Artful Homemade Quilts Have A Way

[koshergrl]

 

[freedombecki]

That's going to be so beautiful, koshergrl.

 

[Sunshine]

Wasn't someone wanting to see a cathedral window quilt? The one I just looked at at ebay was what the quilt would look like in a few years, but it's a look... Was it @Sunshine ? Think it was, but not too sure.

Cathedral Window Quilt

Yes, it was me. I have a pillow made of purple and white that my grandmother made me when I had that lavender room. But I never knew what it was called./

Wow, your grandmother was quite a refined artisan in the gentle needle arts! I posted a link to the above quilt because it had a couple of other pictures that showed what the back looks like. It is only up for another couple of days, but that one will get sold and already has people bidding on it. It was clever to take a picture to show the textural shadows that show the work done by the artist who made it.

Hope you put a bit of that pillow on the scanner so we can oo and ah over it.

The pillow is paced away in a trunk. One day, maybe I'll run across it. My grandmother WAS an artisan. She made some masterful quilts. But they were just quilts to us. LOL. She never sat idle. Ever. If she was sitting she was either quilting or piecing. She did some other remarkable pieces. If I run across those I will post them. She was a different granny than the one who did the table cloth. I'm sure she must have quilted when she was young, but when I knew here, I'm sure her hands weren't able to. I do remember her old Singer treadle sewing machine, though.

 

[freedombecki]

Oh, to see just one of those blocks!

 

[freedombecki]

The pillow is paced away in a trunk. One day, maybe I'll run across it. My grandmother WAS an artisan. She made some masterful quilts. But they were just quilts to us. LOL. She never sat idle. Ever. If she was sitting she was either quilting or piecing. She did some other remarkable pieces. If I run across those I will post them. She was a different granny than the one who did the table cloth. I'm sure she must have quilted when she was young, but when I knew here, I'm sure her hands weren't able to. I do remember her old Singer treadle sewing machine, though.

That would be so nice, if we even have to wait till spring cleaning time.

 

[freedombecki]

Well, I did it.

I bought more blocks on eBay to make a quickie child's quilt...

 

[freedombecki]

Koshergrl's swan was ever so much more beautiful than this one, but after washing and setting into a little frame in this quilt, maybe a kid will enjoy it. It'd be a lot more fun if it was half as beautiful as koshergrl's, though. I think children appreciate beauty more than we give the credit for, but babies do learn from simple objects best at first, so I've heard. I guess the real reason I got this group was because of the pitcher on the right... it is identical to one I made for our kitchen the first year we were married, except mine was blue. That goes way, way back. My gosh, it seemed like that pitcher and the matching carafe took me forever to complete from an Aunt Martha's iron on transfer pattern applied to washed muslin. Forever!!! I'm telling you, it took a long, long time. Maybe a week? By comparison, I got these 14 squares (some are not pictured) for a song. The description of the items said none of them were the same size. That may take a forever of its own to place them into a pleasing enough arrangement for God's beloved, who are children not wanted by society, according to what I once read in the book of Deuteronomy in so many words.

Edit. ~ Oh, my. I just noticed the rooster is off center! I hate doing teensy, tiny seams, but I may have to in this case. Well, a quilter's gotta do what a quilter's gotta do.

 

[freedombecki]

Oh, my, is this a yellow butterfly? It's too small to see well at eBay. Our picture specialist here at USMB makes them bigger.

 

[freedombecki]

Oh, my! Wittle kitties in a wittle woven wicker basket. And another yellow butterfly?

This one did have its subliminal appeal for me, now I'm starting to appreciate the song the group was offered at. I just hope it's okay for a quilt. She said there were pin holes in them and that washing would probably put the fibers back together... That is a lot of zigzagging borders to do before putting them in the wash, but I'll happily do it.

To yellow butterflies and quilts...

 

[freedombecki]

Goodness! The coffee pot is here, too. I wore the tails off those two tea towels finished at least 40 years ago.
And I may add a yellow butterfly on top of that flower cart if there isn't one hidden by the other squares, or under the back side of these folds.

 

[Bloodrock44]

The pillow is paced away in a trunk. One day, maybe I'll run across it. My grandmother WAS an artisan. She made some masterful quilts. But they were just quilts to us. LOL. She never sat idle. Ever. If she was sitting she was either quilting or piecing. She did some other remarkable pieces. If I run across those I will post them. She was a different granny than the one who did the table cloth. I'm sure she must have quilted when she was young, but when I knew here, I'm sure her hands weren't able to. I do remember her old Singer treadle sewing machine, though.

