{"id":5180,"date":"2010-01-10T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:05:32","slug":"memories-in-lace-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/10\/memories-in-lace-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories in Lace Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present and the promise of the future.~<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Author Unknown\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

This is certainly true of my daughter Rebecca, though she has\u00c2\u00a0alrealdy fulfilled all the future promises\u00c2\u00a0 for which I had hoped—and more.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This quilt holds happy memories of the past, some mine, some hers, some which she cannot possibly recall.\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Made in the traditional snowball pattern, this quilt is composed of alternate blocks filled with applique’d hearts.\u00c2\u00a0 Lace scraps from skirt fancybands and\u00c2\u00a0remnants of Rebeca’s little dresses make up the bulk of the hearts.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Each heart is\u00c2\u00a0attached with a machine sewn feather stitch.<\/p>\n

As I look at each piece of lace or handloom or tattting\u00c2\u00a0or Swiss embroidery, I recall with perfect clarity the dress or nightgown,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0collar or sleeve on which it was used.\u00c2\u00a0 Like most of you, I suspect, I deliberated long and hard over these trim choices.\u00c2\u00a0 Did I have enough on hand?\u00c2\u00a0 Would this ruffle hold up to the rough and tumble after church Easter Egg Hunt?\u00c2\u00a0Perhaps it is that lenthy deliberation that makes these associations so clear.<\/p>\n

The white background of the blocks recalls memories from another era, before Rebecca’s time.\u00c2\u00a0 The plain white damask on which the hearts are applique’d, \u00c2\u00a0is from a set of her maternal grandmother’s dinner napkins.\u00c2\u00a0 The leaf patterned damask is from a set of napkins that belonged to her paternal grandmother who died several years before Rebecca’s birth.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Solid squares that set off the snowballs are\u00c2\u00a0scraps of Swiss batiste from Rebecca’s heirloom dresses.\u00c2\u00a0 I can finger a\u00c2\u00a0peach colored\u00c2\u00a0square and step back in time to the wee hours before Easter morning, finishing up this dress.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember thinking that as soon as I had the ribbon run through the beading, all I had to do was hide 4\u00c2\u00a0dozen Easter eggs and then I could sleep for 3 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s when\u00c2\u00a0the children would\u00c2\u00a0rush downstairs to begin their\u00c2\u00a0frenzied egg hunt.\u00c2\u00a0 Later, I would try to not to nod off during Easter dinner.<\/p>\n

Mother of pearl buttons, no two alike, were taken from my grandmother’s button box.\u00c2\u00a0 One rests in the center of each colored square and at the corners of the quilt.<\/p>\n

These buttons and the button box are a special treasure to me.\u00c2\u00a0 The only other\u00c2\u00a0needlework remembrance I have from her is a cuss-ugly bow tie quilt top that appears to have been made from old men’s pajamas.\u00c2\u00a0 During the Great Depression,\u00c2\u00a0many women sewed and quilted out of necessity, with what was readily available, whether or not they enjoyed it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I don’t think my dear grandmother was one who enjoyed it.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The strippy border is like a scrapbook of my sewing life.\u00c2\u00a0 Pieces I’ve purchased for their sheer beauty or in a long term hope\u00c2\u00a0for grandchildren, pieces given to me by like-minded, generous friends, pieces rescued from antique textiles…each has a story and a memory for me.<\/p>\n

The lace ruffle is pure extravagance, creation of a frame worthy of some of my most special memories–memories of the past, memories of my daughter’s childhood, and memories of\u00c2\u00a0my prayers\u00c2\u00a0for the future\u00c2\u00a0which have now been answered.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll start on another\u00c2\u00a0memory quilt\u00c2\u00a0for\u00c2\u00a0the grandmother stage of my life.\u00c2\u00a0 I have put away scraps from my granddaughter’s dresses and the boys’ heirloom clothes and\u00c2\u00a0someday soon\u00c2\u00a0might have\u00c2\u00a0lace scraps and trims from another precious grandchild.\u00c2\u00a0 Already I have a lot of new memories .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present and the promise of the future.~\u00c2\u00a0Author Unknown This is certainly true of my daughter Rebecca, though she has\u00c2\u00a0alrealdy fulfilled all the future promises\u00c2\u00a0 for which … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41,28,40,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12954,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/12954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}