Sunday, November 11, 2012

It's What I Do. It's What I Make. (Part 1)

Face it...if your are born into this family, chances are excellent that I will sew you a little quilt. Hopefully you will love it and use it and feel loved in the process. Hopefully, it will give you warmth as you slumber, comfort as you are having a rough day and a shelter overhead as you built a fort for dreaming and playing.  Perhaps it will provide you just the right covering as you hide away from your family if they are bugging you.  Maybe you will use it as you curl up in a corner to read those first words in a book and be transported to a world far away.
 
First, the quilt:
 
The inspiration for this quilt was a vintage well-worn one I found years ago at a church rummage sale for very little money.  It was in need of serious repair.  But it was oh-so-soft and in need of a home.
Minty green was its color; yo-yo flowers were white with yellow centers.
 
 
 
 
Flash forward in time when Miss E was playing "picnic" at our place and I pulled out the old quilt
to serve as her home base as she played with faux cupcakes, pizza, sandwich fixings, veggies and random fruits, condiments and beverages.  Anne, pregnant with Miss M at the time, fell in love with the old quilt and requested that I make the new babe a quilt like this one.  And could I please make the quilt with a gray fabric?
 
Some 128 circles later (2 per flower) and sewing here, there, and everywhere, the quilt top was competed.  Just in time for me to take it along as we travelled to Sweden and quilt away in the land of our ancestors.
 
This past week Miss M and her quilt met each other!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy One Week milestone, Miss M.
May you and your quilt be a happy pair as you face the world together.

1 comment:

  1. Awww, a little lady and her quilt...does it get any better? What a great MeMo to make her such a treasure!

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