A Prairie Home Quilts

1930’s Quilt

prairiehome — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:18:09 +0000

At least, I think it’s a quilt from the 30’s. The fabrics look like the reproduction ones available today. I found this quilt at a local flea market for $25. I’m sure the quilt police would be after me if they knew what I was going to do with it, but it’s destined to be cut up and used as backdrop in vintage wooden window frames and the rest made into pillows. In defense of my actions, I will say there is a number of large rips and many places where the fabric is completely worn away. (Yeah, yeah, I know some of you aren’t going for it. . .) *smile*

I like the way the quiltmaker mixed the large and small dresden plates together. Click on the pictures to enlarge them so you can see the fabrics better.

It looks like the quilting is some sort of chain pattern around each plate and then it’s repeated in the first border.

I *love* the way the outside border uses the pieces of the small dresden plates. . .

and the way it just curves right around the corners.
Sewing on the binding took some work!

Wedding Pictures

prairiehome — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:53:45 +0000

Well, it was only about 7 weeks ago, but here are some wedding pictures finally. And, no, I never did get the quilt top done in time for the wedding, but my wonderful son understands fully because. . . he’s just like his mama. *smile*

My new daughter-in-love, Koren

The beautiful bride

The handsome groom

My son, Nathan, and his dad

WIP Progress Report #10

prairiehome — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:59:09 +0000

This is the last one of these for a while. *smile* This weekend is the wedding in CA and then Sunday I fly to OK for a week. When I get back, I’m finishing up Nathan & Koren’s wedding quilt top to drop off to be quilted, I’m finishing up the top for the musical scrappy, and I’m sewing the valance for my room. Then I’m done machine piecing for a while. (I’ll post pics as I complete them.)

I’ve left out some hand sewing projects to keep me busy. I’m a little bummed that I didn’t get the wedding quilt top done, but all in all I’m happy with what I have accomplished since I started the push to get some of these things off my list before packing in earnest to move.

Valance - my room (HSY)
Musical Scrappy - 76 blocks completed/23 more to go
Scrappy #2 - I’m packing up the pieces for this one to finish up at another time
DWR - I ended up putting this away also. When I get it out again, at least I’ll be happy to have all the arcs done.
Nathan & Koren’s Wedding Quilt - 12 blocks completed/30 more to go

WIP progress report #9

prairiehome — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:47:06 +0000

Valance - my room (HSY)
Musical Scrappy - 76 blocks completed
Scrappy #2 - still squaring up half square triangles for this one
~~Goose on the Loose~~ - DONE
DWR - 5 of 40 melons completed
Nathan & Koren’s Wedding Quilt - 12 blocks completed
Oklahoma Backroads - Cutting and organizing scraps

I finished Goose on the Loose although I wasn’t paying close enough attention and sewed on all my small flying geese units going in the wrong direction. (Not that anyone would notice necessarily, I suppose, unless you were really familiar with the pattern.) I will probably add borders at a later date even though the pattern doesn’t call for them because it’s a small quilt without them (36″ x 48″). I packed this up with the rest of my “set aside” projects. I have worked on blocks for Nathan & Koren’s quilt. I thought I’d have the top whipped out in no time (like a day), but I was surprised at how long each block is taking. It takes about 30 minutes from start of sewing to ironing for each block and there’s 42 of them; so when I did the math, I realized that’s about 21 HOURS worth of sewing time. [sheepish grin] So I’m plugging away at them a few a day.

I should have more accomplished than I do but haven’t been feeling up to par nor sleeping very well because my sinuses are all clogged up. I finally started taking some colloidal silver and this morning I can feel my sinuses starting to drain. Hopefully I’ll get some energy back soon. My mother is [impatiently] waiting on me to finish up a few machine quilting projects before I take down my machine so she can put the house on the market. I need to get a move on. . . [sigh]

We lost a treasured furry quilt inspector this week

prairiehome — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:42:13 +0000

On Monday our beloved pet, Muffin, passed away. She’s been a part of the family for almost 15 years.

DD-Jessica was seven when she got Muffin.

Muffin was the haughty queen of the household and the best cat we’ve ever had. She was never any trouble and always very neat–except for the two litters of kittens she delivered under DD-Jessica’s bed instead of in the nice boxes we’d prepared for her. We will miss her.

Even Ludo seemed a little sad that day.