I am the baby of the family. My brother and sister are only 18 months apart. I came along a little later. Judging from the looks on my siblings' faces, I'm not sure I was welcome!
I have made her two quilts. The first was very early on in my quilting 'career' - being made in 2016. Someone hung the quilt up in her tiny apartment.
For a while my sister lived near Santa Fe, NM. She loves the southwest, and when I saw the fabric, and when I happened upon the embroidery patterns, I was inspired to make this quilt.
I used 'stack and whack' to create the colorful blocks. I didn't have enough fabric to do more than 4 pieces for each block, but it worked out.
I used an appliqué machine embroidery pattern for four of the blocks.
I fell in love with the mottled red fabric. It reminded me of some of the pottery I've seen on our travels.
I designed some SW Indian-looking motifs and embroidered them using my domestic machine.
Even now I look at this and I'm in awe of what I managed to do.
In 2021 I completed this bright quilt and sent it to her.
She keeps it on the back of her couch.
She has always loved bright colors!
The last time I visited she was wearing a jacket that my mother quilted.
Just by chance, I was wearing one I had made....
the first quilted object that I ever made!
(It was made using a quilt-as-you-go technique on a deconstructed sweatshirt.)
Beautiful work! I cannot even imagine doing something like this. Your sister seems contented.
ReplyDeleteMost of the time she accepts her situation. Other times she gets very angry. She will say she wants to go back to her big house, and she thinks she has a car, too. She can't recall where the house was. She doesn't remember that she had a dog. It is so sad.
DeleteWhat beautiful quilts you made for your sister and the machine quilting on the buffalo quilt is excellent, too. Love the jackets you two are wearing!
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Thanks!
DeleteWhat lovely quilts !!
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