The quilts in the slide show that is below have a story behind them, and I wish to tell it now.
The dresden plate looking one, was originally fan blocks that had been hand pieced and hand blanket stitched by my grandmother Clark. The blocks had ended up in possession of my Mother, who in turn asked me to make quilts out of them. I came up the dresden looking one, and added the triangle pieced blocks to accent the little triangles in the corners of each of the dresden blocks. These quilt blocks had been sew together over 45 years ago.
The Overall (or Sunbonnet) Sam blocks were in the same pillowcase as the fan blocks, so I took them and made the other quilt.
When the quilts were both finished and I took them out to show my mother, she asked to pick which one I wanted, and we were to take the other one out to my sister. I chose the Sunbonnet one, as I have never been really fond of greens, and it just so happened, that my sister's bedroom is done is greens, so it matched her decore just perfect, and she was absolutely thrilled to receive it.
I feel that the hard work that my grandmother put into to making the quilts has been uniquely expressed in the finished quilts. I hope you enjoyed looking at them. It was really a treat for me to be able to piece them and then do the quilting work on them.
