Dr. Seuss Quilt

 

 

 

 

 

I've had this incredible Dr. Seuss fabric for over a year and am finally getting started on the quilt for Ella's (and now Adelaide's beds).  It will probably take me another year to actually finish these two quilts but at least I've got such good helpers!  Adelaide did a superb job of helping me pick out the fabrics, and while I was beginning the sewing process Ella came back to my little sewing/stroller garage room and announced that "one day when I grow, grow, grow I will sew by myself." 

Aunt Mamie Quilts

I feel incredibly blessed to have been given these quilts made by my Grandmommy's Aunt Mamie.  She passed away before I was born so I never met her (and don't know much about her), but I've always wondered what she would have thought to know her quilts would one day be the focal pieces of decoration in a great-great-niece's home halfway around the world!  Almost everyone who walks in our home comments on them and the girls both love looking at all the different fabrics.   

The top one (Snail's Trail) hangs on our wall and the second one is draped over a chair.  Grandmommy gave me the first one when I was in college and I would often spread it out on the floor when we had tea parties in our dorm room.  The second one was given to me after Grandmommy passed away.  I am actually not 100% positive that it was made by Aunt Mamie but the stitching is very similar and we have even found a few fabrics that are the same in both quilts.  I'm not sure when they were made but my guess is sometime in the 40's, 50's, or 60's.

Grandmommy's Christmas Quilt

 

 

My Grandmommy made this quilt and it was given to me after she passed away.  I absolutely love having this out during the holidays and even though L likes for all of the Christmas decorations to be put away asap after Christmas, he makes an exception for this one.  We keep it out until January 14th, which was her birthday.