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Another beauty.

QuiltingGrannie

I have the one and only quilt my mother (and I - age 10) made. She used wools and tweeds on one side and cottons on the other. All the fabric was from her stash from all the clothes she had made us over the years. I never knew my Mom to wear store bought clothes.
All the pieces were 3 inch squares and then tied, not quilted. It's really heavy, but my Dad liked the weight of it on their bed.

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And finally, my dearest quilt......I remember Mother's aprons, my sister's school costumes and the stories Mother told me of her Mother's swatches. These blocks stayed in a box during my childhood and she would let me carefully play with them. "One day", she always said, "I will finished them." And sure enough she did at the age of 91. Notice the whiteness of today's fabric blocks compared to the old blocks. Shortly after finishing the quilt, Alzheimer began stealing her mind and her ability to even do embroidery work. She passed about a year later. I miss her and wish she could see my quilting.

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Up Close - final posting of photo sharing. Thank you and hope you all have enjoyed seeing what I love sharing.

wesing

I have some quilts by my paternal grandmother (one hexagons, one triangles), a top made by a paternal great-grandmother and quilted by my grandmother (carpenter star), and a quilt made by my maternal great-grandmother (squares). My wife has a couple of quilts from her maternal grandmother (one squares, one Sunbonnet Sue). Only two of them are in good enough shape to use, but they are still treasures.

Darren

CarolLady

I have two quilt tops that were made by my dad's mom. The smaller of the two have a few squares missing out of it. The larger one just needs to be put together. And then I have pieces and some hexagon shapes there is even a metal template for the hexagon shape. They were all hand done. I am afraid if I try to do anything to them I will mess them up. Still in the thinking process. The hexagon things scare me, the pattern looks so complicated and the pieces are so small. Some day I will try to remember and take a picture of the tops and pieces. My grandma passed away when I was really young, so the tops have been around awhile.
I also have a wedding ring quilt that my bosses gave me years ago, it was completed.
And a crazy quilt from my dad's mother I believe. It has seen better days need to see what I can do to help it have more days.
It is really neat to read the stories behind everyone's quilts.

wesing

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I can relate to your mother's illness, because both my grandmothers died after long battles with Alzheimer's. I'm glad you have the beautiful quilt to remind you of your mother's better times. I know it brings you a smile of joy to see it and remember her.

Darren

Suzanne57

My great grandmother and my great aunt made this quilt in the mid 1950's. She hand pieced and hand quilted a quilt for each of her grandchildren. She had 8 children and they all had big families so that's a lot of stitching!

craftybear

Wow, I am so excited that I started this thread, I just read all of the posts and now have tears in my eyes, what cool stories and love seeing all of the old quilts, treasures!!!!

Thanks everyone and hope to see more posts and pictures. It sure brings back memories.

Be sure to grab you a kleenex as you read the stories and see the beautiful quilts!

Craftybear

Pam

The quilts that are posted are beautiful. I surely hope that this thread gets longer and longer with pictures of more beautiful quilts.