Something Old....

A while back, I had promised pictures of an antique children's dress that I was framing for my husband's 97 year old grandmother.  Well....I forgot to take a picture before I gave it to her and in all honesty if I remember to bring both the kids when we visit I'm doing pretty good!  So...to make up for it, I have attached a slide show of several quilts that she did.  There is going to be a quilt show in our small town next month and she was asked to display hers (since hers are hand quilted and most of the quilts to be displayed are machine quilted).  These quilts are FABULOUS!  She hand quilted all but the two standard nine block quilts for which she did the top, but did not have access to a quilt frame to do the quilting.  The tree quilt, the Texas star quilt, the grandmother's flower garden quilt and the 5 block were all done between 1932 and 1935.  The aunt of a man she was courting was a quilter and wanted to teach her.  So she spent a lot of time with that lady learning how to quilt.  In addition to those four, she made, I think, three others that she gave as gifts.  The two nine block quilt tops she made in the '80's.  I did a brief research to learn the names of these quilt patterns and on a couple of them I guessed, so if someone knows the proper name, please leave a comment so I know.  Enjoy....