Saturday, April 12, 2008
Irene's Story Told in Stitches
Clay's aunt, Irene Minor, kept the squares of this quilt from before her marriage until just a few years before her death when she had it put together as a "tied" quilt in the late 1990's. Each of the squares bears the name of a family member or friend who embroidered her signature and pieced the frame around the center piece with chosen fabric. Just seeing the names of Nellie, Myrna, Irene, and Florence is a reminder of a gentler time and how these women we love and remember shared their lives as well as their stitches.
I would like to collect some stories about the ladies I don't know much about. If you recognize a name, won't you post a brief comment sharing something you know or love about the life of that person? We all would be better for remembering what they left for us from the way they lived their lives.
If you know the name of this block pattern or the making of this quilt please post a comment.
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diYou just get more bang for the buck with the video insert, don't you. Very nice music.
Good project. Noticed only one signature was not between the points. Does the lady who put her signature square unique in other ways?
On a different note, Clay and Carol need to go to Main Plaza for a look-see before heading to Maine.
I recently saw a similar quilt pattern in a Houston museum and it was called Turkey Tracks. In a search online it appears there are several variations of this pattern with different ratios of the central piece to the surrounding track pieces as well as different numbers of "toes" in the track sections. Also called Wandering Foot with a legend that anyone who slept under this quilt pattern develops wanderlust.
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