Every crafter has at least one large, unfinished project in their crafting closet. Mine was a large Grandmother’s Flower Garden-patterned quilt. Lots and lots of small hexagons.
I started it sometime after I finished my first quilt, a
crib quilt for my second daughter. It
was all hand-stitched and I wanted to make one for my older daughter that was
likewise all hand-stitched. I had no
idea it would take me over 20 years to complete.
The baby I made the crib quilt for just turned 25! My older daughter is almost 29! These projects take forever to do!
I got the top completed somewhere at the end of the
90s. I remember doing the basting of the
batting, top and backing when we lived in Cleveland
Heights
Each hexagon has a 6-petaled flower quilted into it. No straight lines for me, no sir! Nothing easy!
J
The quilt is made mostly from scraps although towards the end I did
have to buy some fabrics in the right colors to supplement my stash. As a result, I can look at it and tell you
what was made from the various fabrics: baby or little-girl clothes, maternity
clothes for me, clothes I made in high school.
Lots of memories.
Both quilts are still in my possession. The kids will get their respective ones from
my will. For now, the ‘new’ one goes
into the washer to get, hopefully, most of the cat hair out of it as well as
the pencil quilting marks. It spent
years rolled up in my closet and is quite dirty. Then, onto my bed when the weather turns cold
again.
But it’s DONE!!!!!
J
