thepolyparrot

I buy vintage or antique tops, but after getting burned a couple of times, I'm kind of persnickety, now. ;)

I love quilting someone else's UFO from who-knows-how-many years ago. I wonder about her - why she didn't finish it, why this fabric was in her scrap basket, did it come out as pretty as she wanted it to?

One of the smallish quilts I got in a batch is a Jacob's ladder bar - it's got a crazy mix of fabrics in it and even the patches were pieced in places - this lady used every teeny, tiny, little bit.

I quilted it up and gave it to my father in law for Christmas for a nap quilt. He loves it as much as I do and says he "wouldn't take for it," which is a charming Southern way of saying that he wouldn't sell it for anything. Very sweet thing to keep in my heart. He's such a good Pa.