A quilt top from 1945...
Just finished this quilt for a client. She made this top about 50 years ago and is just now getting it quilted. Made me feel better about the quilt tops I have only had around for 10 years or so... (She wanted a pantograph. It must be the age. I think that when you grow up in the Depression, anything that looks like it came off an assembly-line must look fancy and store-bought and expensive. I did a good job on it, but I would have enjoyed free-handing it. But it does get the job done faster, so I won't complain too loudly. I really think that it is a shame to machine quilt a hand-pieced quilt. Blasphemous, I know. But while I haven't the time or the inclination to hand-quilt, myself, it doesn't mean I don't appreciate the real stuff.) This client's son had a very kind comment about my work. When my husband called him to verify her address, he said he was sorry to hear that I was quitting the quilting business. He said he knew several quilters but that I was the only one he'd trust with the old quilts. Now I thought that was nice. Not so nice I'm tempted to reconsider, but it does make a difference doing quilts for folks that are appreciative. I just really want to do quilts that I want to do- not just quilts that I have to do and sometimes it seems like I get all used up on the "have-to" quilts and I don't have much to offer to the "want-to" quilts. Does that make sense? Sometimes you just have to be a brat and do what you want to do!