Now the quilt is really finished.

I’ve been sleeping under the Checkered Dresden quilt for more than a month now. Yes, it is a wonderful quilt. The only thing missing was a label. We are told to label everything, so in the future people will know who made the quilt.I have mentioned before that I don’t feel the need to name every quilt. I’m ok with my name and the year it was made.  I love hand embroidery and probably don’t do enough of it. So for many of my quilt labels, I pull out the embroidery. This is a handkerchief and designs from Sublime Stitching, their patterns are fun, although I think I’m going to branch out and use others as well. Sure I ‘could’ design my own, but so many good designers out there, why not use their products?Why the squirrel? No reason other than I have the pattern, I like the squirrel. It has nothing to do with the quilt top.If I have a squirrel, might as well add an acorn.Squirrel finished.Here is the label. Either the quilt will stay in the family and they will know who I am, or it won’t. Then the only thing the person will know is my name, the year this was made and that I must have liked squirrels.

I recently read a blog post of someone who found a very interesting 1970’s quilt in a vintage store. Later he found the name of the maker and even a citation in a book about that specific quilt. He got in touch with her, she is still quilting and often wondered what happened to that quilt. Clearly, she sent many quilts out into the world. So it was nice that they reconnected.Label attached.  Most of my embroidery ends up on the back of quilts where it really doesn’t get seen. I should consider doing some more visible embroidery, but right now, I’m just happy embroidering and sending it out into the world on my quilts.