http://www.amyalamode.com/blog/2009/01/12/family-quilts-yellow-cross-stitch/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:50:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.amyalamode.com/blog/2009/01/12/family-quilts-yellow-cross-stitch/#comment-216 Rebekah Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:00:27 +0000 http://amyalamode.wordpress.com/?p=570#comment-216 Her hand work is so amazing! I love the yellow and white colors. Her hand work is so amazing! I love the yellow and white colors.

]]> http://www.amyalamode.com/blog/2009/01/12/family-quilts-yellow-cross-stitch/#comment-215 Linda H Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:54:02 +0000 http://amyalamode.wordpress.com/?p=570#comment-215 Hi! I found your blog just yesterday and have been poring over your archives, following your family quilt series. Thank you so very much for sharing this rich quilting heritage. I am enjoying every picture and every word. Have you thought about a book? Seriously, this would make a wonderful book. And now with today's post about your Grandmother Weber's quilts...I just had to respond. My father's mother was born Mary Ellen Weber in Kansas toward the end of the 1800's. I don't know that any of my family did any quilting. hmmm, I have one aunt left. I'll have to ask her about that. Anyway, the yellow quilt is so sweet. Her method of finishing the edges is interesting. If I understand you correctly, the quilt was quilted and then the edges were turned in? Not sewn together envelope style and then quilted. I ask because when I first began quilting in the 60's, I sewed the top and backing with the battting wrong sides together, leaving a "hole" for turning the whole big thing right side out, pressed the edges carefully and then hand quilted it. I didn't know any better because I didn't have anyone around me to show me how to do it properly. No big wide wonderful instructive web then. Looking forward to more of your heritage quilts. Linda H northern CA Hi! I found your blog just yesterday and have been poring over your archives, following your family quilt series. Thank you so very much for sharing this rich quilting heritage. I am enjoying every picture and every word. Have you thought about a book? Seriously, this would make a wonderful book.
And now with today’s post about your Grandmother Weber’s quilts…I just had to respond. My father’s mother was born Mary Ellen Weber in Kansas toward the end of the 1800′s. I don’t know that any of my family did any quilting. hmmm, I have one aunt left. I’ll have to ask her about that. Anyway, the yellow quilt is so sweet. Her method of finishing the edges is interesting. If I understand you correctly, the quilt was quilted and then the edges were turned in? Not sewn together envelope style and then quilted. I ask because when I first began quilting in the 60′s, I sewed the top and backing with the battting wrong sides together, leaving a “hole” for turning the whole big thing right side out, pressed the edges carefully and then hand quilted it. I didn’t know any better because I didn’t have anyone around me to show me how to do it properly. No big wide wonderful instructive web then.
Looking forward to more of your heritage quilts.
Linda H
northern CA

]]> http://www.amyalamode.com/blog/2009/01/12/family-quilts-yellow-cross-stitch/#comment-214 Barbara E Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:52:27 +0000 http://amyalamode.wordpress.com/?p=570#comment-214 Gorgeous and precious!! Lucky you to have this from your grandmother even if it has a bit of wear. Gorgeous and precious!! Lucky you to have this from your grandmother even if it has a bit of wear.

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