A Miniature Quilt

Remember Me

This is a miniature quilt that is 7 3/8" square. I designed it for a guild workshop. The blocks are 2" square, the sashings are 1/4" and the borders are 1/2". These are finished sizes. It is based on a mid-1800's antique signature quilt. The light center square is the signature square and people at the workshop signed the blocks for each other. Each block contains different fabrics, although all are in the blue or red family. (This was in keeping with the friendship aspect of the quilt - it was as though a different person had made each block. A green print was used for the sashing, border and binding. People at the workshop received a complete kit and only had to bring their own scissors, needle and thread and thimble. The project is completely hand pieced and all the pieces were pre-marked with not only the cutting line, but the sewing line as well. The kit also included complete instructions with card stock templates, so that the quilters could reproduce it on their own at a later date. It must have been a successful workshop, as later I saw one of the quilts displayed in a quilt show. I put mine on the back wall of a shadow box and put a reproduction of a tintype of my great-great grandmother in a frame in front of it. I will try to post a photo of that later. It is actually a double frame with the photo on one side and a sentiment that was written on the antique quilt that inspired the miniature: "This beauteous spread will say to thee, from one and all, remember me."
Till next time....

Sheila