Summer is quickly turning to fall, but I’m just not ready for the change of seasons. I’m still focused on this summer’s project, a sweet little doll quilt featuring a vintage embroidered strawberry. Perhaps you remember it from here.
Embroidered motifs like this are typical of the 1940s-50s when they embellished household linens such as tea towels, tablecloths, and napkins. Calicos, polkadots, and gingham checks were also popular at the time, which made choosing my fabrics easy.
I finished the quilt top years ago but set it aside when I couldn't do the handwork. "What a shame," I thought, "to let something this cute go undone." Apparently, my friend Ruth agreed because she offered to finish it for me. How could I refuse?
Just look at her beautiful stitches. She used perle cotton for the quilting which added a subtle luster to the overall design.
It turns out a quilt was the perfect way to preserve that vintage strawberry. Thank you to Vicki Haninger for her inspiration and to Ruth, of course. for seeing the project to fruition. I couldn't be happier with the results!
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Strawberry Patch Preserves
15” x 17”
machine pieced, hand quilted
2019
I love that recipe and feel lucky to have one of the four quilts.
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Terrific recipe for capturing the essence of summertime. I really need to make more little quilts instead of always making lap size versions.
ReplyDeleteJust happy as can be!!
ReplyDeleteThat quilt is so sweet! And perfectly captures the essence of summer...which seems to be slowly slipping from our grasp.
ReplyDeleteNice post thaanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteI love how this quilt combines vintage charm with modern quilting techniques.
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