I am posting this here as a reminder to myself of all the quilts I remember making over the years. I had forgotten several when counting up the number for my daughter. Some I actually have recorded with pictures.
1. The brown and yellow picnic blanket from remnants at the sewing factory. Joseph’s mother made a couple floor covering rugs from the long strings of fabric. This one we wore out to shreds.
2 – 3. Two baby sized quilts: one from the good parts of Tim and Randy’s pj’s which I sewed over a tired baby quilt and tied off. Tim took it to kindergarten and enjoyed sticking his hands in the pockets I left on the fabric. Another from remnants of flannel used to make pj’s for the boys. Tim’s wore out, the other had newer fabrics on top and bottom.
4. A quilt with foot square blocks in red, green and white for my grandparents 50th anniversary. I saw the neighbor’s anniversary quilt with all the names embroidered on it and thought it would be fun to make one. I mentioned it to my dad or mom and Dad kept asking me about it until I got it done. My aunts and mom and sister and other women did their family’s blocks. I asked MJ for help, but he ignored me until I was finished. Then he saw Janes and did up another whole set for me to stitch for each of us. The center had a lot of holly outlines and something about their wedding date and names of their parents.
I had it quilted loosely by a local woman and her mother that I met through Bible Study Fellowship. Her thumb was poked full of holes from having used the needle so much.
5. A 50th anniversary quilt for Joseph’s parents’ 50th wedding anniversary done in fall colors: autumn gold, olive green, rust, cream and light yellow. The center piece had the outline of a horn of plenty. I did most of the stitching on that because the other women did not do that sort of thing. Then Charlotte and her friends quilted it off. Charlotte thought I had not stitched some of the loose lines enough, but her friend told her it would last for her life-time. And it did. Joe took a good look at it as it sat in the frame and said, “She did a lot of work on that.”
6. A 40th wedding anniversary quilt for my parents designed as a Monopoly board in honor of all the games we played growing up. Each block around the outside represented a place we had lived or a significant event or events such as when we each graduated. The center had a wheel of colors for each family.
7. A quilt for Pat Hankins, small lap quilt with a nativity panel on one side and 6 pillow blocks on the other side.
8. A baby quilt for Heidi I made with Sharon with the story of Noah? on one side and decorations of hearts on the other side. Maroon colors.
9. A baby quilt Sharon and I made for Elijah with a road map on one side and a cloth book about bugs on the other side.
10. A baby quilt with Sharon for her friend that had a book on one side and a map on the other? All the baby quilts we machine stitched at the house.
11. A wedding quilt for Heidi that I called “Child’s Play” with a collection of cross stitch done in primary colors, reversible with navy and a rainbow of stitching bordered with harlequin. It began as a reversible using the quilt that eventually became Brit’s.
12. A wedding quilt for Brittany with scenes of various cities in the U.S. outlined as at night time. I did some cross stitch of cars, trains, planes and used others I had for this including one that was a cross stitch of New Orleans and a semi-truck. I had a road running around it that we did with black using white bias tape for the lines in the road. It was backed with a complimentary pattern of night time outlines of cities all hodge podged together.
13. A Precious Moments quilt for Patti and Randy done in bright Easter Colors of yellow, green, purple and pink. I used cross stitch blocks I had previously made with each of their names and a centerpiece of three bunnies on blocks for the initials of their three daughters. Plus, it had some bears from the same designer. All of their quilts were done at Greencroft.
14. A baby/toddler quilt for Elijah in the cowboy themes that Sharon used for his nursery. It turned out twice a big as it was supposed to be. I lined it with flannel so it was very useable. I stitched half a dozen one-nighter pix of cowboy items: hat, boots, cactus and a center piece of a little boy riding on a rocking horse. Afterwards I made a “Wanted baby Schulte for stealing our hearts” pillow to go with it.
15. A baby quilt that Jane and Sharon and I made with Suzy for Jane’s first grandchild, using the first of the cross stitch pieces I found at yard sales.
16. A bed sized quilt that Jane made for her bedroom while we visited in Arizona. She used a lot of hunting designs and themes and then tied it off. She bought the fabric at Walmart and stood there sorting through the fat quarters picking and switching what she wanted. We appliqued coordinating designs on some of the blocks.
17. A t-shirt quilt that I helped Sharon Joy make from favorite shirts belonging to her and Jacob. A new idea that we waded our way through, developing the idea as we went. It is cozy comforter that we knotted off.
18. A t-shirt quilt that we made for a friend of Sharon’s; small, a memorial for a deceased husband’s family.
19. A baby quilt for Lily using appliqued teddy bears and cross stitch teddy bear pictures. I did some hand quilting stitching the names of each child beneath the applique bears. I had it about done when I found a cross stitch I liked better for the top: one with four little bears, so I took out the block I had and re-did all of that.
20. Lindsay and I figured out what I call a Crayon Quilt with rows of blocks of colors on one side and a black and white crazy check on the other with inset pix of cats in black and white, including a Siamese cat and kittens pix in the center.
21. Sharon Lee and Sharon Joy took the 12 small cross stitch pieces I made to go with the Fairy Princess quilt for Caroline and made a full sized quilt in purple, yellow and pink gingham check. The center piece was a kit depicting flying fairies I found somewhere and thought it would look just right with the fabric Sharon Joy chose for the room.
22. My Arkansas of the past quilt done with 72 6-inch squares that I found at yard sales or thrift shops … except the 9 I made from kits, one-nighter patterns or found in books or magazines that fit the country Arkansas film. The design was “I Spy with a Twist” a pattern Sharon Joy brought me from Alaska. I kept changing and adding to the 72 pieces, including taking out blocks after they were sewn very securely in place.