Update

My friend Moira had an old quilt that her mother made from the extra material used to make her childhood dresses. Sadly it was falling apart, and I was recruited to help her save at least some of the fabric of her old quilt.

Above you see the back of the quilt (which used to be quite colorful). Her mother sewed little flowers at intervals to bind the quilt and we ended up cutting this off the back side (instead of trying to rip them out), which is why there are so many holes in the fabric.

Most of the harvestable fabric ended up being a two inch strip that was under a wide binding on the old quilt. We are going to use some of the heavily faded fabric as well just to have the memory of the old quilt. Our plan is to double the old fabric with muslin when we put them into the quilt.

Most of the quilt is finding its resting place in the trash (because neither Moira or I have compost), but Moira is saving some of it to make reusable coffee filters.


On another note, I've begun a baby quilt for Margot's baby, soon to be joining us. I'm doing 3X4 of these milky way squares set straight, but I'm altering the blocks so that the pattern flows from one square to the next. Thus only the distinction between blocks will be the color change.