Mum’s quilt for Rachel
My mum is so obsessed with quilting now - she took it up just after Christmas and quite a few of us in the family have been lucky to receive some beautiful quilts for their birthdays. If someone in the family hasn’t yet, then they probably will sometime soon!
Mum has become so addicted to this new hobby - on a recent weekend away with my dad, she nipped in to a local quilt shop in the town they were in and then proceeded to rinse the fabric out in the motel bathroom so that it would be preshrunk and ready for her to start cutting her squares as soon as she got home! I told her she should have just taken the sewing machine with her and she said she had thought about it…
She recently finished this one for my neice Rachel (17) and it was also her first time doing machine applique. We were all so impressed with the results.
Here is a closeup of those great flowers on the border:
The pattern for them is really so simple - after getting the inspiration from a book she freehanded the shapes and then used vliesofix to keep them in place, before doing a machine blanket stitch to finish them off.
If I didn’t already have so many hobbies, then I would be joining her. I will get to quilting one day but not today.
What a lovely story. Quilting is one of the crafts that not only gives great satisfaction to the quilter but can be taken up at any age - it’s never too late. Receiving such a wonderful gift of love is great too!