The quilt is made from Kona cotton black & cream. Each block is a different 12″ block that I found free patterns to online, and yes, I machine pieced it. I didn’t quilt it (too fed up and inpatient at that point), instead it’s tied.
A kit probably would have been easier, I am sure, but floral patterns aren’t really the Little Bear’s thing. I had bought story book train themed 12″ quilt panels from a quilt shoppe to make the quilt with, but then decided against them. It sort of became a monster with a mind of it’s own that left me sewing chains of 4 1/4″ squares together to trim the edges, so that I wouldn’t have to make any more blocks.
I will be the first to admit that I can draft patterns, design corsets, figure hem lengths, and alter patterns all day long, but quilt top making if for those with far more will power than me. The moral of the story? I am not a quilter.
I’m sure the last 6 generations of quilt making women in my family are rolling in their graves and wailing in protest at my lack of quilt making love. At least I have their quilts to wrap myself up in (one was made by my great great grandmother, who Jessie James held hostage on her family’s farm when she was a girl in Northeastern Kansas!). Someday, remind me, & I will photograph the 3 most amazing quilts to share. One is a rainbow starburst that my late maternal grandmother made for me when I was graduating highschool, that will make the tradionalists and the modernists both sigh in delight 😉
