2019 Quilting project [View all]
Here is my family history quilt top. I have it finished and ready to go to the quilt shop to be quilted. I am going to have the border around the blocks machine quilted and I am going to hand quilt around each image. I have made 2 of these tops ready to be quilted, have one more almost ready to sew together.
I scanned in the images and made the blocks in Photoshop. I had 5 sets printed using "my Print Designs". I used premium cotton which ran $17.50 per yard and it took 3 yard yards to print the 63 blocks I had 6 sets printed, 3 for me and three to give to my sisters,
There is a Democratic connection in the quilt. My great-grandfather was a Scottish immigrant who settled in Pike county, Illinois. He was opposed to the Civil War and was as a "copperhead". He served in the Union army and came back to Pike
county after the war. Feelings ran high in Pike county -Republican against Democrats. He was trained as a doctor and finally left Illinois and moved to Travis County, Texas. He was a loyal Democrat and was involved in Texas politics until his death. One of the images in the quilt is of him and his wife before they left Pike county.
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