That would be so nice, if we even have to wait till spring cleaning time.

As promised, here are 3 of the fluff scarves Mrs. Blood knitted. [MENTION=29697]freedombecki[/MENTION] [MENTION=21954]Sunshine[/MENTION]
[MENTION=31640]koshergrl[/MENTION]. I don't know how to enlarge the pics. Mrs. Blood has a Christmas bazaar at her school next month and has committed to knitting 40. Most of them are already at school. Oh...you just click the pic and it enlarges. Still learning.

 

[koshergrl]

I really, super like the idea of using embroidered blocks to make quicky quilts.

My swans aren't all that great, seriously. I find I have trouble seeing the lines, lol..and my stitches are a little uneven but I'm working on it...

Eventually, I'm going to draw my own patterns on exceptional cloth....

 

[freedombecki]

The pillow is paced away in a trunk. One day, maybe I'll run across it. My grandmother WAS an artisan. She made some masterful quilts. But they were just quilts to us. LOL. She never sat idle. Ever. If she was sitting she was either quilting or piecing. She did some other remarkable pieces. If I run across those I will post them. She was a different granny than the one who did the table cloth. I'm sure she must have quilted when she was young, but when I knew here, I'm sure her hands weren't able to. I do remember her old Singer treadle sewing machine, though.

That would be so nice, if we even have to wait till spring cleaning time.

As promised, here are 3 of the fluff scarves Mrs. Blood knitted. @freedombecki @Sunshine
@koshergrl. I don't know how to enlarge the pics. Mrs. Blood has a Christmas bazaar at her school next month and has committed to knitting 40. Most of them are already at school. Oh...you just click the pic and it enlarges. Still learning.

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Totally beautiful, Bloodrock! Give Mrs. Blood a hug from all of us here!

Hope she makes a mint for a good cause!

 

[freedombecki]

I really, super like the idea of using embroidered blocks to make quicky quilts.

My swans aren't all that great, seriously. I find I have trouble seeing the lines, lol..and my stitches are a little uneven but I'm working on it...

Eventually, I'm going to draw my own patterns on exceptional cloth....

There's a sturdy muslim called ecology cloth. You can ask for it at most quilt stores. The only downside is it's not pure white. It looks like muslin, but it's totally sturdy 100% cotton that takes embroidery ultra well. If you like a good cotton, I have been very pleased with Kona Cotton in white and the color "snow," which is the color you would expect a 40s quilt to be right now if it were sitting in a drawer and never used since it was a "Sunday only" quilt, the original color being pure white. True to form, cotton yellows with age. Faster if you live near water. Slower if you live at high altitude, arctic desert conditions.

And my little bit for the day, which took all morning was two more corners with attention to the direction of the cross stitches and a yellow butterfly, pretty much free handed since I couldn't see, didn't like the shape of the grey lines I traced with an inappropriate marker in lieu of going to find my blue washout pencil that was so handy last week. The butterfly appears between the orange and yellow corners, and I did a blue one, except I misassigned the wrong blue to the mix when I ran out of the 995 blue for DMC, which is a deep turquoise. I think I picked up a spool of electric turquoise, and ignored the inscription, which I spent hours writing on the fronts and backs of 400 plastic winding bobbins for 4 boxes of embroidery thread wound so far. Did I get carried away, or what? After I did all that buying, I found three boxes on eBay for $9.99 that contained another 300 bobbins, figuring I'd never win them. They came last week, but I was too embarrassed to mention it... At least she had some really good color groups assembled in color groups I've never bought. *sigh* I'm so picky, picky, picky picky I miss a lot of good things, in my little rut. Wonder what happened to all those gals who drove up the prices on some of the stuff I bid on until I wouldn't buy them? Well, I now have more thread than you can shake a stick at. *sigh*

Plus I have more thread left over than will fill the two empty boxes I still have waiting for my attention. I really need to do the browns. I've been putting them off, now they're all collected. You could do a tree trunk that would make a leprechaun sing "Danny Boy" with all those brown thread I have.

OH, yes, and why I dropped by here--the corners and butterflies on this quilt makes it FINISHED!!!!

Well, except for figuring out how to make this into a trip around the yellow butterfly world of colorful flowers quilt, that is... Notice how the names of the quilts get longer the last day of real work? Nice people call it "Serendipity!"

