Two more baby quilts

Two more baby quilts from the 80's.   These are made with the flip and stitch method on the machine.  Each string block sewn and quilted at the same time, and then joined at the back with bias tape to make a grid on the second side.  

The top one is pastel solids, the bottom one has polka dots.

I taught this method in a couple of Canadian Quilt conferences in the early 90's.  

These were given away to friends as fast as I made them.

I hope that they were used.  

1988

Quilt numbers 115 and 116

the white quilt

I was excited about the 'quilt as you go' technique when I made this quilt in 1987.  I made two other pieces using the same technique during that year.  (The same year our youngest child was born)

For this piece, I used scraps left over from sewing and a few of my own embroidered blouses.  I wanted a light palette with very few accents of dark.  The technique of creating one-step blocks (construction and quilting at the same time) with sewing machine stitch and flip was in vogue. Georgia Bonesteel's book Lap Quilting (1982) was influential.

I thought that this quilt was lost, but just yesterday I found it.  It is in one of our museums here on Manitoulin, the curator had purchased it at a farm auction in the late 90's.  If you look carefully, you can glimpse it folded up on the end of this museum bed.

Number 103