Five years ago today -- July 22, 2005 -- my mother-in-law won the the best of show award at the Thumb Area Quilt Guild's Farmers' Festival Show with her quilt, "Pauline's Bouquet." The quilt's pattern, Blooming Nine Patch, is a popular design that uses eight fabrics within close print and color families.
Now a resident at Country Gardens, Mom Eichler has continued her love of quilts. Just yesterday I took a small quilt that she and I worked on together over to her apartment. I hung the quilt on a wall where she could admire yet another quilt that she helped to make.
She's quite a quilting buddy and a prize mom.
Copyright 2011
Wanda Hayes Eichler
Gorgeous quilt and lady! I didn't know that Pauline quilted - not sure I how missed that. mj
ReplyDeleteBetween Val Hayes and Pauline Eichler, these two women accomplished 3 Baltimore Album quilts and many, many more. MB says you have your PhD in Quiilting when you do a Baltimore quilt! Great moms, great quilts. WJ
ReplyDeleteI always admire the handwork behind quilting. The amount of patience put into stitch after stitch after stitch. It's always fun to look at how evenly spaced the stitches are made. I was once told that the "veteran quilters" could tell who put the stitches into a community quilt.
ReplyDeletePauline's Bouquet is a masterpiece indeed. Thanks for sharing! BE