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I rescued my granny’s quilt blocks and made them into a new quilt.

Yay!  I finally finished it.

A while back my grandpa had given me a bunch of quilt blocks that my granny (my great grandma) had made some time ago before she died in 2002. 

Granny was kind of the queen of WIP (work in progress), so I’m still collecting some random crafty things she’d started and going through to see what I can do to finish them or turn them into something else.

Mom and I went antiquing in March and found another set of blocks that went well with the ones my Granny had made since there weren’t enough to make an entire quilt.

Even with these, it’s a pretty small lap quilt, but it’s really pretty anyway.  I ended up tea staining all the blocks since some were more aged-looking than others — they’re all about the same now.

As you can tell by the crappy quilting, I did it myself on my machine.

I have a ton of quilt tops waiting to be turned into quilt sandwiches, but I need to send those off to somebody professional to do them. I probably should have done the same with this one, but I was impatient and wanted it to be finished — not to mention, I wanted to be the one to do it since my Granny had hand-pieced the blocks.

I have a couple more blocks she’s done, but I’m trying to figure out what I want to do with them still. This is a really neat quilt, and I’m really glad I have it.

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Hello, friend! I'm Calee! (I also answer to chimes.) I'm a DIY academic, designer, multimedia artist, and aspiring bass player. I geek music and spend most of my spare time making things and exploring outdoors.

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  • Kelly L
    August 20, 2010

    Aww, I’m happy you finished this. I hope you’re not going to sell it…

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  • Kelly L
    August 20, 2010

    PS – I really enjoy the term “quilt sandwiches.” I don’t know why.

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  • Adria Swinconos
    August 20, 2010

    i love this one calee! 🙂 so happy you were able to finish it!

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  • Steph A
    August 23, 2010

    I know you blogged about it before but i don’t wanna go digging – which blocks did your granny do and which ones did you buy?

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      Steph A
      March 17, 2019

      I’m going through and editing old content (for accessibility) and realized I never answered this! I actually don’t remember but if I venture a guess, Granny pieced the ones that sort of look like plane propellers.

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