After I made my first quilt, I decided to make a quilt for my older sister, Suzie. The main problem is that most of the fabric from my purchased scrap bag were gone. No problem. Mom had plenty of scrap fabric. Mom was fine with me using her old fabric. So off I went cutting squares.
Here is the result:
Now I was the first quilter in the family since my paternal great-grandmother (long dead), so there was no one to tell me the "rules" of quilting, like you should only use woven cotton fabric. Thus this quilt has some interesting fabrics in it like polyester double knit, velveteen, corduroy, and fake fur.
Inadvertently I had created a memory quilt for my sister. These fabrics were from items our mother had made through the years.
Next to the lovely beige double knit is the eyelet fabric my mother used to make my flower girl dress for my cousin's wedding.
The purple fabric is from the dress my mother made for me for Easter when I was third grade. I got the measles that year so I wasn't able to go to church on Easter Sunday. As for the orange corduroy, who knows, it was the 1970's.
The polka dot fabrics were from bathing suits. the blue and green print was a bathing suit cover up my mom made for herself. More of the beige doubleknit and some gray corduroy.
More of the gray corduroy next to the fake fur that my sister had a bedspread made of when she was in high school. Above the lovely yellow strip doubleknit is a blue flowered fabric. My mother made matching dresses from that for my sister and I. Note to parents, do not make your 15-year old daughter wear a dress that matches the one her 4-year old sister is wearing.
