A year and a half ago my sister and I went to Shipshewana, Indiana. As we were shopping around we stopped into Yoders Department Store. They have a wonderful fabric department - lots of great cotton quilting material. Hanging on the the wall was a beautiful gray, red and black quilt called Stars & Shadows. It was featured on the cover of Quilt Sampler spring/summer 2016 magazine. My sister loved the quilt. The colors tie in perfect with her modern farmhouse decor.
Now my sister doesn't sew, but she knew she could talk me into making this quilt for her. I agreed with one condition - she had to help in the process. So the process began. We had to make a California-King quilt to go on her bed.
I figured she could help by placing squares together for me to sew. She could cut, trim and iron the pieces. With my sister living three hours away our sewing time was limited and the process dragged out, but when we got together we had a great production line going. In fact, as my sister and I were busy with our assigned jobs my mom even jumped in and helped sort squares and trim threads. From the printed pattern we made extra blocks and increased the border to accommodate a California-King bed making the final size 96" by 103".
During one of our get togethers a nine year old boy named Mason wanted to help. I sat him at the sewing machine and showed him what to do. He caught on immediately and did a great job. When his father came to pick him up he didn't want to leave. He wanted to continue sewing. I enjoy teaching younger kids to sew and do crafts.
Here's Mason busy at the sewing machine.
This past weekend the quilt is completely done. I will be delivering it to my sister next weekend. With plenty of leftover fabric that we will make a couple pillow shams to coordinated with this quilt. Pictures to come in the future. Here is our Stars & Shadows quilt.
With the pillow shams finished this project is done. My sister said that she never makes her bed, but now she will make her bed every day. She likes it! And she got an idea on the amount of work that goes into making a quilt. We had fun.
Mother's Day was this past weekend and I'm reminded that my mother jumped in to help make this quilt. Unfortunately, she never got to see the finished quilt - she passed away this January. Us girls made a great sewing unit and had lots of chatter, laughs and food during the process. This finished quilt has a special beautiful memory. Truly a family affair.
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