When my Nan died back in 1988, I asked if I could have some of her old dresses - they were all of a particular style and very much "Nan". Mum had recently made a patchwork quilt and I had it in mind to make one with Nan's fabrics. Up to a point, it worked, but I did have to supplement the fabric with some charity shop dresses - all the same old fashioned style - and I also used some old sheeting for the plain cream hexagons.
The hexagons were all tacked onto cardboard, and then hand sewn together, keeping the cardboards inserts until the quilt was big enough that I could start taking the middles out. Once I'd finished with all the hexagons, it then took hours and hours of straight machine knitting!
The final stats:
400 index cards, 725 hand cut and stitched hexagons, 12 of Nan's dresses and nighties, 2 charity shop bought Nan-style dresses to supplement fabrics, 3 plain fitted double sheets, 2 kilometres machine stitching, 4 kilometres hand stitching. 31 years!
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