Originally Posted by watson's mom
Thank you so much for the pattern. I does not look too difficult so I will certainly try my hand at it. Your quilt is beautiful and you have a lot of patience to keep as long as you did and then finish it. Thanks again. Carol
Hi Carol, You're very welcome. I had put a lot of hours into hand embroidering each of those flower squares and was determined to learn how to quilt. My husband's two very elderly grandmothers were giving me pointers and all I can say is "oh dear." LOL. We drove to Peoria, IL to buy quilt batting and couldn't find any and JoAnn's didn't know where I could get any so Don's grandmothers told me to use one of my wedding blankets for the batting. The floral pattern showed through and I tried machine quilting it and actually had it half done - it was the ugliest quilt on the planet and I just couldn't finish it so I stored it away and vowed to complete one day after I learn a whole lot more about quilting and that's exactly what I did. I completed several beautiful quilts before I had the patience to rip that one apart and totally reconstruct it. The original was the flower block, plain white block, rotation but it just didn't work at all. I just love the end result of this one remodeled and Don said I can not give it away. We don't use it. I only bring it out when company is coming for display on the bed and people do ooh and aah over it. By the way, I did use scraps to make this quilt. Below are photos of the other two quilts using this pattern. The pink and lavender quilt have a square of pretty butterfly fabric in instead of the embroidered flower squares. It's beautiful but a little too color intense for my tastes but I had a ball making it.
CW's quilt is one I refer to as CW's memories. In the white squares I hand quilted pictures representing memories in his life. He's 12 now. We relcoated from IL to FL 4 1/2 years ago and they've visited us 3 times. He had his first plane ride, horse ride, boat ride and these are depicted in the different squares but they are quilted with white thread like pictures in clouds. For his I used sports fabrics. Tried to find golf but that wasn't a year for golf fabric so most of them are everything but. It's a fun and easy pattern to do.
You cut out your squares, frame your squares which make the blocks and sew them together - as you sew, the starts are made up of the corner of the squares and is beautiful.
Patty
Have fun and I hope you do give it a try.
Michelle's quilt
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CW's quilt
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