Beginning My Quilt “Memory Of Belonging”

I start at the beginning.  Which is the first two pieces of fabric I find that want to be sewn together.

See how that tea pot and cup work so well with the flower in the pot? The colors and shapes, the blue grids.

I’ve been collecting these vintage linens that so many of you have sent me for years.  Now they be put to work again.

This apron (I already cut the strings off) was a little more difficult.  All hand stitched, I love how the pocket covers the middle flower.  Looks to me like someone made the best of a mistake.  I wanted to keep it intact, but couldn’t get it to work with the embroidered teapot it so obviously went with.

So I removed all that lovely hand stitching on the pockets and cut the whole thing into pieces….

…then I sewed it back together creating another story for the quilt.

Such a pretty piece, that ecru linen with the embroidered blue flowers and lacey trim.  I knew there was a place for it, even though it was oddly shaped.

Then I found the tablecloth. I cut it in half making it into two big triangles.  Then I sewed the flowers above the teapot, pitcher and sugar bowl.

The cup on the other end found its own blue flowers to be with.

These are the pieces I sewed together today.  A good start for my quilt.  The geranium in the top left corner is an apron and I sewed it onto a pillow case, which is the trim on the bottom.

After I took this picture, I saw how two of the pieces would fit  together nicely….

Tomorrow, I’ll begin the day in my studio by sewing them together.