Sally’s Cousin Quilt

About to Go Under Longarm Needle

The Short Cousins made blocks in 2011 so that each one of us could have a Cousin Quilt. Each cousin selected a theme and color scheme. Sally asked that each Cousin simply recreate the block they made for their own quilt for her quilt. Therefore, her quilt is quite a selection of colors and themes. There are 12 cousins minus Guy. Sally never completed her Cousin Quilt because there wasn’t a block for Guy. This year I decided to make a block for Guy and complete the quilt. Guy likes desert tortises, so I made a turtle block for him. One of the memories from my youth was going on a trip with Uncle Vaughn and family. We had to stop a lot so Guy could rescue desert tortises that were getting too close to the road. That’s why I made the gray corner—to represent the road. I also remember Guy feeding prickly pear fruit to the tortises he collected, so I added a “tuna” to the block. I bought the pattern that I used to make the tortise from an internet web site. To make a quilt with 13 blocks I added a plain block between the Cousin blocks. The plain blocks were made with fabric Sally selected for the back. Hopefully the quilt will be big enough for Sally’s antique 3/4 bed (it was Tata’s bed when she was a girl).

• Size: 75 1/2" x 75 1/2" Double bed size for a bed with a footboard and head board.
• Quilting: Quilted in an overall meander, loose stipple in the plain blocks, a spiral design in the sashing, and around the designs in the Cousin blocks. Free form quilting. Used cream 100% polyester thread (Omni from Superior Threads-named "Cream"). 7 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Gray tonal print backing from my inventory.
• Batting: 100% cotton, Winline “Back to Basics”
• Piecing by Short Cousins, assembly by Patty
• Pinned into frame August 10, 2018. Quilting on long arm quilter August 10-17, 2018. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. Used the same plain gray that was used for the sashing, fabric from my inventory.
• QC by Spencer

QC

Guy Tanner Block

Purchased Pattern

From Left to Right:

• Row 1— Julia, Barbie, Patty
• Row 2— Lisa, Janet
• Row 3— Debra, Carolyn, Denise
• Row 4— Sally, Kristi
• Row 5— Kelly, Kathleen, Guy

 

Sally’s Block—Grandpa and Grandma Short’s House

This is the block made for Denise’s quilt, but Sally made an almost identical one for her quilt.

My Cousin Quilt—Colors Red, White, and Blue

Finished Dec. 2011

From Left to Right:

• Row 1— Denise, Miff, Kelly
• Row 2— Patty, Janet, Julie
• Row 3— Carolyn, Kathy, Sally
• Row 4— Kristi, Debra, Barbie

    

   

 

 

Aunt Joyce’s Heirloom

Halfway Done

Aunt Joyce asked me to complete this heirloom quilt top. The blocks were embroidered by Uncle Don’s Aunt Delia. Aunt Joyce sewed the blocks together with a bright pink sashing. She did quite a job engineering the design to fit the bed. The sashing is different widths to make the blocks fit the bed perfectly and the bottom corners are cut off so they won’t drag on the floor when the quilt is used on the bed. Aunt Joyce wanted polyester batting so that the quilt would be puffy and imperfections in the sashing will show less. I hope she allowed for the puff when she engineered the sashing. Width and length is lost to cover the height of the puff. Knowing Aunt Joyce, she probably figured on that “shrinkage”. This top was difficult to quilt because there was a lot of stopping and starting. After a couple hours of quilting I was exhausted. So it took longer to quilt than a lot of my recent quilts.

• Size: 103 1/2" x 94 3/4" before quilting. 100” x 90” after quilting. Queen bed size.
• Quilting: Quilted feathers in the wider sashing and leaves in the narrow sashing. Quilted around the embroidery and followed the printed blue dots in the blocks. Quilting was not continuous so there are lots of thread ends to bury, i.e. the quilt is very “hairy”. Used off-white 100% polyester thread (Omni from Superior Threads-named "Pearl White"). 15 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Plain white wide backing From a fabric.com sale. Aunt Joyce sent a backing, but I was afraid the weave would allow the polyester batting to “beard”, so I used my wide white backing that is a tighter weave.
• Batting: 100% polyester, Hobbs “Poly-Down”, Premium Polyester.
• Embroidery by Aunt Delia, sashing by Aunt Joyce
• Pinned into frame July 25, 2018. Quilting on long arm quilter July 25-August 8, 2018. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. Used a piece of plain, dark rose from a Quilt in a Day sale.  Binding was made on the bias, per Aunt Joyce’s request to Mother; also bias will look better with the angled off corners. Binding turn down done by hand.
• QC by Mother

Mounted in the Longarm

 

QC Front

QC Back

Working on the Binding

DVD’s of Doc Martin Series Got Me Through the Hand Sewing

Binding Manicure

Angled Corner

Quilt actually has 6 corners to bind due to angled design!

Back and Binding

Details of Sashing