. That's me holding the quilt and grinning. Ok, I'm really proud of this one - it is completely hand pieced and hand quilted. What I learned doing this project was that patience attains all things. It is quilted one hexagon at time and if a large task is broken into small manageable bits it can be accomplished, no matter how daunting it seems at first glance.

That's enough showing off for the moment. Since this is summer I've got about 4 projects lined up - a hand sewn apron, a new 1860's dress (in the most beautiul blue plaid I've ever seen), another quilt for my church - and a quilt for my own bed at home. And this class.

Janet