Embroidered Family History Quilt
10-14-2019, 12:00 PM
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I'm duplicating the above in a bit of a diff style for my husbands cousin who shared allot of the family pictures and information.
My next project will to do another on his Mother's side...Then eventually my husband is one of 7 so I'd like to do all of them and their children.
Yes, it's so interesting to do research and find out abt the lives of these people. I literally spent 2 yrs locating and sending for original documents i.e. birth/death/marriage/burial etc...on all of them...I lucked out when his sister went to Germany to the village that his GGP's came from and found a local church who was willing to go thru their records and by those records we could track back to 1610...Prior to that we would have had to go to Austria which of course we didn't...But it's def a work for a detective and I enjoyed every min of it.
Even thought I'm the in law I knew these people and everything abt them...So I was the go to person for all the nieces/nephews when school projects re: family history came up.
My next project will to do another on his Mother's side...Then eventually my husband is one of 7 so I'd like to do all of them and their children.
Yes, it's so interesting to do research and find out abt the lives of these people. I literally spent 2 yrs locating and sending for original documents i.e. birth/death/marriage/burial etc...on all of them...I lucked out when his sister went to Germany to the village that his GGP's came from and found a local church who was willing to go thru their records and by those records we could track back to 1610...Prior to that we would have had to go to Austria which of course we didn't...But it's def a work for a detective and I enjoyed every min of it.
Even thought I'm the in law I knew these people and everything abt them...So I was the go to person for all the nieces/nephews when school projects re: family history came up.
10-15-2019, 02:18 AM
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Great idea. You and your family will enjoy that a lot.
A friend of mine did a photo blanket (she doesn't quilt) for her visually impaired grandfather (pictures were very large) of all his grandchildren. It hangs on a wall in his room at the assisted living.
A friend of mine did a photo blanket (she doesn't quilt) for her visually impaired grandfather (pictures were very large) of all his grandchildren. It hangs on a wall in his room at the assisted living.
10-15-2019, 06:51 AM
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What a beautiful keepsake and work of art!! Must of been wonderful even though a chore to take it apart , resize everything and put back to see how far you've come and progressed in your sewing journey.
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