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| Effie's Butterfly Garden |
I've
done a series on my husband's grandmother, Granny Rose, her quilts,
and my reproductions of those designs. Until now, I only had one of
my own grandmother's quilts, a wedding gift. Recently a cousin sent
me some old family photos, including a few pics of Granny Hill's
quilts.
Effie's
Butterfly Garden is my version of one of them. I made my
block simpler so that I could use Accuquilt dies and sew it up more
quickly. Her quilt and my block are pictured below. I may do
another take on the design later using her kite piece.
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| Effie Hill quilt |
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| Kaye's version |
Vintage
style 1930's and 1940's small floral prints, like the housedresses
she made and wore, are featured with a natural muslin contrast in
each block. Backing and binding are a larger floral print. I
quilted with beige thread using a walking foot in serpentine lines
that intersect to make simple flower petals.
I
remember Effie Hill as a strong, independent woman who raised six
kids during the depression. She lived and worked hard all her life on a farm in
rural middle Tennessee. She grew a garden, cooked and
canned, and somehow found time to sew and quilt. I surely must have
inherited some of her sewing DNA.
Accuquilt
dies used: 55010 5” square, 55735 2 ¼” x 4 ½” chisel, and
55147 2 ¼” half square triangle. I cut the 2 ¼” square from a
strip, using the end of the chisel die.
I am thankful
for the strength
that lives in my veins.
~K. Azizian
