Hello everyone. Hope you had a great summer! I used mine 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.
Aren't these retro-style fabrics fun? Calicos, polkadots, and gingham checks were very popular in the 1940s and 50s.
My friend, Ruth, was so smitten with the quilt she even offered to finish it!
Just look at her tiny stitches... i really like how the perle cotton subtly catches the light.
Putting strawberries on the back added 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
