Concord, Cranston and Peter Pan

Here is my finished Triangle Quilt. I don’t usually name my quilts, but this one is titled Concord, Cranston and Peter Pan after the fabric manufacturers of most of the fabric in the quilt. It measures about 74” by 86”. The HSTs - all 957 of them - are 2 ½” finished. My inspiration came from this antique quilt I found pictured in Mimi Dietrich’s Quilts An American Legacy…

Here is the back of the quilt. I can tell I was just trying to get it done quickly.

My inspiration for the back came from this quilt in the book Virginia Quilt Museum by Joan Knight…

Here are some closeups-

I had to chuckle when I read on Barbara Brackman's Material Culture blog that she has a new fabric collection coming out featuring calicoes from the 60's and 70's. Click here for a peek.

I’ve read on other blogs that some of you like making little quilts because they are faster. They may take less stitching time, but for me they do not necessarily get done in less calendar time. The Triangle quilt took me 4 months to complete. This little blue and white took about 4 years to complete.

I made the little top and it sat. I quilted it last fall and it sat. I wasn’t sure what fabric to use for the binding. A couple weeks ago I auditioned fabrics again and this itsy bitsy flying geese (Civil War Crossings by Barbara Brackman #8121 – Susquehanna 1860-1880 for moda) was easily my favorite. I picked this fabric up at a guild yard sale this past spring. So glad I did!

These are just the finished blocks.
I have 25 more in various stages of completion.

My poor sewing machine has gone 14 months without a proper cleaning. After making a gazillion pineapple blocks for a guild demo (it went well), I decided I needed to give the thing a break. I’ll take it to The Quilt Patch tomorrow and hope I can get it back in a week. In the meantime I will do some hand stitching and prepare t-shirts for a t-shirt quilt I’m making for my niece.

Here are some spools I’m hand piecing…

Do you see the little shoe pin cushion? Our Irish neighbors, the Murphys, gave that to me after one of their trips back home. That was back in the early 1970's. I would have been a young teen. I guess I brought my embroidery with me when I babysat their daughter.

I just outline machine stitched this table runner for my church auction. Others will bind it. Sorry for the blurry photo.


I posted about this lone star on January 1. It was one of three projects I wanted to make headway on this year. I’ve thought a lot about all three, but haven’t done anything. I finally picked this one up and pinned the 4 segments onto the background. I had to do some creative pressing to make them meet correctly at the center. I had tried sewing the segments together, but they just aren’t going together smoothly. I did a poor piecing job. Let me know if you don’t think appliqueing them to a background will work. I plan to do it by hand. My motivation on this one is to meet the Springfield QU challenge “diamonds are a girls best friend”.  The completed quilt is due in February.

I didn’t realize how much I like 8-pointed stars. I recently became reacquainted with this quilt in Scrap Quilts The Art of Making Do by Roberta Horton. Mabry Benson was copying an antique quilt top when she made it. It is one of my all time favorite quilts!



Happy stitching!