Monday, October 10, 2011

An really Old Family Quilt

Well maybe just an old family quilt. Grandma J. made this quilt a long long time ago the 1940s  (I think, could be wrong about the date). This quilt was on family beds for years and now resides in the family vacation cabin still on family beds. Grandma J would not have won any quilting awards. Like herself her quilts were quirky. She was not a fan of the saying measure twice cut once. She was more of a measure, well guess the size cut and if it isn't the right size cut again or add another piece. It was a quilt you were making, you were going to sew it together anyway. If you look closely at the stars in this quilt you will see that not a single point matches quit right and all the squares are different. In fact I think the crazy quilt pattern was her favorite for making start. She made quite a few in this general pattern. And every one of them is fun, colorful and not quite perfectly square. Even After Grandma A. spend a long time in the 1960s trying to get the points to match up. Grandma A was a firm believer in the measure twice saying.

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