Not long ago I mentioned in one of my posts how I come from a family of quilters. I personally have not yet learned how to quilt, but I would really like to. I've even been collecting fabrics that I like in hopes of someday making my very own quilt.
I have been a part of making a quilt top however, even though I wasn't in on the quilting process. When I was still in elementary school~maybe 9 or 10~my grandma basted up some quilt blocks for me to embroider. I think I must've expressed some interest and that inspired her. 
That was her quilting style. She has made hundreds of quilts in her lifetime, some pieced and patchwork, but most of them have beautifully embroidered blocks. She made the most perfect stitches. And with only a few exceptions, her quilts were always made with whatever scraps she had~or was given by her daughters since most of them sewed. That makes her quilts even more special because on most any of her quilts I can find blocks made from scraps from clothes that my mom made for me as a child.
Well, I embroidered a couple of blocks (and you can definitely tell which ones those are!) and then lost interest. So finally one day...in 2001...I decided it was time to finish that quilt. I jumped in with fervor and whipped out the rest of those quilt blocks in record time~considering it took me something like 20 years to actually finish it!!
one of the first two blocks I did as a kid
my funny butterfly antennas
Now here is the coolest part: My mom decided to host a quilting at her house with all of her sisters and my grandma to quilt it for me. All seven of them were there for a whole day and then my mom, grandma and a couple of aunts finished it in a few more days. It is so special to me that they all put in stitches on it for me. It's done entirely by hand.
an old fashioned quilting bee
me with my mom and sister
a beautifully finished quilt!
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