When I was sick, cold, sad, or happy, this quilt fit the bill.
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| My daughter hamming it up for the photo shoot |
Around college, I decided it needed to come live with me. I
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| This is Buh and my little boy this past Christmas. She's 94 and wonderful! |
Until I started quilting, I never paid any attention to the fabrics in this quilt.
For all the reasons I love it, the fabrics were never on top on the list.
But now, I see all the fabrics with fresh eyes- and some of them are so fun- like this
or this drink fabric
(lemonade!)
or this.
Seriously I would LOVE to have a yard of this!
And although I'm not big into novelty prints, how cute is this little guy?
The fabrics are so random and oriented all different ways in no regard to each other.
Now that I am a quilter, I am so curious as to how this patchwork quilt came about and surely wish I knew the stories behind those pieces. It's such a hodge-podge.
Its been so well loved that it is coming apart in places.
I wish you could feel this quilt- its as soft as your old favorite t-shirt. I'm sure it's most likely due to the millions of washes and age of the fabric.
The binding was hand sewn and the quilt was tied with green thread. The back is the same solid lime green as the binding.
This quilt is big, twin size, and perfect for a picnic or a fort or snuggling on the couch with your lovey.
It's inspired me to make a big patchwork quilt, and I'm planning to use some fabrics from my Rainbow Fabric Swap.
And although it's not the go-to quilt anymore, it still gets a lot of love.
So tell me, do you have a long-loved go-to quilt? And what do you call your grandmother?
20 comments:
What a wonderful quilt! I don't have any heirloom quilts, but I made one for my daughter in the hopes that she'll treasure it the same way you treasure yours.
I love your question about grandma names. I miss my grandmas - I lost both of them in the last 18 months. Both were called Grandma. My daughter has a special name for my mom, though: Ama. :) It was her way of saying "Grandma" when she was just a wee thing - and it's always stuck.
My grandma gave myself and my 2 sisters a quilt when we were younger. I believe my great aunt made them for her to give to us girls for Christmas presents - according to my mom. Mine is green and the fabric is super random. I remember staring at it for hours when I was a kid, matching up where the same fabric was in different spots on the quilt, picking out which blocks I liked the best, etc. Even now I use it when our apt. is too hot because I can't sleep without a blanket and this one always remains cold.
Thanks for the fun post - it has inspired me to do my own about my quilt one day soon :)
I do. I am lucky to have a grand mother and great grandmother who both quilted. I called them Nunnie and Maw Maw. I still sleep with a silky quilt that my Maw Maw quilted for me at birth. It is one great striped log cabin. It has only recently begun to fall apart, but after cough34cough years of being washed every could of weeks, not so bad! I am currently toteing around the last quilt my Nunnie hand pieced in my van. The fabric isn't so impressive. It is just some cheapy fabric she picked up at Wal-mart I bet, but it's a bow tie pattern. I have this idea that if I drive around with it long enough that I'll find an eventually find an estate sale selling vintage sheets and will find the perfect blue flower sheets to go with it.
Just to be clear, I have only the quilt top, I'm looking for sheets to complete it. Baby was up all night long.
I haven't made 'the' quilt yet! I would love to make one as treasured as yours.
Both my Grandmas are/were Grandma, but my mum is Ooma, named by our eldest when he first started talking.
I do have a family quilt, made by my great-great grandmother. Its a nine-patch of (original) feedsack fabrics. Coming apart in places, but dearly loved. All of my grandmothers were called Grandma. However, our 2-year-old granddaughter calls me "Magaw." Love it! = )
What a beautiful story about this quilt. I did not have a favorite quilt growing up...but I called my grandmothers..."Grandma and Babka". Grandma was from Czechoslovakia and Babka was from Poland. I am called Bubbi...it's Yiddish and although I am not Jewish I love the sweet picture it conjures up in my head...a little old lady, so lovely and sweet, feeding her grandchildren sweets while she loves them like crazy. That is me...except for the little old lady part!
What an awesome story! No one in my family quilts, but I wish I had something beautiful like that with so much history!
Well i don't have a go to quilt (no quilters here) but I do have a go to gran! Until I was 18 I had a Nana (great grandmother) a gran, and a granny. Now I just have the gran and granny, one about 5 miles away (gran) and the other about 250 miles away. This afternoon I took my gran, her good friend Jenny, and Jenny's daughter to high tea, lots of fun with teeny wee sandwiches and cakes :o)
Hi!
I don't have any heirloom quilts, but I am a new quilter too and I have my first quilt that I finally finished last fall. It has been washed numerous times and is achieving that soft, vintagey feel!
I had a Grandma and a Nana, both of whom I miss very much!
I grew up snuggling under a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt made in the 1930s by my maternal great-grandmother. It has long since fallen apart. I can't imagine my maternal grandmother ever sewing except under great duress, but "Grammy" was wonderful all the same. My other grandmother ("Nanny") was a quilter, and her house was full of lovely traditional hand-pieced quilts. They've both been gone for well over a decade now. Thanks for reminding me to think of them today!
I love your story!
I had a bow tie quilt from my Dad's grandmother - my mom would add it to my bed in the wintertime - it was so heavy and kept me cozy and warm!
I received a super soft and cuddly blanket for Christmas last year. It is the family favorite and keeps ending up in different rooms around the house. As for grandmother's names, my grandma's were just grandma. My son calls his grandmas Noggy and Narnie.
I really enjoyed that post - thank you for sharing it with us.
Both my grandmothers were Nanna; my great-grandmother was Gan to all her grandchildren; my mother is also Nanna, and Gran-Nan to her one great-grandchild; my husband's mother is Grandma (officially) but she usually gets Gran or Granny from all seventeen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren; my grandson will call my son-in-law's parents Opa and Oma and my husband and I are Grandad and Grandmum. I chose that because I didn't want to be Nanna, Grandma or Granny. About a year after Grandson was born I read a book about my great-great-grandmother who was known as Grandmum Agnes to her family - isn't that amazing?
PS You have inspired me to write a post on family names; is that okay with you?
That's a great quilt, particularly with all its history, I'm sure your children will enjoy it as much as you.
I too had a fantastic gran, she passed away very suddenly in March, she too was 94, she was known as Granno to all the grand and great grandchildren. Your gran looks like she's in very fine fettle!
Aww, I love it! I don't have any vintage quilts (no one sewed in my family) but I really love looking at older quilts when I come across them! I bet you could look at those prints forever :)
What a fabulous old quilt. So lucky that you have it still!
I call my Grandma Gram - but my oldest boy named my dad 'Popa' when he was little, and that is his name to this day!
Great post. I have a hexagon quilt on my wall right here by my computer. It was made by my grandma about 60 years ago. I'd love to have a yard of several of the fabrics! I should do a post on this quilt! Thanks.
I don't have one of those go-to quilts...yet. My mom has one that her great aunt made for her from clothing scraps. Nothing special with the fabrics, but it is so well-worn and loved that it is falling apart, too. I hope it will be mine one day. :)
My grandma's go by Mammaw and Mandymaw. With the latter, one of my older cousins couldn't say "Grandma" and the name just stuck. I've dropped it since getting older and call her Grandma, but the other is still Mamaw...and she quilted, too. :)
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