Showing posts with label paper piecing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper piecing. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

Found Treasures

I've been spending a lot of time organizing the wild mess that I showed you last post. In addition to thinning the stash I've found a couple of things I thought I'd lost.

First, I found this little paper pieced quilt. It's from one of the Fat Quarter books by M'Liss Rae Hawley. Unfortunately, I don't remember which one.
















 I'd even started to remove some of the foundation paper. I think it needs a border. Who knows I might even finish it.


 The second thing I found is a real treasure. This a cross stitch sampler made by my husband's great-grandmother when she was thirteen. It has suffered a bit from not being well taken care of.
It is amazing to me that this was stitched by a young girl one hundred forty-five years ago! I know she lived in California. From the words she stitched I know she spoke Spanish, but I don't know much more about her. It has made me want to join Ancestry.com to research family history.

I took it to the local frame shop this morning. They will mount it on some good rag board and stabilize it to keep it from deteriorating further. Many, many years ago I did custom framing. I framed lots of needlework. It was the specialty of the shop where I worked, so when I was talking to the folks at the frame shop I knew that they knew what they were doing with a piece of antique needlework. That was very comforting.

Tomorrow is my stash reduction sale. I've been passing out little notices at the quilt guild meetings, the spinners and weavers guild, and just about every shop or store that I've been in. I even gave one to the chiropractor this morning.

I'll take some pictures tomorrow and let you know how the sale goes.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Returns


I promised more pictures of Penny's New York Beauty. True confessions? I don't really know the pattern's name. It reminds me of the paper pieced patterns by Judy Niemeyer. I forgot to ask Penny what the name of the pattern was. She did some beautiful piecing. The top was wonderful to quilt.



















I also have some pictures of the most recent top I did for Quilts of Valor. I am horribly late in returning it to the local group. I wish I could quilt full time and do more tops for them.






I have one more quilt to deliver this afternoon, but I have not taken any pictures of it. It is a cute baseball themed quilt with fleece backing. It should be a warm and cuddly quilt.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

New York Beauty


I've been working on this New York Beauty quilt today. I'm almost done. I just have to finish the star bursts. It's so much fun to work on. More pictures later.