Hi everyone. Hope you had a great summer! I used the opportunity to pull out an old project and get help finishing it up. It's a small quilt that features a vintage embroidered strawberry. Perhaps you remember it from here.
Retro fabrics like calicos, polkadots, and gingham checks give the quilt 1940-50s flair. It's the essence of summertime, don't you think?
My friend Ruth volunteered to finish the quilt. Just look at her beautiful stitching!
She crosshatched through the 2" squares...
There are strawberries on the back too.
Turns out, a quilt was the perfect way to preserve that vintage embroidery! Thank you to Vicki Haninger for her inspiration and to Ruth, of course, for seeing the project to fruition. XO
"Strawberry Preserves"
15” x 17”
machine pieced, hand quilted
2019