In the 1940's in the coal region of Pennsylvania, my mom's friend Sue made a number of cotton scrap quilts tops. Sometime in the 1980's she gave two of them to my mom. They had never been completed and were in a bin with a quilt top Mom appliqued for me, but didn't complete before her death. I've been looking at these and visualizing them made whole and useful. The 40's quilt top had many fabrics throughout that had not held up to the years and so the structure of the quilt top had failed. I spent an afternoon cutting the squares apart, and then cutting the salvaged squares into four 2 inch pieces. Now, I am sewing them together with solid colors as exclamations bisecting the 4 squares. We'll see where this goes. I'm thinking I will use a dark neutral as sashing between groups of blocks, but I may just work out the colors and values and join the blocks directly to each other. My vision for this is still evolving, but I love the energy of the small prints, complex plaids and naive florals.
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