Hi everyone. Hope you had a great summer! I used the time 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.
Embroidered motifs like this are typical of the 1930s-40s when they adorned household linens such as tea towels, tablecloths to dresser scarves and pillowcases. Also popular at the time, calico, polkadot and gingham check fabrics were ideal for contributing more vintage charm.
I hated setting the project aside, but by 2009 I couldn't do handwork anymore. Fortunately, my friend Ruth offered to hand quilt and bind it.
seems the weakness and lack of dexterity in m. A sweet quilt like this deserved better, so I showed it to my friend, Ruth, who's an , she offered to finish the project for me!
Just look at her beautiful stitches. When the perle cotton catches the light, it adds a subtle sheen to the overall design.
As it turns out, making a doll quilt was the perfect way to preserve that vintage strawberry! Thank you to Vicki Haninger for the inspiration and to Ruth, of course. for seeing the project to fruition.
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Strawberry Patch Preserves
15” x 17”
machine pieced, hand quilted
2019
