::the mom:: Santas Parade of Nursery Rhymes Part 3

Here are the last of the blocks from the "Santa's Parade of Nursery Rhymes"
quilt that I haven't shown before.
All of these blocks were hand embroidered and hand quilted.

::the mom:: Santas Parade of Nursery Rhymes Part 2

Here are some more of the blocks from a quilt that I showed earlier called "Santa's Parade of Nursery Rhymes". Can you name the character or rhyme?

::the mom:: Santa's Parade of Nursery Rhymes

I have added the quilt label and finished the binding so that means it is officially finished!

I chose the yellow fabric with red polka dots for the sashing and binding, because it seemed to go with the mood of the nursery rhymes.

The name of the quilt is "Santa's Parade of Nursery Rhymes" by Jeanne Poore which is a historic redwork quilt from The Kansas City Star. Each square represents a nursery rhyme or story. Of course, there is a picture of Santa, too.

Another favorite is the blue fairy. (mmm, guess she is really the red, blue fairy) Do you remember which tale she was in? Yes, the story of a little wooden marionette who got his wish!

This jack in the box is the last block that I embroidered and I went a little wild...adding colored thread for the balloons.

Now here is the whole quilt. All finished and ready to display at Christmas or sooner.

-Vickie

::the mom:: spotlighting my grandaughter!

Since this week is my grandaughters' birthday, I wanted to star a quilt she made this summer while she was 11 years old. She did a great job and was intent on making a quilt for her stuffed bear who she calls "Beary Bear". She stuck with the project which took a little over a month, while she also enjoyed swimming, reading, hoseback riding, painting her fingernails, doing lots of other crafty projects and making new friends. It was such a fun time having her and her family so close for the summer. I put off getting the photo till I finally realized outside the airport was my last chance!

She named her quilt "Friends for Beary Bear" which is written on a label on the back of the quilt with her name, age, and year. She embroidered each little 5 inch white square with a simple animal from Anne's free pattern called "A Tisket, A Tasket". You can find it here.

I think she inherited some quilting genes! ...maybe from me, but probably from many grandmothers going back many generations on both sides of the family because she is a natural! (Her mother is also a quilter! She made a quilt in high school!) Happy Birthday!

~Vickie

::the gramma:: sisters four finished!

Your parents are here and we are sending these pictures of a quilt which I call "Sisters Four". The blocks were embroidered by me and my three sisters in the early 2000's. The picture of the single block was taken before it was completely quilted. The sashing fabric of tiny pink roses (around this block) was repeated in a very narrow bindnig around the final scallops of the quilt.

This is my last hand-quilted quilt which was finished last week. With Vickie's help we already have another quilt in the frames which is made from "feed sacks" of the 1930's.

{{edit by alison: Gramma told me that to make the scalloped edge, she placed a dish on the cloth and traced the edge, and just repeated it around the quilt. When it came time to quilt, she didn't cut the scallops out, but quilted up to about an inch away to give it a real pretty look once the scalloped edge was finished.}}

~Gramma Faye