My mother, Vallanee Rose Hayes, loved to take a common quilt block and interpret it with lots of fabrics and colors. She told me once that you shouldn't begin to plan how a stack of blocks would go together until there were at least 30 or 40 blocks in the pile. One way of thinking about such a style of quilting calls that "scrap" quilting.
Mom would look for fabrics that fit the color scheme that she was working with. Her colors grew as she added more and more fabrics, more and more blocks. Her quilts were planned, yet serendipitous. They were scrappy, yet balance for dark and light, hue and shadow.
The pink quilt shown above fits Mom's style to a tee. She loved pink and made it the cornerstone of this quilt for which I did the machine quilting. My sister Martha owns this quilt now. It is truly quilt to be treasured.
Copyright 2012
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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