In August, I agreed to help Darby's cousin (well, the grandfathers were brothers, the dad's are first cousins and I guess, Darby and Buffy are second cousins?) with a few of her mother's UFO's. The Mom is a quilter, 87 years old and suffering from dementia and is unable to sew and/or quilt. I immediately agreed to help without really 'knowing what' I was getting into...
The first project I tackled was this little quilt. M (Buffy's mom) was hand quilting it. Buff said that I could totally remove any stitches and finish it on the long arm. It just about broke my heart to take out all the hand stitching but I finally am nearing the end of the stitch removal.
pattern: BQ 2, I think.
Another box I received from Buffy had a notation on it: 'just needs borders', easy right?
This is a mystery from 2001. M had already cut the final border wider than the pattern suggested so I just continued on her path. This is a monster! 75 x 95 inches! Unquilted!
I 'knew' I was close on batting but I lost 'batting chicken' today. :(
Sharing today with The Inquiring Quilter's Wait Loss Wednesday.
6 comments:
Bless you for taking on the project! It's so frustrating to come a smidge short of batting.
How kind of you to help out like this. I wonder what other treasures you will get to work on?
Oh Pat, what a blessing you are giving to M and her family! What did you decide to do about losing at "batting Chicken?" Did you add a strip of batting to the bottom of the quilt? I assume you're quilting this with an allover E2E design, right? If so, you could just trim the shortage amount from all four outer borders of the quilt before binding and no one would be the wiser.
So nice of you to help out!!! The pink/grey quilt is a beauty!
Nice quilt... I'm with Rebecca -- I'd trim all 4 borders an inch or two. I think that wide border overpowers the beautiful quilt. My 2¢. You are wonderful to help out your friends/family.
Funny, when I saw the batting chicken I thought the same thing as Rebecca. Since the borders are overlarge, trimming them down seems a sensible solution. How nice of you to help finish these! They will mean so much to the girls. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss. https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2025/10/01/wednesday-wait-loss-452
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