How many quilters among us?

[Aggie_Ama]

Wow ladies, gorgeous! I cannot sew but I am slowly putting away pieces of fabric anyway. In my family quilts were not necessarily works of art but for warmth and necessity. My Mammaw is very carfeul to not waste anything, she was raised on a ranch through the depression and even lived in a tent the first year of her marriage, quilting was not for art in her world. Although with crocheting and knitting she is an artist.

I have a lovely quilt my Mammaw (mom's mom) found at her mother's after she has passed. The quilt is a patch work of odd fabric cut to look kind of like a double sided axe head (that is what I see anyway). My mammaw dug out her own scrap fabric and finished the quilt around the summer of 1990, a year after her mother had passed. She gave it to me because the backing was pink and I was the only grand daughter. Some of the scraps there is only one of, some there are many blocks of. I just love the personality of Mammaw and my Great Grandma Ellen coming through in the mismatched blocks. One day I will learn to sew and make a quilt of necessity and scraps.