I'll be incommunicado for a few days.

My Mom and I are going to see about my Dads 95 year old father in La Junta, Colorado by way of Taos, New Mexico. We go to Taos first because by the time we leave Colorado we're pretty emotionally drained and ready to get home. I wanted to show pictures of quilts, but I really haven't been working on much lately except my pies and tarts quilt, so I thought I'd show you some of my inherited quilts. There isn't much if any value in any of the quilts that I inherited, but I treasure them still.
This quilt was made by my Grandma Alyne, my Dads mother, and it's all double knit fabrics sewn together by hand with the featherstitch, I think. It isn't finished, but I have the extra fabrics to finish it. My Grandma was already pretty well advanced with Alzhiemer's when she gave this to me, but she made me promise to finish it and I will someday.

 

The quilt reminds me of her because most of the fabrics in it are left overs from her clothes.

This quilt top or summer quilt, because it has binding on it, was commissioned by my Great, great Aunt. She wanted it to go on her bed in the summer. The bad thing is that she wanted the top flat and not scalloped so she cut the top off...lol...she was a mess. She was a missionary in China in the late 1920's or early 30's I think. I have her diary from that time and she had to escape China for fear of being killed along with the other missionaries she was with. Interesting life Aunt Bea had and I'm tickled to have this memento of hers.

 

I'll be stopping at a couple of quilts shops along the way I think. Have a great week blogfriends and we'll chat when I get home.