Showing posts with label Handkerchief quilts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handkerchief quilts. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Quilts and Gardens


Children's time at the Blair Memorial Library

This month our Clawson library quilt display includes two that I made quite a while back.

 Children of the World is a vintage pattern which I crayon tinted and embroidered and hand quilted.
Saucey Senoritas is a commercial pattern that uses handkerchiefs for the skirts of lovely Spanish ladies.

Quilts by my Tuesday quilt group include:







The library is next door to the Clawson Historical Museum which has lovely gardens courtesy of the Garden Club.
Blair Memorial Library

Garden Path at Historical Musem
 

I am progressing on the MODA Bee-autiful Quilt-A-Long blocks. They are a great summer project!







Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Quilt Display, Gifted New Handkerchiefs, 1857 Update

My quilt guild has a display at the Royal Oak Public Library. This was my library when I was a girl & teenager, so it is so special to share some of my quilts there! I helped set up the display last night during a snow storm.
I brought my quilt based on the Morning Glory fairy in A Year With the Fairies by Anna O. Scott. It is mixed media using crayon tinting, embroidery, appliquéd silk flowers, beading, and a sheer net overlay. The pink fabric is silk.
 My handkerchief border quilt includes embroidery based on a 1930s greeting card vintage buttons.
A part of my Redwork based on illustrations from Reggie's Christmas can be seen on the shelf below. The book was read by my mother-in-law who got it from her uncle James O'Dell.
The left quilt below is a folded bow-tie. The doggies are wool appliqué on cotton.
 So many cute things were offered for the display, small quilts and pot holders.
 Scott T. Dog uses reproduction 1930s fabrics.



Yesterday morning at my weekly quilt gathering's show and tell I saw a quilt based on The Fiona Quilt Block by Carolyn Perry Goins. I will have a photo later. And a lady gave me some handerchiefs from her collection.


AND, between my morning group and the late afternoon gathering I met with a lady to guide her in making her first handkerchief collage! She had a wonderful heirloom collection of laces, trims, and dress pieces from her mother and grandmother. I want to go back and get photos!

I finished six blocks of the 1857 Album from Sentimental Stitches. 

Little Hazel from Esther Aliu has been showing up on her Facebook page in extraordinary manifestations! The interpretations are remarkable! I eagerly await the next part to be released!

Friday, February 5, 2016

Valentines and Romantic Quilts


For February our local library has a display of vintage valentines and 'romantic' quilts have been hung.



 


 Shirley L. made this vintage handkerchief quilt embellished with machine embroidery.
 My handkerchief/pillowcase/embellished wall hanging.
I used an embroidered pillow case as my surface
I love that handkerchief so much when I saw another I snatched it up!

And my Vintage Rose is there, made from an embroidered doily, vintage quilt pieces, and embellishments.
I have some vintage valentines in my collection. I made turned several images into embroidered patterns; one has handkerchief points in the border. I sell the patterns at Rosemont Needle Arts on Etsy.


Some of my vintage valentine cards: