Ode to Quilter’s of ’57

Ode to Quilters of ‘57

Before leaving for our extended summer vacation throughout northwest USA and Canada and Alaska I had cut pieces for a quilt that I might work on while traveling. I did take my Featherweight Singer machine thinking there would surely be rainy days when we wouldn’t be touring or sight seeing. I got all the block pieces done and the individual rows sewn and then we were into Alaska and all sewing ended. I have a commitment to finish the 2018 raffle quilt for the Texas quilt guild but for breaks I pulled out the blocks and have begun to work on them. It is just not me to work on only one project at a time and a diversion is needed sometimes when working on a large project to change my tension (not the machine but the human). So one of the thirteen blocks has been completed. Three blocks will make up the quilt: Farmer’s Daughter, Sister’s Choice and Grandmother’s Choice. The working title of this project is “Ode to the Quilters of ‘57” in remembrance of my grandmother’s quilting group.

The same blocks are being used in the raffle quilt along with a couple of others so perhaps a pattern for others to use will emerge from the two projects.