One more quilt...

that I haven't shown you. I did use it in a staged picture of my vintage boxes last year. Here is how it came to be...*VBS* As a new resident of a small town, I was invited to stitch with a group of older ladies. At one of the very first gathering, my hostess gave me a box of hexagons that were already cut in this size, 2" (unfinished). She had 6 hexs for each flower matched up with centers but no piecing done. Over the next meetings I hand pieced 20 flowers, but since I was in the process of my big hexagon Honeycomb quilt, I didn't really want to add diamonds or setting hexs to these flowers. So I laid them aside. Four years later, at another new job location, I was desperate for something to work on over the Christmas holiday period when the kids were all home. I cut out twenty squares of bleached muslin and appliqued the flowers on to the squares. When that was done, I joined up the blocks, and used a nice piece of 36" lavender(also from Irene), basted the top and began quilting. I generally use Mountain Mist batting, for the look I wanted, I used MM Light...a very thin batt. The quilt is about 36" X 45". The cross hatching is at 1". I had tried 2" but found it was too much space between the lines. The flower fabrics are the "real deal", fabrics from when Irene was a bride, back in the 1920's. She had always intended to make the quilt, but the babies started coming along and she never got around to doing it. I treasure this little "pass along" quilt and some pieces of her fabric stash that came to me after her death. She had left instructions for her fabric to be divided up amongst her stitching group..*VBS*