In Monday's post, I wrote about "stuff" I found while organizing sewing supplies. My grandma made beautiful quilts and during a long ago summertime visit she gave me my first quilting lesson using four patch quilt blocks. Cutting the same sized squares, making even stitches with a needle and thread, not pulling the thread too tight or keeping it too loose, matching the corners...so much to think about. Grandma was so patient with my first try and that experience opened the world to more quilts, needlepoint, counted cross stitching, and machine sewing.
Tucked among my fabrics, look what I found...the little quilt tops with all the pretty fabric combinations that I chose from Grandma's scrap box. My, oh my, what an eye for mixing and matching!
Now that I have a granddaughter, I'm going to finish these off so if she plays with dolls she can have some blankets to wrap around her little babies. I'll tell her the story about how my grandma taught me to quilt and maybe someday she'll want me to teach her how to make four patch quilt blocks.
The late winter flowers are pushing their way through the dirt. After all the snow that fell a few weeks ago, these sweet winter aconite are such a welcome sight. Yellow...the promise of sunshine and warmer weather.
Valentine's Day is such a busy day at restaurants and for the past few years, Todd's and my tradition has been to order a heart-shaped pizza and have dinner at home. We were invited to a dinner this Valentine's Day so one day after having no inspiration as to what to fix for dinner, yep you guessed it...we ordered a heart-shaped pizza for dinner. Any day is a good day for a heart-shaped pizza!
In my great-grandmother's steamer trunk, I have a patchwork quilt that my maternal grandmother made, probably 100 years ago. I should pull it out.
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DeleteI love the heart shaped pizza. That's a great way to celebrate. My sister is the quilter in my family. She has given me a couple of beautiful quilted pieces. One a lap blanket and the other, table mats. I love how she picks the fabric patterns and blends them together.
ReplyDeleteWhat little treasures! My grandmother, who died before I was born, made yo-yo "quilts." My mother taught me how to make the yo-yos when I was a child. I had a quilt well begun when we lost everything in a house fire. Now (16 years later) I'm close to finally finishing my first yoyo quilt.
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