Mom's appliqué quilt

It all started a long long time ago, as you will see from the fabric selection, when someone, who would teach classes in quilting, had started an appliqué block.  She would use the block to demonstrate the different techniques.  Then the block got put aside.  Another class came around and she would start another block, and so forth.  

By the time this person stopped doing classes and started cleaning up and decluttering her space, this bundle of blocks had twelve background squares, four blocks were complete, one was in progress and another few had the pieces cut out, but nothing done, not even any indication of what the pattern for that block was going to be.  

This person had a quilter's form of a garage sale at a meeting of friends.  At this meeting, my mom decided that she would purchase this bundle of fabric pieces and see what she could do with it.  This is where I came in.  My mom knew that I was working on an appliqué quilt and showed me all the pieces that she had.  From my experience, I was able to deduce the intended design of a couple of blocks, and figured the remaining odd pieces were likely extras, possible from ideas that did not materialize.

My mom set herself to finishing the four blocks that we had figured out, and during this time, each time we would go fabric shopping, we'd keep an eye out for coordinating fabric, so that she could finish the last four blocks that were not yet determined.  The remaining four blocks were designs my mom found through various sources.

I've only recently started quilting it.  I stabilized the quilt with quilting in the ditch from top to bottom.  This way if I have to unload the quilt and reload it, it is all in one piece.  It was a good idea that I did this as it has already been on and off the machine a couple of times.  Things happen and customer quilts take precedence.  All the cornerstones are done and I was just getting started with the sashing, the last time I had to unload the quilt.

There has been and still going to be a lot of ruler work on this quilt.  I'm going to have to find some time where I have a large block of time with no quilting commitments, to try and advance on this quilt.  When it comes to this amount of quilting, I really have to be in the right frame of mind.  

The last time this quilt was on the frame was Sept 9th/2025.  There is still a lot to do, but still wanted to share this with you now.  I'll show you the progress on it when I get going again on it.  I'll also show you some of the blocks in future posts.

Take cares everyone.