DEC from Rachael - Susan McCord quilt

I am being vigilant about filling the posts in the order that they appear in the folders to see if I can do this without missing any. I have the add-ons pre-written - so there is no rhyme or reason to how they are paired. I was delighted that Rachael get's to be with this add on.

I don't know if Rachael quilts - but she has the design sense and attention to detail that would be very helpful if she decided to try quilting. Rachael knows that I have a thing for copying her work. If I copy this one it will have to be for people who have only 6 letters and one of them needs to be an I. 

Yup - I just checked the list and the only one who has 6 letters and an I is Juliana Quiroz. Sorry, Juliana - I don't think I'm going to attempt this with your Q. Maybe Rachael want's to give it a try. Not to mention that part where she'll have to figure out how to spell  The Quirozs - or Quirozes - or Quirozi.  Pluralizing names that end in s is so tricky. 

 

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The sub-zero blog posts. I think this is No. 3. I'm posting random stuff and I know there are a few quilters who read the blog. This is my all-time favorite quilt. I saved an article about it and then I found out that it is at the Henry Ford Museum (in Detroit) which is on my list of things that I'd like to do with my grandkids. I know they are very interested in seeing the actual bus that was found and restored - that Rosa Parks was riding when she made history. That bus in also at the museum and the museum is only one state away from them.  

Here's a link - not the best photos. It appeals to me because she was a kindred spirit to anyone who has a hard time parting with very small scraps of paper (or fabric). Her design was genius - for using up random bits of fabric that come in both square-ish as well as triangular-ish. 

LINK to McCord quilt at Ford museum

A tight shot of the. itty-bitty pieces

A mid-range shot of the vine pattern.

The coolness of the whole quilt.

The pink and green pulls all the random bits together beautifully.

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This is the blurb at the link - I need to steal that phrase - "rendered to perfection* - to use on envelopes. It will be the opposite of *deeply regret.*

Indiana farmwife Susan McCord made this stunningly beautiful quilt -- indisputably her masterpiece. This trailing vine design is a McCord original. McCord pieced together printed and solid cotton fabric scraps to create the over 300 leaves on each of the thirteen vine panels. McCord used variations of this vine in the borders of several quilts. But McCord's vine design is rendered to perfection in this work of genius.