Starting Mom’s First Quilt

Because my mom periodically undergoes chemo treatments and the like, she has times where she’s stuck in bed. In hopes of breaking up her monotony, I whipped up a little green quilt top for her to quilt. She’d never quilted before, but my passion for it had interested her. We’d let it go for a couple years, but when I was visiting her this last weekend she asked about working on it.

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So we got out the bag of supplies–a small frame, a marking pencil, a couple stencils, and the needle & thread.

After looking at the stencils for a while, she decided that she’d prefer doing cookie-cutter hearts. So we got out her heart-shaped cookie cutter and laid it (sharp side up, so we didn’t hurt the fabric) on the quilt.

As it turned out, the cutter fit perfectly in the corner of the pattern. She traced along the inside and rotated the cutter back and forth as the dark cloth zig-zagged. She only marked one line of color, hopefully it won’t wear off before she’s quilted them.

While I was there, she quilted the first heart. (It was weird, since I didn’t have any sewing with me and kept itching to quilt something myself.) It was the first time she’d quilted something by doing more than tying at the corners.

Her stitches were a little uneven, but the heart was definitely a heart and it looked quilt good for a beginner. I’m looking forward to see how the quilt turns out!