Quilts with Love

Everyone has their way of relieving stress. Lately my stress relief has been working on quilts. The past few weeks I have been lucky enough to work on 2 quilts that are very special. Here is a the first finished quilt. I made it for my mom. :)

The first picture is the back. Each strip of fabric from a different dress my mom made me when I was growing up. She is a great sewer and always made me cute clothes. The middle row are quilt squares my mom had made but nevee put into a quilt. There is also a strip of lace from mom mom First Communion dress.

The second picture is the front of the quilt. The front of the quilt was the first time I have made a quilt with different shaped squares and I had so much fun piecing it all together. It's a mixture of shirts from race for the cures that my mom and I participated in (she is over 10 years cancer free now!!), fabric from my mom that she used to make different things for me growing up, and fabric my grandma (mom's mom) gave me. My grandma had also given me a few quilt squares she made a long time ago. I included those in the quilt as well. There are also some filler fabric that I threw in. It's so fun to make a quilt that has pieces of me, my mom and my grandma all together. I'm excited to give it to my mom this weekend. This is also the quilt Beth helped me figure out how to put together. I was trying to figure out the best way to attach them and still look nice.

While in the middle of making this quilt for my mom, my mother in law was giving us some things that belonged to my husband's grandparents before they moved into the nursing home. Among those things was a bunch of quilt squares. Marilyn, my hubby's grandma, had cut them and pinned them in rows, and I am assuming the order she intended on sewing them. She has Alzheimers so I can't really ask her intentions with it. But I truly enjoyed sewing the squares and finishing the quilt. It almost felt like we were making it together. Here is the finished project...

I'm planning on giving it to my mother in law and father in law tomorrow. I hope they enjoy it. Saw this little quote I found on pinterest. I put it on a card and inside the card I explained how much fun I had making it.