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.
To create the look of a vintage piece, I chose calicos, polkadots, and gingham checks, very popular in the 1940s-50s. Their pure colors and white backgrounds add a cheerful, summer feeling that reminds me of line-dried laundry, fresh pressed linens, and the like. In fact, I can easily picture this in my grandma's midcentury kitchen.
When I showed the quilt to my friend, Ruth, she offered to finish it for me. I could hardly believe my good fortune!
Just look at her marvelous quilting... Can you see how the perle cotton subtly catches the light?
Strawberries on the back add even more retro charm.
Turns out, a quilt was the perfect way to preserve that vintage berry. Thank you to Vicki Haninger for her inspiration and to Ruth, of course, for seeing the project to fruition.
Strawberry Preserves
15” x 17”
machine pieced, hand quilted
2019
