from deep in the past

This quilt was started about 19 years ago when my cousin was pregnant.

I thought she was having a boy, but when she had a girl I thought the quilt was not feminine enough.

This was my first hand pieced quilt and I had started hand quilting it as well.

It was worked on spasmodically but mostly sat in an open fronted cupboard and as a result the border fabric and some in the blocks faded, some very badly as can be seen in the second photo.

I replaced the fabric ( I still had some of the original) and then machine quilted the remainder of the quilt.

I had to adapt some of the quilting designs so they were suitable to machine quilt.

I have a new machine, so as well as mastering free motion machine quilting, I am mastering a new machine as well.

So far we are working things out together.