Originally Posted by SandyinZ4

Hi quilting friends,
Somewhere on one of these topics someone was asking if it was better to make perfect quilts or just make them for practicality. It just so happens, I was looking through my stash one day and here is what came from that. I am not a perfect poet so excuse the lines if they aren’t exactly in sync. Will enclose a picture of the quilt that inspired the poem. I wanted to practice my machine quilting so just used it to experiment on, too. When I was finished, I threw it in the washing machine to get some of the stiffness out of it. Now it will be a nice enough quilt for any small child.



Dear Sandy

What a lovely quilt, and all from scraps. I'm making table runners for a craft show. May I use your idea of how to use scraps?

A QUILT STORY
By Sandy M.

As I looked through some fabric scraps
A friend had passed to me,
I found a stack of quilt blocks
As lonely as could be.

Their edges were not even
And their sizes did not match.
So she had tossed them in the box
To add them to my stash.

I looked at them a minute
And then I thought, “Why not?”
It wouldn’t take me very long
To sew them into blocks.

So I began to measure them
And found that nothing matched
But even so thought, “What the heck!”
As my sewing plans unhatched.

Often the points might overlap
But I did not get mad,
For as it came together,
It didn’t look so bad.

And just a couple hours
Was all it really took
And so I laid it on the bed
To see how it would look.

Amazed, I looked and smiled
And much to my surprise
It really looked quite lovely
To my wide-open eyes.

Then a thought popped in my head
How much like it we are,
With cut off points and crooked seams,
From perfect we’re so far.

Yet each of us is quite unique
And if we’re really truthful,
If one does not look really close.
We’re all warm, cuddly and useful.