Happy Tuesday Quilt #3, #4, #5 and 6

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#3
I made this quilt for our Friends, Sally and Gary.

As I told them, I have a new passion/obsession and my friends
and family are benefiting from it

Front

back

This is my largest one to date.  It kinda took on a life of it's own.

I finally finished hand stitching 160" 😝 around the binding.
If you are interesting in being my hand stitching sidekick, I'm accepting applications.

The entire quilt

on the back side of the binding.  38"x 45".

This one is for us
4th

Long story short  (really) during all this hot weather my neighbor had missing seeing us
out and about (we go out very early for our walk).  She emailed to check on me asking what I was up to in the heat.  I told her I was teaching myself to quilt, sent her the photos above.
After a few minutes, she wrote back.  Would you consider making 2 simple memory throw quilts
for my sister and I?  Their mom passed earlier this year.  They saved their Mom's blouses in the hopes
of finding someone to make the quilts.  I told her it would be my honor to do this. 
 After getting the parts and pieces off each blouse,
I cut ~130/5" squares out of about 25 blouses/tee shirts.
Front of first quilt:  I had forgotten how much tee shirt material crawled and puckered when
sewing on it. I didn't cut many tee shirt squares.
I was able to use at least one sq.of fabric from each blouse.

5th after squares were sewn

Alas each quilt offers me a new lesson.  This one is tee shirt material and
various other fabrics including seersucker were not user friendly.
Buttons were not originally a part of the plan; however,
due to many seams not matching I 'hid' the imperfection
with buttons at the corners.

As it turns out it looked a bit odd with just scattered buttons so I decided to
put buttons at all corners.

I'd like to give a proper SHOUT out to HER aka Tobi at
Daisy Downunder for suggesting iron on interfacing to help with the
stretchy fabric on the tee shirt fabric.  In a perfect world,
I probably should have used interfacing on any square that had a variety of
fabric types.
Number 6#

When my neighbor saw all the buttons on #5 she loved them and
asked me to put them on #6.
Below was taken before I added 30 buttons.

This pretty blue fabric has become my favorite and my neighbor liked it too.
I used it on both memory quilts

The sisters had 2 requests:
1. that I use fabric from each blouse and tee shirt
2. that I some how incorporate the appliques, lighthouse and palm tree and sailboats
into each quilt. I cut them off the navy tee shirt, then cut a 5" sqs. from the tee shirt
and appliqued them onto the navy 5"square.  Lighthouse was too tall so it
became leaning lighthouse.
I will be the first to admit there are several 'humility squares**'.
This caused me some anxiety, but as my biggest supporter aka Dad of Madi, said
"you have done as they requested."

** "Humility Square" is the one quilt square that Puritans or Amish quilters purposely created imperfectly in their quilts.  

I cannot honestly say I created them on purpose but
that is my Tuesday Tale and I'm sticking to it.  


My neighbor picked up both quilts on Friday July 19.  She got a wee misty eyed.
I am honored to have done this for them.
She recalls seeing Mom in all of these blouses...and that is what this was about
preserving Memories


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