Welcome back to my Family Quilt series! It’s been a while! Today’s quilt (and the next two) and brought to you courtesy of my father. Yep, it’s a whole heapin’ family full of quilters! Actually, these three are the only three quilts my father made. He likes to learn how to do new things and then he moves on to something else. In fact, I think he would have only made two but my mother insisted that he make a third so that his three children wouldn’t have to fight over them some day. I’m pretty sure this was the third one (it’s a much simpler pattern than the other two).
I’m going to apologize right off here because I did not get very good shots of these quilts — I have nothing that shows the entire pattern on this one, for example. I think I might have been getting tired at this point of getting out all these heavy quilts! This one has pink, blue, and brown four-patches set off with plain muslin sashing. Since I was there, I can attest to the fact that all of these quilts were pieced by hand and quilted by hand. In fact, he even built himself a large quilting frame (since he’s a woodworker).
The back is solid muslin — yeah, Dad, for signing it! The backing is wrapped around to the front to create the binding, just like it is for some of the old quilts from my Great Grandmother. I’m really wishing I had bothered to measure these quilts while we had them out, but I’m pretty sure this one is at least twin bed size. Maybe double bed size.
The quilting for this one is an all-over grid that makes little X’s in all the squares. Cute!
In case anyone is interested in all the relatedness here, my father is the grandson of my Great Grandma Roloff, who did most of the quilts I have been showing you. He is not related to my Grandma Weber who did the wedding quilts and the cross-stitch quilts (that’s my mom’s mom!).
There will be two more posts on my dad’s quilts, and then back to some more of those vintage classics!
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Loving all your old quilts. You are very lucky. We don’t have any in our family so i think i will have to make some for the future kiddies!
Wow, this is really amazing! It’s wonderful how many of these quilts are still with you. I love how the quilting grid turned into little Xs in each square. Thanks for sharing.
Thats just amazing your Dad gave patchwork a go! My Dad! pfffttt!!! He’s too busy pottering in his shed! The mere thought of him behind a sewing machine is impossible, so I think its so cool your Dad had a go!