RugosaB

My husband's Grandma died 6 mos after we were married, and I inherited her quilts, in various stages of being sewn.
There were a bunch of hand quilted maple leaf blocks, with a graph chart she drew of how she was planing on putting them together. We've been married 31 years, but I only tackled this quilt a year ago, mostly because I am Not a hand quilter, and like I said, these were all pieced together by hand. To me, they deserved to be handquilted.

I guess it took this many years for me to discover what I called 'Big Stitch' quilting. I just outlined each leaf shape, and used various fall colors.
Not perfect, maybe not even worth being on the same quilt as her hand stitching, but it's done now, and certainly worth having it's photo taken. It's just going in the 'quilt cupboard, with a short note of its history, for my kids when I'm gone
I'm also going to frame the chart and stick that with it too