Part Three of How Quilting took over life and the Family Tree quilt that is to blame!
........Months and months had passed. Countless books, magazines and innumerable yards of fabric had been acquired. It was finally time to put the quilt together.
In retrospect the process seems painless now, but at the time it was anything but. Because the 'tree' part of THE QUILT would cover most of the quilt, the entire quilt had to be pieced before I could start the process of putting on all that applique.
The sky was all squares and half square triangles. I'd asked my mom for a blouse - she had no idea what for - and planned to use it in the sky portion of THE QUILT. She handed me a pink/white striped blouse.
Oooooookkkkkkaaaaaayyyyyy. I was a little worried about how it would fit in, but as it turned out - it gave some sparkle to all the blue I was using.
That yellow fabric you see was some fabric my grandmother had purchased (probably in the 30's or 40's). I used some of it for the sun in the quilt. There was also fabric from an aunt and an uncle and some fabric from my grandmother's nightgown. I'm telling you - I threw in everything I could think of into this quilt.
Once the background was done the arduous process of all that applique' began. It seems like it took forever, but finally the quilt top was coming together.
I added some blank leaves and the butterflies to sort of 'gild the lily'. It helped with the blank areas of THE QUILT.
It was quilted my Michelle Wyman (an extraordinary quilter here in the Atlanta area! http://heartandsoulquilts.com/).
Finally after well over a year since I first saw that Simply Quilts episode - I got to give my mom THE QUILT as a (OK it was a little late) Mother's Day gift.
And I've been quilting ever since. Someone should warn people about this hobby! I now have four sewing machines, a serger, an embroidery machine and a longarm machine. World travel would have been a less expensive hobby!!
What am I working on now? Stay tuned!!
Dave
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