Apron Strings I
When we cleared out Mum and Dad’s home in Saskatoon I kept a few of Mum’s aprons. I always planned to do “something” with them, and over the years my ideas changed. When I started quilting I thought I could make a set of potholders for Stacia, Deloise and myself.
Apron Strings II
It took a long time to rip the aprons apart, but I ended up with enough material to make three table runners. Each runner has an original apron pocket used in the design, and the bindings are made from the waist ties.
Apron Strings III
Stacia gave me my first free-motion quilting lesson, and I tried something a little fancier with the one I kept for myself.
The photo at the top is one of the table toppers covering Mum’s sewing machine.
These pieces were the first blocks I made when testing my theory for making “The Cat Came Back” quilt. They were pinned to my design wall but I wasn’t sure what I would do with them. When we visited Elizabeth in November she mentioned that she needed potholders. Voila – they now had a purpose and a home. I quilted them after my first set of free motion quilting classes. The centers are framed using a stitch-in-the-ditch method and one of the decorative stitches on my machine. Elizabeth received them for Christmas 2011.
