Quilt by Hand

My mom was teaching a quilting class, all of the fabric was recreated Civil War fabric, and each block is designed after the quilt blocks in this book. http://www.amazon.com/The-Civil-War-Diary-Quilt/dp/0873499956/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341682668&sr=8-1&keywords=civil+war+diary+quilt

All the quilting is done by hand, so it has taken me three years to get 26 blocks done. I need 100, it is going to take me awhile.

A lot of people think quilting is a chore, I love it. I love to see the blocks formed and finished. I am curently working on one called Dark Gloom, the picture in the book shows purple and black, but I am doing mine purple, orange, and blue.

These quilt blocks are the ones that I have finished, I have around 10 cut out that just need to be sewn.

The blue, yellow, and red one is the lasteed one I did.  

Its interesting because more people like to do the ones with big shapes becasue they say it takes a shorter amount of time, but I like to do the ones that have little bitty pieces, they give me more of a challenge and I think they take a shorter amount of time then the big ones. 

I'll keep you updated.