 

[Sunshine]

The pillow is paced away in a trunk. One day, maybe I'll run across it. My grandmother WAS an artisan. She made some masterful quilts. But they were just quilts to us. LOL. She never sat idle. Ever. If she was sitting she was either quilting or piecing. She did some other remarkable pieces. If I run across those I will post them. She was a different granny than the one who did the table cloth. I'm sure she must have quilted when she was young, but when I knew here, I'm sure her hands weren't able to. I do remember her old Singer treadle sewing machine, though.

That would be so nice, if we even have to wait till spring cleaning time.

As promised, here are 3 of the fluff scarves Mrs. Blood knitted. [MENTION=29697]freedombecki[/MENTION] [MENTION=21954]Sunshine[/MENTION]
[MENTION=31640]koshergrl[/MENTION]. I don't know how to enlarge the pics. Mrs. Blood has a Christmas bazaar at her school next month and has committed to knitting 40. Most of them are already at school. Oh...you just click the pic and it enlarges. Still learning.

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Cool!

 

[freedombecki]

Ran across the cutest butterfly embroidery the other day, an old pattern but just as pretty today as it was back when it was first published ages ago.

 

[freedombecki]

More butterflies by hand:

Butterflies are so much fun. There must be a gazillion different butterflies and butterfly quilts and tapestries out there in cyberland... I just was playing today. Ok. I confess. I had to pick up another practice square to see if I could get the stitches right on the ribbon floral. This one is bright yellow with gold shadows. I wish I had the original instructions. I'd like to see how the designer did her colors. I made so little progress.

Sunshine, how did you get through your cross stitch quilt? This one has many less stitches.

Don't mind me. I had foot cramps and hand cramps all day today. It's really not always this bad, and I took my medicine, too.

But there's a modicum of happiness doing what you like to do and looking out onto the autumn landscape. All of a suddeen, it's orange world with the oaks out back, and a squirrel is running along the wood fence, the great egret flew by an hour ago, and the sky is so beautifully blue they look like Grandpa Shurtleff's eyes. *sigh* So life has more good than bad, as always.

Thanks again to Bloodrock for bringing pictures of his wife's scarves around! Washed some pillowcases and got them on the pillows this morning. Did two loads of clothes, then POW! The foot cramps set in with a vengeance. I was going to get so much done today, too.

May have to rethink the sit and sew and sit and mow routine of last year. ​

 

[Sunshine]

More butterflies by hand:

Butterflies are so much fun. There must be a gazillion different butterflies and butterfly quilts and tapestries out there in cyberland... I just was playing today. Ok. I confess. I had to pick up another practice square to see if I could get the stitches right on the ribbon floral. This one is bright yellow with gold shadows. I wish I had the original instructions. I'd like to see how the designer did her colors. I made so little progress.

Sunshine, how did you get through your cross stitch quilt? This one has many less stitches.

Don't mind me. I had foot cramps and hand cramps all day today. It's really not always this bad, and I took my medicine, too.

But there's a modicum of happiness doing what you like to do and looking out onto the autumn landscape. All of a suddeen, it's orange world with the oaks out back, and a squirrel is running along the wood fence, the great egret flew by an hour ago, and the sky is so beautifully blue they look like Grandpa Shurtleff's eyes. *sigh* So life has more good than bad, as always.

Thanks again to Bloodrock for bringing pictures of his wife's scarves around! Washed some pillowcases and got them on the pillows this morning. Did two loads of clothes, then POW! The foot cramps set in with a vengeance. I was going to get so much done today, too.

May have to rethink the sit and sew and sit and mow routine of last year. ​

Just kept stitching and stitching! LOL. Zone out and stitch.

 

[freedombecki]

That would be loverly. Fibro makes you feel like you're wearing field gloves, only on the inside, and they're like clumsy. It takes about three tries to get the needle in the pattern at the right point, sometimes more. Oh, yeah. I stopped the Vital Factors for a week due to my aches in a couple of different places on my back. The hurting there stopped, but now the hands and feet are acting up. I guess tomorrow morning, it's back to the old grind of mixing Vital elixir that stops the fibro syndrome. Fiddlesticks. I'll do it.

 

[flacaltenn]

Becki ---

I'm a dude.. You know that. But I'm quilt crazy.. As art objects, there IS NO PARALLEL..

Big fan of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.. Go OUT OF YOUR WAY to see it.
It's worth it..

About 90 minutes from my home... I take MANY visitors there every year and never tire of going.

Quilt museum Kentucky, Paducah Kentucky Tourism, Quilting Kentucky

Any USMB members that want to visit flacaltenn while you're "in the neighborhood" --- ring me up --- I'll meet ya there...