From My Closet to New Homes

Here are two VERY happy quilts, to no longer being relegated to the closet where it's dark and stuffy and crowded. They yearn to be open and lying flat and impressing others with their beauty.

They went to live with a Cuban family who escaped Cuba last year with only the clothes on their backs. Seems like the father was a threat to the government because he was talking about Jesus and how He offers people real freedom. No, no! You can't say that in a communist/socialist country. He was on their short list for jail.

We are helping them set up housekeeping nearby. Bedding, kitchen things, you know the drill. This first I've shared before. I found 40 of these hand-pieced Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks in a thrift store in Cape May, New Jersey about 35 years ago.

FREE PATTERN! This can be converted from hand piecing to English Paper Piecing. Just use 1" hexagons and the results will be the same.

 

Cape May Flower Garden: 82" x 88"

My oldest daughter is not happy with me for letting one of my 1930s quilts go. I promised she can every other one!

Here's a peek at how I arranged the blocks (which were appliquéd to background strips of green). The black horizontal lines indicate where I stitched each block to it's neighbor.

The next one is a real beauty, too. I designed it for Quilter's World magazine in 2007. It's a Dogwood Blossom pattern with 15" blocks. Here's the photo from the magazine.

Pink and Green Dogwood Blossom quilt: 65" x 83"

Here's a photo of the flat quilt laying on my living room floor:

Dogwood Blossoms - 12 blocks!

Dogwood Blossoms will become a free pattern soon. For now, check out the Cape May Flower Garden quilt!

I gave the family two other quilts (they have two children in their teens), but I didn't make them and don't even have photos - but they truly are lovely!

Now these quilts are FINALLY happy.