Margo wrote:
That is really amazing!! Fabric bleeding is really interesting to me. (I'm a geek, I know!) It's not just which fabrics will bleed, but also which fabrics will pick up the excess dyes. (Although this is the first time I've seen someone's hand pick up the excess dyes!!) And. of course, water chemistry makes a difference, too. A friend of mine has noticed that in the past year or so she has started having a lot of trouble with bleeding fabrics that she didn't have in the past. She originally attributed it to changes in fabric manufacturing until I pointed out that the others in our little quilting group haven't had the same problems. So now we're thinking that it probably has to do with the chemicals that are getting into her water from the nearby fracking. Scary!! I'm pushing her to get her water checked...

What an honor to quilt these so they can finally be loved and used (or displayed) by the family. Every quilt tells a story and you have helped them to tell it!

rehak wrote:

Thanks for the kudos, ladies.

Nancy, I was really surprised that there was no bleeding onto the other fabrics when I washed and blocked those two quilts! I used 3 color catchers in the washer and there wasn't even much color change on them!

Margo - Thanks for sharing! What wonderful quilts and quilting!! I think you win the award for fabric bleeding....

Nancy

My goodness what a find! Love how you are preparing them for their second life in a new century. You seem to know intuitively what is right for each quilt. How lucky they are to have been entrusted to your care!

Family "TREASURES". says it all. Thank you for sharing the wonderful pictures so we all can enjoy seeing the work of years past. I agree that you are definitely the right one to have been entrusted to finish these beautiful pieces.
Lori

Margo, Not only is it marvelously wonderful to see these charming family treasures, but it is also good to know what you have been up to. Thanks so much for sharing these lovely heirlooms. What a very special job to be entrusted to you. You must have been pleased to have been asked.

Margo, I heartily agree with Renata. These quilts couldn't have found a better person to treat them gently, sympathetically and finish them for the family.

Margo thanks for the photos. It was very interesting to see what was being made early on. I love your very kind words "interesting fabrics and creative piecing". In those bygone days it shows that people had to make do with what they could find as there was no quilt shops around. It also shows that in every era there were UFO's, this generation didn't invent them
Please continue to tell us their story.

Thank you for sharing this, Margo. What a variety of colors and fabrics. You have done a tremendous job in finishing them

Margo, what a treasure! I love to see these old tops get a new chance to be out in the world, even if some are too fragile to be used as a quilt. The color choices are folk art for sure. This reminds me of Gyleen Fitzgerald's book about bringing old quilt tops to life. I'm sure the makers of these tops are happy up in Heaven knowing that someone got around to completing them.

Kathy

These are all so great!
Wonder what stories they could tell.

thanks for the photos, Margo.

That brings us to the last two quilt tops. I have these two log cabin quilts left to do.

This large scale log cabin will get a red Stonehenge backing fabric, and probably just an overall quilting design.
There is one block that is turned the wrong way, but I'm not going to change it.



And this is my favorite of the group. I call it the "Cream of the Crop"!!
Brenda asked that I add borders to make it a little larger, and that will give me a place to add some nice feather quilting.

{!-- ia0 -->Cream of the Crop 79x66.JPG{!-- ia0 -->

After all of the minuscule piecing that was done on the quilts with larger blocks, I think it is so funny that there are places in this quilt where there should be 2 "logs", but she had a piece of fabric large enough that she wasn't about to cut it, and used just the one large piece! And there is also lots of pieced logs too.
Absolutely charming!

I'll add photos of these when I get them done.

Margo, these quilts are amazing! What a memory of times past and a memento for future generations. You certainly have the skill and finesse in deciding what needs to go onto these quilts. They are matched up with just the right person to do this delicate work.