Memories

I’ve relatively recently connected with some first cousins I didn’t know, and it’s been a wonderful experience! They’re all so fun and warm that it’s tragic that we’ve missed so much time together. However, we now have the future, so things could be worse. 🙂 The mother of three of them was my father’s younger sister, and she was a quilter. When she died, she left a stash (how unusual, right? LOL!) and some unfinished projects. Among the projects was a set of hand pieced Grandmother’s Fan blocks, one of which was hand quilted (see photo at right). They were obviously going to be done in a quilt-as-you-go style.

I took a couple of the blocks home with me after a recent visit with my cousins in San Antonio and copied the quilting motif onto these blocks as a memento for each of her three adult children. Unfortunately, I don’t hand quilt any longer, given problems with my thumbs, so I had to do the quilting by machine, but at least these blocks are quilted now. I was lucky in finding some dark brown solid fabric to bind the blocks, too, though I completely forgot to take a picture once I’d finished — I was in a hurry to send them off to my cousins.