Ok Judy. As I told you Sherbert's favorite sleeping place is wherever our shoes are. He likes to use them as a pillow.
Now can anyone tell me what the story this quilt is telling? The name of the quilt is "Song Bird." My learning was in this quilt was the beginning of my stippling. I used the leaves as my guide for stippling. This was also to perfect my raw edge applique. This was my first time to of bringing my elements into the boarder. Yes the quilting in the boarder forms a musical staff with music notes.
The next part is for you Finn.
Finn this is one block of a group that I will show
you more of later. These blocks were done by my Grandma. All of 30's, 20's and flour sack fabric. The muslin is actually flour sack fabric. The green & lilac are 30's fabric. Another blog I will show you the rest. Ok Finn. Your challenge is to see where the added piecing is. That is why I showed you the back of the block.
Here is another one with the same mix of fabric. No extra piecing in this one. By the way, anyone that is a stickler on whether piecing is cut on the grain not bias, should not look too closely. I think that that was not as important when one was trying to use any scrap one might pull together.
2 comments:
What wonderful blocks Rae, you are soooo lucky to have something that your grandma pieced...i would love to be able to say that!!! She did an wxceptionally fine job...cause I can't see where anything extra was added. It's unusual to have that seam in the upper square where the diamonds come together, but it sure would have simplied the pieceing. Two trianges added to the diamond rather than a Y seam.
Even from the front I could tell it is hand pieced. You get so you automatically look for the stitch spacing that tells you it's hand pieced.
I hope you plan on finishing these into a quilt of some sort..*VBS* Thanks for sharing..I look forward to seeing more of them. And you are right, the bias wasn't as important to them, just whether or not the scrap was big enough to cut one more pattern piece..*S*
Hello again Rae, I came back looking for that extra piecing..and there it is!!! Wow, that's the hardest one to see ever!!
What a great job she did of it. Quilters are the most amazing people....Hugs, Finn
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