GRANDMA'S QUILT

I learned to sew in my grandma's sewing room. We spent countless hours together cutting, pinning, and sewing pattern after pattern. While my mom was/is a master seamstress, the 4-H sewing projects were grandma and my thing. She loved to sew. Every time we'd visit (and we visited often) she'd show us a new project she was working on. We'd joke as we looked at her "stash" that we'd have a fabric sale after her death. Sure enough we did and made enough money for a scholarship at the local Extension office.

Prior to the sale, I took some of her scrap pieces to make a quilt of my own. A memory quilt.

It true Ahlrich/Wachter fashion, it took several years and many hands to get it to the completed stage.

I am not the master seamstress that my mom and grandma taught me to be. I can figure out things out as I go. I took large pieces of felt and measured 2" diagonal lines where I sewed scrap strips of fabric along. Putting multiple of these finished pieces together created a chevron pattern

Once again, not being a master seamstress required the assistance of my mom who helped to square the quilt and rented a quilting machine for us to quilt it together.