Today is international quilt day so I’m taking a quilter to lunch. My friend Win and I will visit a fabric shop, drool, fondle, caress and otherwise covet the fabric there.  Lord willing we will leave the shop empty handed(like that’s going to happen!)
My sewing mojo is a bit slow these past few months, so I don’t know if I will take the time to quilt today or not. I will spend some time in my sewing room, sorting, pressing, and tidying up as the painters will be here in less than a month to paint the entire house.   This evening I intend to watch the movie "How to make an American Quilt, on the Bravo channel.Â
Of all the quilts I own there is one that means more to me than the others.  When I first began quilting, I lamented to my Mom that I wish I had a quilt of my Nanny’s. She suggested I call my god-mother as Mom thought Nene might have one ot two of Nanny’s quilt.  Nene told me I had called just in time, as she had one of Nanny’s quilt left and she was considering giving it to the Salvation Army, because no one wanted that old thing. The edges are all frayed.  Gladly I rescued it.   The quilt is not labelled, but my Mom can remember Nanny working on it in 1968, the year my brother Todd was born. The stitching is remarkable, very precise. Other than a few frays around the binding the quilt is in very good shape.Â
How sweet that you have such a sacred momento.
Will you be adding a label?
I wish I had a braided rug that my granmother used to make or that I would have paid better attention so I could replicate one.
Happy for you that you got your quilt just on time. My old quilts now have story labels. With a textil pen I have written down all what i now about them. Just because i have the feeling that if I only have it on a paper or in the computer it might be gone. One of my quilts have a very similar pattern as yours. The lady how did it made a lot of them so I have seen six. The oldest is dated 1936. The batting is 1 1/2” thick. For that reson the quilting is ruff. The poorest quilt i have seen is fiied with newspapers from the 1 world war. That one was not made from the same lady.
I never thought to add a label, some days I’m just toooo blonde. I’ve been looking for a way to use pillow cases my godmother embroidered for me, so maybe I could make the labels from them saving the pattern and adding the details of Nanny’s quilt.
I have been quilting for 10 years and haven’t heard of international Quilters day.s it always on March 21 or is it the Saturday closest to it/ Thanks.