Wall Hanging 50th
#1
Wall Hanging 50th
Hello Quilters! I made a quilt for our 50th anniversary 5 years ago. I’m just now actually using it. I have this ugly long breaker box in my bedroom that I keep wall hangings on to hide it. I decided to make a wall hanging to match our 50 th anniversary quilt and also add the names of ones born or adopted since 2018. I have blank white snowballs to add more as the family grows. My quilt is like a family tree. Each block has info starting with our grandparents, parents, us, our siblings, our children, grandchildren, greats. I had some white blocks left so I added info about significant happenings in our lives over the years. You can see the quilt in my Queen Quilts album here on the board or this link might get you there. I tried to blurry the pic some because it has all our names, dates, etc.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...07-622246.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...07-622246.html
#7
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,654
Having a quilt as a family tree is a wonderful heirloom for your family. ...and now your wall hanging to add to your family history.
You are so clever toogie! Thanks for sharing your works of art. (heart) with us to admire. Happy New Year!
You are so clever toogie! Thanks for sharing your works of art. (heart) with us to admire. Happy New Year!
#9
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 164
The wallhanging
Hello Quilters! I made a quilt for our 50th anniversary 5 years ago. I’m just now actually using it. I have this ugly long breaker box in my bedroom that I keep wall hangings on to hide it. I decided to make a wall hanging to match our 50 th anniversary quilt and also add the names of ones born or adopted since 2018. I have blank white snowballs to add more as the family grows. My quilt is like a family tree. Each block has info starting with our grandparents, parents, us, our siblings, our children, grandchildren, greats. I had some white blocks left so I added info about significant happenings in our lives over the years. You can see the quilt in my Queen Quilts album here on the board or this link might get you there. I tried to blurry the pic some because it has all our names, dates, etc.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...07-622246.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...07-622246.html
#10
I had never started using it, so now 5 years later I finally have it on my bed. I had a wall hanging that didn’t work with the anniversary quilt, so I decided to add the children born after our 50th, that were not born before 2018, on the quilt and make a wall hanging to match. Our 50th was in 2018. We married in 1968. So we had 3 great grandchildren born and we ‘unofficially’ adopted Eva our granddaughter from Spain. You may remember Eva’s quilt I posted in a thread here when she graduated high school last year. Anyway, she has come back to attend college here. She was a foreign exchange student that my daughter had last year. She fit in well with us and us with her. So now she is family. She flew back to Spain for Christmas break to be with her family so I text her after I finished the wall hanging. She says, “Oh Grammmm!” She was glad to be included bc she loves the quilt.
Oh and the wall hanging took me 2 days. The five years was the length of time it took me to decide to use it.-lol what was I saving it for! We sound like our parents before us when they stored things away. Geez, we sound old!