GRANNY'S SEWING ROOM: Garage Sale Quilt Update #2

 Here is another finished quilt from a quilt top I found at a garage sale:
See here for the original post.

I put some square machine embroidered 'quilt blocks' in the large green squares. 

Good practice on my embroidery machine and good quilt for charity.  I will be giving this and the other one I've finished so far (see the post on it here).

This is a close up of one of the blocks.  There are ten different ones.

Here are a couple more close ups. I guess the flash made the picture color of little off..










This and the other garage sale top I finished are going to the Children's home.

FRUGAL GRANNY: Antique Quilt Top Finds

I picked up 3 antique quilt tops from a garage sale this morning and only paid $5 each!  These were all hand pieced by the woman's mother-in-law and her mother.  I cannot believe she would part with them and at such a low price, but who am I to argue with the woman??

This first one is the smallest. It is a throw size quilt (roughly 60x42) and is Mark's favorite. I will quilt this up and keep for myself.


 It is very colorful and most of the fabric is the old feed sacks. I took a close up of some of my favorite designs.

 Look at this fun rooster!

I have found no stains or holes (as of yet)in this top.
It is absolutely gorgeous!

 I believe this cat is from the same fabric as the rooster, but I really liked the animals. Just a fun quilt to look at.

 This second quilt is a bit larger, approximately 76x84.I think it looks nice. Mark doesn't like the large empty spaces, but I said that was for the hand quilters to put pretty designs.  I am not a hand quilter, but am thinking of doing some redwork type embroidery in the large blocks.

It appears to be made from shirts.. All the blocks have stripes or plaids, except this one block, which is made from prints.  The square blocks definitely look like a 30s print to me.  There is a stain on the one triangle here.

 Here is the other stain on this quilt. Both look kind of like 'rust' stains.  This stain is on the green solid.  This doesn't quite feel like a feed sack, but also doesn't feel like the shirt material; maybe it is  flour sacks?

The last quilt is a 16 patch set off with blue blocks.
It is about a 78x66 size.

I haven't found any stains on this one yet.

And I plan, again, on doing some kind of redwork embroidery in the large empty blocks.   Maybe I'll do a design in gold to match the 16 patch blocks.

Here is a close up of the back. It seems such a shame to machine quilt these wonderful hand quilted pieces, but I am not a hand quilter.

These last two I will finish up and donate to charity. This year my quilt group (the Calico Cabin Quilter's Sew-ciety) are giving to an orphanage.

But then again, I will probably make at least one quilt for the Joplin survivors. I might send these to Joplin and make fun quilts for the orphanage.  When I get these done, I will update the post. :)

GRANDMOTHER'S SEWING ROOM: Baby Quilt from a panel

 I made this quilt for a friend's baby. I started with a panel, added a blue border, then pieced a brown and tan border.

This is a close up of the middle of the panel. Usually baby panels are bright and colorful. These soft, muted tones are just so sweet!

This is what I put on the back.  The jelly fish don't quite go with the theme of the toys in the swing, but the colors were muted, too and I thought they went well together. I used this with a darker piece to make the final border on the front.  And aren't those jelly fish with the eyes just cute as can be??

GRANDMOTHER'S SEWING ROOM: Quilt for Japan

 Here is the quilt I sent for the survivors of the Japanese tsunami.
They quilts went to quilters newsletter first. That gal is collecting them to ship to the editor of a quilting magazine in Japan.

 Don't know if you can tell much, but I embroidered (by machine of course) geisha girls on the dark pink blocks.

Here is another one. I had 9 or 10 different ones.

GRANDMOTHER'S SEWING ROOM: Puppy Quilt

 This is a machine embroidered quilt that my mother and I made. Each of the machine embroidered dogs is different. I found the cute puppy material to put between the blocks.

 Some more details of some of the embroidery work done. Also, if you look closely, you can see some of the quilting. It is not clear here, but the quilting pattern is dachshunds.

 In this photo, you can see the back end of one of the dachshunds on the quilting pattern and the front of another dachshund.  It is a continuous line pattern that I saw in a book and drew it out on a long piece of paper off a fax machine roll. I drew enough to put on the quilting machine for tracing onto the quilt.

 More embroidery detail plus you can see more of the dogs printed on the fabric I used around my embroidered blocks.

I made these pillow cases to match the quilt. The bottom of the case is the backing fabric that I used on the quilt.  I gave this quilt to my husband's brother Geary and his wife, Vernetta. They own a kennel called "Show-me puppies". I didn't get a photo of it, but I quilted that name across the top of the quilt before I started quilting the rows of the dachshunds.

GRANDMOTHER'S SEWING ROOM: Embroidered Quilt

When my brother-in-law had a kidney transplant, I made this quilt to auction off to help him with expenses.  My mom (Kathleen Cockrum) embroidered redwork western motifs on black squares. Each block is different -- when we ran out of designs, we flipped a few of them so they would technically still be different.  Some of the embroidery designs take over an hour to sew out, not including the time lining up the fabric in the hoop, finding the pattern, and transferring it to her Janome sewing card.  We had 40 embroidered blocks, so imagine all the hours my mother spent at the sewing machine for this!
I then set the pieces together with bandanna fabric.  I drew (from pictures I found on the internet: I had to get ideas from somewhere!!) the pantograph quilting pattern out on a roll of fax paper.  My aunts Marge and Cleo have a short arm quilting machine that we use for our quilting.  I put the photo in x-large mode so that you can see the details of the quilting: I alternated cowboy hats and boots!  Loran has always been into horses and horse shows, and was president of the Saddle Club for quite some time! (in case you're wondering why the western theme).  The quilt was then sold at a benefit auction held for Loran. I cannot remember what it went for, but every little bit helped!