Rescuing the Past

When I was in Ohio, I visited one of my aunts—my mother’s next-youngest sister—and we had lunch together. She showed me a project she’s been working on. Someone in the family embroidered nine of these blocks and she ended up with them. She wants to make a quilt.

The fabric is old and fragile, so she interfaced each of the blocks to stabilize them. We laid out the blocks with some of the additional fabrics she chose and I think the quilt is going to be beautiful when it’s done.

The embroidery is amazing.

You can see that some of the fabric was starting to deteriorate.

It would be fun to re-create these blocks. In my copious spare time, of course.

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I got word that the Haralson Bag made it to the intended recipient and that she is thrilled with it. I’m so glad.

The center of the baby blanket is assembled and waiting for the borders. I also made and attached binding to the I Spy quilt and started sewing that down last evening. And because I felt like doing some machine quilting yesterday afternoon, I hauled out a UFO and moved that project a bit further down the pipeline. It’s a top I made from 25 red and white churn dash blocks I found at a thrift store. I am quilting small fill patterns in the background of each block. The effect is lovely, but it’s slow going. About a third of the blocks have been quilted.

I’ve done nothing but sew for two days. At some point, I will have to re-establish equilibrium in the schedule—meals do not cook themselves—but having large blocks of time to work on projects has been amazing.