Treasures Found and Unfinished Projects

 I did some treasure hunting with my Dad yesterday.  He asked me to go through my mother's quilts and pull out all of hers and separate them from my grandmothers' quilts.  I took pictures as I went along.  Most of them I have seen through the years and for those that were not dated, I could tell Daddy approximately when Mother quilted them and a little of the story behind the quilt.

However, this butterfly quilt was a treasure from my Grannie Lewis, that I had never seen before.  I'm taking a picture of the block to my Grannie Carathers tonight to make sure it's not hers, but I don't think it is.    UPDATE:  It was Grannie Lewis' design.

Here is an unfinished project that I want to have finished by this time next year, The Devil's Puzzle (Drunkard's Path).  About 3 years ago, my mother cut out enough material for her, my grandmother and me to make this quilt.  They finished theirs...I got one block done!  Well as of last night, I has 2 blocks!  Only 7 and a few half blocks to go.  I just want to have it finished for Adam's graduation.  I'm doing this one completely by hand, piecing and quilting.

 

This treasure from my mother was found in the attic.  It was one of her first quilts, made more for a light-weight bedspread to go under our top quilts.  There is very little batting in this one.  It was made from scraps except for the blue making the design.  I would love to know the name of this pattern if anyone happens to know.

 I'm doing some blog surfing into quilting blogs now and finding some really neat stuff.  Of course I love the give-a-ways that go on through the blog world, and have been successful in getting a few books.  The reason I like this one is because it is for a book about redwork...which I love to do.  Check it out here.