This picture is of a found quilt top. I found it in a bag in my first sewing room with another quilt top while I was cleaning this sewing room out in preparation to move into my current sewing room. I have no idea where I obtained these quilt tops. It could possibly be from a silent auction at our quilt guild Camp Stitches event.
Last month I trimmed the edges and bound this quilt. I still have the second quilt from the "found" bag to trim and bind.
But the best part of this is that I found a home for both quilts. My DIL's mother (Julia) said she wanted me to make a quilt for her. I told my DIL that I had some quilts already finished and would like her mother to see them before we talked about making a new quilt. I would be glad to make her a quilt, but since I have so many finished quilts that are not being used, I was hoping she could find one she liked in my quilt stash.
DIL and her mother came by today (with my darling grandbabies in tow). I had pulled out a couple of quilts last night in preparation for the viewing today. I thought Julia was only looking for a king size quilt for her bed. She decided on one of the first two quilts that I had picked for viewing. Then I brought out three other large quilts that still need binding. She liked all three of these quilts, too. So after I bind those quilts I will gift them to her to use on the other beds they have in the house.
This quilt has an interesting design, yes? I wonder what this quiltmaker had in mind when she was making this quilt. Was it intended to be a larger quilt? Did she become sick and could not finish it? Maybe she became tired of it and decided to stop where she was at? Or maybe this is what she had intended for the design all along. What do you think?
Happy Thinking and Quilting
