Another old project

This quilt was made for Taylor's friend, Justine. She was getting married. The pattern was named Nebraska which is where she was from. Marian and I quilted it on a long arm machine we rented from Pappy's quilt shop. I did some of the piecing while Marian and I were on a trip to Philadelphia. It was finished in 2009 and I gave it to her at her wedding. Taylor was in her wedding so we drove to Nebraska for the festivities. Mom went with us. We had a great time. Besides the wedding, we visited the zoo, there was a quilt show and we saw the quilt museum at the college there. The drive was horrible but it was a great trip.

The first made for me

For many years I carried around quilt blocks that my Granny made for me. She died in 1982 before she could put them together to make me a quilt. My Mom promised to make them into a quilt when she retired. She finally retired in 1997. This quilt is one of my most treasured possessions. Mom hand quilted it. It is always on my bed.

Quilts from my past

Since I can't make enough things to post on this blog every day, and I want this blog to be a diary of the things I made I decided to do some posts on past projects. I am going to start with a paper pieced project I completed one year. It was my New Year's resolution. Carol Doak, a paper piece quilt block designer, published a book of 300 blocks. I started on New Year's Day of  2010. Here are some pictures.

It has three blocks I had signed by famous quilters - Alex Anderson, Susan Cleveland and Eleanor Burns. They were in Knoxville that year teaching at an AQS quilt show. I did not finish the quilt until New Year's Eve but I did finish it. It is one of my favorites. 

Blocks for guild meeting

This month's block exchange is a paper pieced block by Carol Doak. It is a free download on her website. It is to help teach paper piecing. I enjoy paper piecing. I made four blocks and I may try to make a couple more before our meeting Tuesday. What do you think? Update: I made four of the seven blocks and I still didn't win. Lol

The bottom left has seersucker. I also bought some seersucker fabric this weekend. I am going to make a quilt out of it. I can't wait to see what it looks like.