Margie's Quilt
When we all get together as family, eating is our primary pastime. If we’re not eating a meal, Margie and I are preparing the next one (or cleaning up, which also takes time).
The quilt above is entirely created by Jim’s mom Margie. It hangs in our dining room and she adds buttons to it every time she visits. We arranged the squares (she’s the artist but she made me do this time after time so I acquiesced) into a seasonal quilt. So, from upper left, clockwise, it’s winter, summer, fall, spring. We love having this family art in our home.
Margie put together this Civil War quilt below, originally by Jim’s great, great, great (don’t know how many greats) grandmother. It is painstakingly detailed and while Margie advocated its use as a tablecloth I knew it needed a place of honor. Now when the quilter got a bit forgetful in her later years she no longer used comforting pastels. See the out-of-place hexagons? One on the upper left and one on the right. That’s Jim and me being two peas out-of-the-pod and finally finding each other! At least that’s what we like to think.
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Cooking with Dee 
Beautiful quilts!
Thanks PDX… You keep up your knitting!
Dee, I love your explanation of the 2 wild flowers in this quilt. My great grandmother never finished this one but had added enough other, out of sync, ‘flowers’ to almost complete the top. She suffered from what would likely today be called Alzheimers and the workmanship and the piecing fell far short of her typical work. I took it down to the center, repairing or replacing what I could. Then I quilted and bound it for display. I suppose the fabrics were from the era of WWII or earlier, they are as loosely woven as flour sacks were. This quilt is likely 80-90 years old. I do have another one that is about 130 years old, I could send a picture and story. I haven’t really ever done much work like this but in time the pieces add up.