This started with a charm pack of "Christmas" fabric, the "daily deal" from Missouri Star quilt shop. The pattern I chose is from one of her magazine's too.
I added lots more Christmas fabrics! And machine quilted it myself....it is for grandsons in Idaho!
Merry Christmas!
Found In a visit to Cimarron Heritage Center Museum in Boise City, OK.
The most western county in "No Man's Land", the Oklahoma panhandle is Cimarron County.
My family has lived there since the early 1900's when they migrated up from Texas! My great grandmother, Laura May Lightfoot and her husband Alonzo Ellis Parsley built an adobe home,which is still occupied, on the old homestead.
The adobe...this photo was from a time when it had been vacant for years.....
Now to the quilts....these hang in the Cimarron Heritage Center Museum.
I LOVE this indigo with red tied quilt! Especially the little sunburst block below!
This scrap/string quilt is hand quilted. It was a friendship quilt with embroidered signatures on the blocks....wait, that signature on pink in the upper left...."L. M. Parsley" ! That's our great grandmother, my sister tells me!
Laura May (Lightfoot) Parsley! It is hanging pretty high...I hold my cell phone up, straining....so of course, I am not steady....to get a blurry close up!
These were frugal times, most of the quilts here are scrap quilts!
Some cotton dresses are also displayed.
This black and white gingham dress was worn at the turn of the century!
This 1930's frock was worn by a school teacher....very small in waist and ribcage! No super-sizing back then!
The yoke and cap sleeves of this dress were constructed from packaged bias tape with a zigzag stitch! Someone had a nice sewing machine! The fabric of the dress is feedsack!
Love the blue buttons!
My sister near an antique stove and vintage aprons..
The Heritage center has lots to see....a dugout, a depot, farm machinery, antique cars....
A local stitcher made this excellent reproduction of Dorothea Lange's famous photo, "Migrant Mother"! Herd to believe it is thread on canvas!
A one room school house and a dust bowl exhibit....
The main office is a very modern style architecture ....former home of congressman Cox. Designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Inside is Mrs. cox's fabulous button collection...
AND you can't miss "Cimmy", the dinosaur! Here with my friend, Sally!
I finished this and mailed it early in the last week of April! A gender-neutral baby quilt!
On Friday, baby Ben arrived! Here with his proud papa! (Our son, Andrew!)
Another quilt sent earlier is this one....
made by me and quilted by my mother , another gender neutral quilt, as they weren't finding out before the birth!
This quilt is a birthday gift for our daughter, Laura.
We brought it to Georgia with us, for her birthday!
It is Queen size from a kit ordered from Glorious COLOUR, the website for Kaffe Fassett fabrics.
I have not made a quilt from a kit before, but loved the light bright floral pastel look of this one! Even so, I changed the border and the binding into non-Kaffe fabrics! A pale lime for the border and a very colorful batik for the binding.
I was beautifully quilted by Sonja Koch of Fayetteville on a long arm quilting machine.
I love how she did the swirls, leaves and flowers!
Just flipping through the pages from the early 1980's.
2 of my quilts featured in Quilter's Newsletter magazine....the bright red and yellow was a honorable mention winning quilt in a contest held by Woman's Day...and later featured in a book.
The Tumbling blocks wall hanging hung above my fireplace for several years....as seen in this photo of my sister, Elaine, during the 1980's.
This article was in the Arkansas Gazette Little Rock newspaper.
I designed a quilt for the 150th anniversary of the city of Little Rock. It features the traditional block called "Little Rock" and a spiky 9 patch star. I designed and drafted the pieced border.
More wall hangings from this era and an article in Quilt magazine.
Then, I was invited by Fairfield, the batting company, to make a garment for their fashion show at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX. I made a kimono using the "Tumbling Blocks" pattern. It was hand pieced and hand quilted....with some velveteen and border print added.
It was photographed on the model and was used in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine.
These were fun days for quilt making ......we were lucky even to find cotton fabrics!
VIP fabrics, Cranston print works, Peter Pan and Concord fabrics were popular!
These 2quilts are about to be shipped!
One is a disappearing four patch....
with a "Hello Kitty" border.
The other is a "plus sign" quilt in reds and aqua.
It has a peppermint striped binding.
The twins were escaping from their cribs and now adjusting to sleeping on a pallet. They will eventually each have a twin size big girl bed....below Sophie and Nina try out the pallet.
For now, their pink ruffled crib quilts, in a tangle here, are not quite big enough. The new quilts will be just right!
No matter where or what quilts...there is nothing sweeter than the sleeping child! Nina here.
This is a top from last year...pale and feminine. Selvedges with words like "fleur", and "garden"...with pastel string pieces. The one pale beige block in the center features the Eiffel Tower . The border fabric (and backing) has roses, post marks and cursive script and the word, "Paris"!
I had to use my Singer Featherweight on the kitchen counter to piece the back. Because MY back has flared up, and sitting at the machine is part of the problem!
Voila! The back is ready for the batting and quilting!
This will be a gift for my first granddaughter, I think!
