Dishtowel Quilt

Last August when my Father passed away, we spent the next week cleaning out his house.  There was still a lot of stuff that my Mother had left, even though she passed away in 1994. We went up into the attic and opened her cedar chest, and inside we found some things that have probably been in there since before she was married in 1947.  Dad was in the navy, and I imagine while he was away she was doing handwork and making things that she would use in her married life, and carefully storing them in  her cedar chest.  Every young girl in that day and age embroidered dish towels and pillow cases and aprons and things like that.  I found a set of dishtowels that I'm sure my mother embroidered, and then never used.  They stayed in her cedar chest until we found them 65 years later. So I brought them home, separated the embroidered part from the rest of the towel, and pieced them into a quilt, with variations of nine-patch blocks in between.  I love how it came out, a tribute to my mom.

This was also my very first attempt at piecing together a quilt,

and I learned about nine-patch quilt variations as I went along.