Something I never noticed....

Every day at lunch, I slip away from my desk 

and go into one of our spare offices.

I browse all your lovely blogs...

This week, one such blog prompted me

to come home and look through 

some of the quilts that were left to me by my 

mom's mother and I began to see 

things I never appreciated before about 

one of my favorite quilts that she made.

From back here, you don't notice much...

but come with me, while I show you what I 

noticed today, in part, 

because of all I have learned from

reading all of your blogs when 

I first started quilting ...

 

First, this quilt is completely hand made, no sewing machine needed.

I believe it is called a window quilt.or something close to that...

if you know the official name, comment and let me know!

Second...every fabric in this quilt is a piece of one of my

grandmother's dresses or shirts...and she cut nearly all of them...

in a fussy cut.

Next, even though her stitches may not be the best, or the 

most creative, it is all her stitching and I am pretty 

impressed at how uniform and perfect it looks.

I know this is a HUGE QUILT by ANY STANDARDS.

and I have it on good authority that she only quilted on her bed.

Can you see how she pieced this entire quilt - hand sewing 

one block at a time to another block?

and let me tell you ...that the quilt is all cotton 

and the thread is still strong.

But here is the cool part...

Mind you, I have had this quilt for about 15 years.

and I use this quilt...every winter.

 AND I JUST NOTICED THIS...

In a small corner of this lovely masterpiece,

My grandmother signed the quilt.

She put her name..first and last.

and then...

something I hadn't seen.

 

She put the date she started the quilt... 3/28/1976

and the date she finished.... 9/20/1977

How COOL IS THAT?

Finally, 

This quilt weighs14.3 lbs.

It has NO batting...just fabric and thread.

I love this quilt on my bed...the weight 

of it hugs me to sleep every winter night...

Such a legacy...and I didn't even really 

appreciate how much time, work and love 

that went into it...

but I finally do now.