The funny thing is...I believe that my grandmother was working on this same pattern before she left her house for the nursing home about a year ago. Mother had 3 completed blocks.
These were at her recliner where she worked on them as she felt like it. She just needed something to keep her hands and mind busy at all times. She did such beautiful work.
From her sewing table, I removed the 4 red (Mother loved red) log cabin pieces. She was making them as placemats for her January and February table setting. They were ready to be machine quilted (she made me a green set and gave to me on Christmas Eve 2010). The other pieces were left over blocks from previous works and the Hunter Star variation which she was making as she had scraps. All these pieces have a red theme going on through them. Daddy asked if I could do something with them and put together some kind of sampler quilt. Thankfully, she already had more strips cut for the log cabin and lots of those colors left over to do something with....what I don't know yet
The only other projects she had left undone were these three quilt tops. She had them ready to machine quilt, with bindings already cut and backings laid with them. She just ran out of energy and time. These three pieces were done while she was taking chemo and radiation (from July - December 2010). She was trying to get all the grandchildren a quilt done for Christmas. She did, but at the end, she had to pull a couple that she had finished prior to this year....they didn't mind.
Daddy has asked if I can quilt these, he has something he wants to do with these projects of Mother's.
I guess they are my unfinished projects for a while now.
2 comments:
What lovely quilts your Mum had made, they look like they will be a pleasure for you to finish.
I, too, come from a long line of quilters on both sides of my family. I could hardly tear myself away from your blog. Good luck with your venture. Teaching is almost as addictive as quilting.
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