I’ve Won, I’ve Won A Major Prize

Well, it is not exactly a MAJOR prize, but I couldn’t help quoting a favorite line from the movie “A Christmas Story”!!!!

Many of you will remember the quilt that my Mom and I made together earlier this year. Here is a picture of the quilt……

My Mom did the hand applique and I set it together and quilted it.

My Mom is a member of the Abilene Quilters Guild in Abilene, Texas and she entered it into her show this past month. It won First Place in the Collaborative division!!!!!

Mom was very excited and is now getting ready to enter it into the West Texas Fair. Over the years, she has won a lot of ribbons from the fair, so I am hoping that this quilt wont let her down!!!

More of Mom’s Work

Since we have had visitors for the last week, I haven’t had much time to quilt, so thought I would at least post a couple of my Mother’s quilts. These two have been done in the last 10 years and I think that they are both really nice…….

I did find a couple of hours yesterday to start on the rust piece and am happy with how the flowers look. I spent last night searching the internet for photos of sunflower stalks so I can get the correct shapes for the leaves.

My Mom and her quilts

Yesterday we spent the day documenting my Mom’s quilts…..both old and new. She has done some beautiful work in her life and I really enjoyed seeing many of them. Some of them were really worn out and thread bare and she kept apologizing for how bad their condition was, but I just saw those as being the ones that were loved and used.

Here she is looking at a friendship quilt that was made early in her marriage ……..

She told me a few stories about various quilts, but my favorite was this one…….

She started making 9 patches for this quilt in 1932 (she was 9 years old). She said that the family’s cow was dry at the time so they weren’t using the butter churn and her Mom (my Granny) told her to put the blocks in the churn as she finished them. Then, one day when she was bored with making blocks, Granny told her to pull them all out of the churn and see what she had done. She was so encouraged by the blocks that she had already made that she quickly went on to finish the quilt. The fabrics were from the layette of her baby brother (Jake) and the cotton batting was from cotton that had been picked across the road and then cleaned and carded. She finished the quilt in the early 1940’s.

Here are a couple of her more recent quilts……..