When Jeanette asked me to take a few of her quilts home so that they can be flat on a bed for a while, this was one of them. With one large dog and 2 cats her house is not set up to display her "good" quilts.
I still remember when grandpa and grandma Helmuth went on holidays to the States for a few days. Grandma found this pattern for a cross stitched quilt top. She had bought the kit and spend the following few winters making the top.
It is a beautiful design with lots of different colors.
Once the top was finished, she quilted it, all by her self.
Really, 100% of this quilt has been done by her.
Then when Jeanette and Tony got married, grandma choose this quilt to give to them as her wedding gift.
Right now, she cannot display it, but she hopes that in the future she has the right place for it.
It has been another busy week with specialists appointments for grandma and dentist appointments. Right now Shawn is home for a few days, so we want to spend as much time with him as possible.
He will fly back to Calgary at 6 tomorrow morning. That means leaving about 4.
It will be a short night!
I'm allready packed to go and teach in Burlington tomorrow. This will be the last workshop for this year.
Last week I send a picture of my crazy quilt to a quilter by the name of Allison Aller, who is very well known for her crazy quilts. I asked if she had some ideas about how to put my crazy quilt together. She gave me some great suggestions.
According to her I should put some thought into what I put on the back. Now for me a backing just means to get a piece of fabric, preferable matching the front somewhat, and that's it. I knew I wanted to use the fabric my mother had bought years ago to make a Hindelooper costum. She never got around to it and finally gave me the fabric. Over the years I had used some of it, but I did have enough left to make the back you see here. Then I used some of the lace I used for the front and covered the seams with that. The lace is then embroidered to the background. This is all I will do. The next step will be to do some hand quilting around the blocks and around the border. The rest will be tacked together with beads. How I have not quite decided. It will be one step at a time.
I still remember when grandpa and grandma Helmuth went on holidays to the States for a few days. Grandma found this pattern for a cross stitched quilt top. She had bought the kit and spend the following few winters making the top.
It is a beautiful design with lots of different colors.
Once the top was finished, she quilted it, all by her self.
Really, 100% of this quilt has been done by her.
Then when Jeanette and Tony got married, grandma choose this quilt to give to them as her wedding gift.
Right now, she cannot display it, but she hopes that in the future she has the right place for it.
It has been another busy week with specialists appointments for grandma and dentist appointments. Right now Shawn is home for a few days, so we want to spend as much time with him as possible.
He will fly back to Calgary at 6 tomorrow morning. That means leaving about 4.
It will be a short night!
I'm allready packed to go and teach in Burlington tomorrow. This will be the last workshop for this year.
Last week I send a picture of my crazy quilt to a quilter by the name of Allison Aller, who is very well known for her crazy quilts. I asked if she had some ideas about how to put my crazy quilt together. She gave me some great suggestions. 
According to her I should put some thought into what I put on the back. Now for me a backing just means to get a piece of fabric, preferable matching the front somewhat, and that's it. I knew I wanted to use the fabric my mother had bought years ago to make a Hindelooper costum. She never got around to it and finally gave me the fabric. Over the years I had used some of it, but I did have enough left to make the back you see here. Then I used some of the lace I used for the front and covered the seams with that. The lace is then embroidered to the background. This is all I will do. The next step will be to do some hand quilting around the blocks and around the border. The rest will be tacked together with beads. How I have not quite decided. It will be one step at a time.
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