Tags
to turn a quilt top into a quilt. Until a top is quilted, it’s just a top. The other day I picked up my very first, rotary cut, machine pieced quilt top from Margaret. It’s journey had spanned 17+ years, and too many homes to count as a top.
A few weeks ago I found it in a scrunched up ball sitting in a small paper waste bin and decided it was time to give it a purpose.
House quilt
That’s my eldest son, now 20+, holding up the quilt for me to take a quick piccy, and he used to use this top as part of his cubby building in the lounge.
So what to back it with? I knew I wasn’t going to spend money buying backing fabric, so I dug out some fabrics I had decided to donate and pieced them into a backing.
When Margaret saw the backing, well, words failed her! The back is made from fabric that nowadays I wouldn’t buy in a pink fit. The scary thing was I had enough to actually make a backing.
Well so much for me being a Repro Girl!
But looking at the front of the quilt is fun. I loved those Red Wagon Plaids, and recently used some to piece some Ohio Stars for my Chilli & Chocolate quilt. This quilt is a little bit of a quilt fabric history tour of the mid 1990s.
So I’ll make a label with the quilts story, attach it and bind the quilt in a nice red I think. And thankyou Margaret for quilting it and turning it into an actual quilt.
Jenn
ps WordPress just told me this is my 50th post!
5foot1quilts 
yes never too late, I must blog about that log cabin of mine but I think your houses are easily five years older. it looks great and it was a pleasure to quilt…next please 🙂
Mx
So, time to put the border on my 1930s summer quilt then? Oh and isn’t it hot today! too much, too soon!
A long time from start to finish. A house quilt is always good in my eyes.
I am pleased it’s now a quilt. Every home needs a house quilt.