Getting Closer to a Whole Quilt

   

       Sometime in the late 60's or early 70's, after the 31 yellow blocks were put away and forgotten (out of sight, out of mind) I decided that I wanted to try again.  I was determined to make a quilt from start to finish. This one was going to be for me and the colors would go nicely with the color scheme of my bedroom.
      I don't know where the pattern came from.  It sure wasn't out of a beginner's quilt magazine.  I do know that acrylic templates and rotary cutters were not part of the project.  And I sure didn't do myself any favors about achieving my goal of completing a quilt.  Not only were there 16 pieces to each block, but there were also set-in seams AND curved seams.  If history was any indication, my interest would surely fade long before the last stitch was completed.  And it did.
      It is now 2013 and I recently pulled the quilt from my Grandmother's old hope chest that sits in my guest bedroom.  It was right there tucked in the chest along with 31 yellow star blocks.  The top is completed (all by hand) and it has been basted to the backing.  I even started the hand quilting.  It's about a third of the way through. This project is the closest to being a completed quilt I had come so far.
      I may not remember starting this project, but when I look at the quilt it brings back a vision.  I'm sitting on the front porch of the Limekiln Lake summer house with this big maroon quilt on my lap quilting away and chatting with my mother-in-law.  I guess that's where I did most of the work on the quilt.  Unfortunately, I no longer have a room in my house with that color scheme.  But  when, not if, I get this one done it would look very nice on my bed at the lake house where it has already spent so many summers.