Yesterday

Yesterday...not as in the day before today...but as in the days of many years ago...when Mom showed me how to make my first stitches of embroidery on bell bottom blue jeans (a beach scene) and how to cut out a pattern.  As in the threads passed down from mother to daughter from generations back.

My daughter has asked me to join her in a street fair.  Another mother and daughter team.  Sally loves all things vintage and already has lots of items made, jewelry made from older jewelry, some unique designs and some of her fashion line.  I'm to make some quilted items.

A friend gave me a box of old quilt blocks from the 1950's.  Sally ironed all the pieces and then laid out my projects....table runners and 2 baby quilts to be sold at the fall street fair.  We are deciding on a name for the booth now...New Again...or Like New.

I also decided to finish a baby quilt that I already had finished piecing and layered.  It just needed the quilting done.

So here are my finished projects so far (well almost...I still have the binding to put on the baby quilt).

I still have 2 more tablerunners to assemble, one wall hanging and 2 baby quilts with these star blocks.  I'm not touching the blocks in any way, which means I leave all the imperfections and wrinkles.  They are totally unsquare, but I just went to an art show and none of their blocks were square (The Quilts from Gee's Bend)...same time frame...same art!

Then I looked down and saw my mother's hand, my grandmother's too.  That's what this is all about...passing down lessons from years past until finally we just seamlessly go from one woman to another.