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Land That I Love, Part 2
Life got busy and here it is March all of a sudden. Lots of things happening with the Land That I Love patriotic quilt top. As a reminder, my friend Diana and I made two almost identical quilts, she...
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Hearts From Scraps!
If you’ve been following me for long you’ll know I love to Rescue/Save old quilts and sometimes the vintage quilts gets motifs appliqued directly on the front. These appliqués can cover a variety of...
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Saving Another Double Wedding Ring Quilt
This is one of those quilts where I really don’t know how I came to own it or how much I may have paid for it but I’m guessing it might have been an online purchase because the white fabric is a...
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Grandmother’s Flower Garden
I set out to find a well used, well worn, etc. etc. Grandmother’s Flower Garden (GFG) quilt that I could, with a clear conscious, cut up without remorse. Finding nothing locally I reached out to a...
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Transforming the Vintage Pinwheel Quilt
When friends get together, all sorts of crazy things can happen! Last July while retreating at the Boehm House in Moulton, TX, Robyn says something like: how about we cut this quilt in half, you do...
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Saving Another Butterfly Quilt
A once lovely 73×73” Butterfly quilt, well used, well laundered and most likely well loved, this quilt needs help. The fabrics are worn and torn over much of the quilt top and the batting…oh my...
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The Strawberry, Sunflower, Queen of the May, Chinese Star and/or Brimfield...
Whichever name the block goes by, I think I’ve covered them all. Almost four years go to the day I began working on this disaster of a quilt, Dec. 4, 2019. I’m guessing it was an eBay purchase and...
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The Strawberry, Sunflower, Queen of the May, Chinese Star and/or Brimfield...
It took a long time to find the name(s) of this interesting quilt block. I remembered it was similar to the Brimfield Awakening block but I also knew this was a relatively new block for them as they...
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The Strawberry, Sunflower, Queen of the May, Chinese Star and/or Brimfield...
If you’ve been following, you’ll know all about this disaster of a vintage quilt and how I’m rescuing it piece by piece. I’ve replaced all of the seriously damaged pieces in each of the 16 rings so...
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I’m still here!
I’m still here! I haven’t posted a blog since December of last year, family/parent responsibilities have kept me busy so quilting has taken a back seat. With things getting under control I’m hoping...
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