Unfinished Quilt Stories
I went through my boxes of unquilted tops the other day and counted them up. I was pleased to find I had less than 20 (ok, 19 but who is counting) and that doesn't count work in progress so the numbers will be going up soon.. Took pictures of all, and had various thoughts. Most of them haven't been quilted yet because I just haven't gotten to them. For the last couple of years I've been able to use a friend's long arm but that access isn't what it once was so I'm looking at ways to get more things quilted.
A lot of time I'm just quilting because it's what I do, but some of these unfinished tops have unfinished stories so I'll share them here. Please join in with your own stories if you wish.
Unfinished Quilt Story 1 -- Delectable Mountains/John's Quilt
I started this top for my Hubby's dad. He didn't know what to think about his son up and leaving his whole life to marry some woman from the internet, but we were able to meet and he was sure that I loved my hubby and would take good care of him, even if I was taking him from "home".
John had a good life, part of that was taking care of his aged father from ages 70-96+, one thing he learned from that was he didn't want any extreme measures. When confronted with some basic health issues (diabetes, heart, etc.) that could be controlled by medication he opted not to treat, and he died within about 2 years from the doctor's warning in his mid-60s, he thought he'd have a couple more but we didn't.
I don't know when/if I will finish this top. I want to do sort of a swirling wind design in the background but don't really know how to achieve what I want, and then a radiating spiral out of the stars. When I took the corner shot, I couldn't find the backing fabric (which I later did but that box was already packed) so I shot the binding on a pillow since I felt the kraft paper was too close to the background.