Tilly and her birthday quilt!
Look at that gorgeous honeycomb quilting!
Our youngest grandchild, Matilda, turned one this week. Her mama, her Auntie Gretta and I started working on her birthday quilt last February. Lindsey collected fabrics from her stash and from a Dear Stella series. She had some ideas about a piecework pattern and Gretta drafted it for us, with each of us piecing a third of the quilt top. Lindsey and Gretta sent their sections to me in Vermont (thank you USPS) and I stitched them together with mine. When I went out to visit family in Detroit in April I took the quilt top with me. We three shopped for a backing at Ann Arbor Sewing Center. Then Lindsey made a roll of binding, made the backing, found some batting and dropped everything off at Amy’s place, for some long arm quilting. Lindsey and Amy decided that a honeycomb pattern would be just right. The quilt found its way back to Vermont this summer, when Lindsey and her family came to visit and we sat around on the three season porch and sewed the binding on together.
On the design wall in my studio in Vermont
Lindsey, Gretta and I have collaborated on quilts before and it’s such a lovely way to stay connected to my girls who live far away from Vermont. We enjoy making quilts to celebrate special occasions, knowing that they will keep loved ones cozy for years and years to come.
And there’s not a lot of room for melancholy when you have a needle and thread in your hands. Come to think of it, a need and thread are little things, too.
:-)
P.S. Lindsey took most of these photos and gave me permission to share them here with you.
P.P.S. I am finally responding to your kind comments on my last post.