Orphan Blocks to Quilts, Day 3

A simple bedsheet was languishing on a table at an antique vending mall. I was drawn in to the beauty of the sophisticated hand embroidery. One dollar? That's all you want? She's mine!

It sat in my closet for a few years. I would pull it out from time to time and then it hit me - this is NOT going to be a bedsheet for any one of my grandkids! This is NOT going to be subject to bed wetting and throwing up and go into the washer over and over.

I was teaching free motion quilting classes and I decided to use what I taught to transform this. Here she is up close:

Mary's Little Lamb

I gave this to my sweet granddaughter Eva and her mom promptly hung it over her bed. Here is the full quilt/sheet.

Quilted lamb bedsheet with wide binding

And here it is hanging above Eva's bed (with another of my quilts on the bed).

It is good to rescue these things. Whoever the maker was, I'm sure she would be thrilled to know that I elevated it from bed wetting to glorious wall art!