This little quilt was sewn for my daughter, Emily, when she left for college. At the time, she really liked pink and black. It’s made primarily with feedsack scraps (leftovers from the Kansas Dugout Quilt) and a few vintage dress scraps. I blanket stitched the scraps by hand onto 4″ pieces of muslin using black cotton floss. Four of the little blocks were then combined to make 20 larger blocks. I selected a heavy cotton waffle fabric for the sashing and borders to match the thickness of the blocks. The feedsack triangle border was machine stitched and then embroidered with the same blanket stitch. The quilt has a thin cotton batting and was tied with embroidery floss. It’s heavy-ish and kind of funky.
Feedsack Crazy Quilt
Martha Dellasega Gray, 2003
hand embroidered, tied with floss
50″ x 60″
Martha,
I love the combination of vintage and modern. I’ll bet she loves it, too!
Wow, that is really nice! I can’t believe you stitched all of those small pieces together. I love the way quilts look when they’re tied, I think it’s so neat!
Thanks, I will keep drinking my soup and tea, I hope my throat clears up soon! I am such a weeny blob when I’m sick, haha. B has been such a good boy, checking up on me. We went to practice today, he knows now what he is supposed to do, and Rev. Vallis will be sitting beside him. I think he will be great!
How are you doing? xoxo
Hi Martha,
This is a totally awesome quilt with at least a million stitches of love in it for your daughter!
You do beautiful work.
Cindy in Seattle