Quiltingboard Forums - maintaining the legacy

Our small church congregation was blessed for many years with a dear lady who made embroidered day-of-the-week cup towels for all our brides and "summer" quilts for all of our high school grads. (Summer quilt in my vocabulary is a two piece creation - with no batting. I know this gets debated that by definition a quilt requires batting and I don't mean to start that issue. These light weight covers are more squishable, packable, stuffable, and are consequently quicker and a bit cheaper to make.)

The sweet lady passed away last year at the age of 99. She had been too frail to keep up her self-made tradition for a few years. My daughter - married in 2002 - received a set of the cup towels and both my children - 1998 and 2000 graduates were given the quilts. At her funeral the minister asked for a show of hands of those who had been gifted with a "Mama C" creation and ... it was amazing how many hands went up. I even have one of the quilts I got as a door prize at a ladies' retreat.

So... when I started quilting one of my goals was to restart her tradition. This is the 3rd years I have made them for our graduates. Being a small congregation this usually means around 4 quilts. This year it's a whopping 5. :)

The outdoors one is made of flannel fat quarters and uses the pattern "Cheaper By the Dozen". It's backed in flannel also. Sure wish I knew where I bought these fq's. They were a set on an online site. The flannel is really nice!

The dark blue one uses a charm pack - or two - with a couple of yards of the blue. The pattern is a modification of Moda's baby quilt "Baby Line Dance". Their web site has this free pattern.

The brown/orange one is based on the jelly roll race idea, but uses a honey bun instead.

The batik/black one uses the pattern "Cloud Nine". It's one you find at the quilt shop on small laminated cards. The fabric is all from Connecting Threads.

The red, white, and blue one is another "Cheaper By the Dozen" pattern. When I go on a shop hop I like to pick up red/white/blue fat quarters. This gives me something fairly cheap to pick up. I get one or two at different shops and after a while have a little collection of them. When I need something for the last minute this is my go-to pattern and colorway. (I didn't know this young man was graduating. I started cutting the fat quarters at 4:00 PM today and finished the pull-over binding around midnight.)

The finished size of each one is around 60 X 70.

So "Mama C" --- I remember and I'm trying to pass it on!