Great Grandmother Laura Goff (1868-1962) had set the blocks together by hand, with no white hexagons around them. It looked very jumbled.
In 1991 I took the blocks apart and washed them. The next year, I cut out white hexagons in and sewed them by hand around each block, completing the top. The hand quilting was done in time to give it to Mom, Doris Wilson Neal (a granddaughter of Laura Goff’s), in time for Christmas that year.
A cheerful treasure!
A total family heirloom!!
Thanks, GP!
Love, love, love this, Joy. What painstaking care to take it all apart and lovingly wash each treasure and then put them all together again. You amaze me! xo! 🥰
Bless you, Vicki!
Hugs and love! 🥰❤️🥰
I’ll bet Doris was thrilled to get the quilt her grandmother started and her daughter finished! There is love in every stitch, not to mention how pretty it is.
And Doris loved yellow because it’s so cheery!
Even better!
Wow! What a beautiful quilt!!! I absolutely love it!
Thanks, Linda.
You did an excellent job. How special!!
Thank you, Darlene.
I agree that the white borders set the flowers off very nicely. Beautiful!
The white borders is traditional for this pattern, but maybe she didn’t have any. Thanks, Eilene.
My God, that’s beautiful.
Thanks, Rich. I hope my granddaughter will enjoy it someday! (She’s almost 8.)
It’s wonderful that you are quilting like your grandmother did, Joy. It looks beautiful.
Thank you, Tim. I suspect that she planned to “tie” this one with yarn every so often, but it was worth hand-quilting.
My mother-in-law quilted, Joy, and it was beautiful. Now that mother-in-law died, my wife is quilting beautifully.
Does she do it by hand? It was the most relaxing for me, but even my cousin who owned a quilt shop used a long-arm quilting machine.
She does most of it by hand, Joy. At times she uses her sewing machine.
She’ll never be bored!
So special, Joy, and what a beautiful quilt!
Thank you, Lauren.
Your quilt really is a gorgeous work of art, Joy. The color patterns of the hexagons are beautiful. 🙂
Thank you, Nancy. I bet Great Grandma Laura planned to tie it with yarn every so often, but it was hand pieced so I hated to let that happen.