This quilt is a combination of work by my Mum [Pene] and my Grandma [Madeline McLaughlan, late of Boolboonda].
When Grandma was unwell and in the Monto nursing home she was still able to do the embroidery she had been taught and did as a girl. Her eyesight was still great [thanks to Mum insisting she have cataract surgery], her hands steady and her mind sharp. She fell in love with the primitive-style drawings that were easily done with lines of slip stitch and then embellished with the odd flower worked in other stitches.
Mum drew the designs onto calico for Grandma to work. After they were stitched Mum collected them together and sewed them into the quilt you see above. [Click on the picture to see it bigger]. This will be given to one of my uncles or aunts.
The embroidery kept Grandma active and engaged when she was in the nursing home and she managed to do enough calico patches that Mum will be able to make 3 quilts from them. The others will be different colours. Grandma did all these blocks in similar tones of embroidery thread but the others included more colour.
I really look forward to seeing the rest finished too.
Congratulations Mum - it looks great!
by Eldest Daughter
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ladys i love all the quilts on your site well done to all
you are all very talented cant wait to come see you all in march .
your mum pene has inspired me to jion embriodery and quilting i am doing one with teddy bear grandmas at presant hope to get it sewn up very soon
i loved her quilts all i have seen of them there wonderful
take care all
denny
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