Hello 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.
Nothing says 1940s-50s like calicoes, polkadots, and gingham checks.
When I showed the project to my friend Ruth, she generously offered to finish it.
Just look at her beautiful stitching. She put crosshatching through the 2" squares...
and cables in the daisy-print border. Can you see how the perle cotton subtly catches the light?
There are strawberries on the back too.
Turns out a quilt was the perfect way to preserve this embroidered berry! 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
