My Sister Quilts

A while back my mom and I were cleaning out a bunch of stuff at her house and found a bunch of old flannel scraps from pajamas that she'd made for all of us kids when we were little. We decided it would be fun to make my older sister, Michelle, a quilt out of these. My mom cut out all the squares and it didn't fit together quite the way we were thinking so they got put aside. Then a few months before Christmas we came across the flannel squares and the scraps again when we were looking for some things in my mom's closet. I've had a lot of fun doing rag quilts lately with embroideries so I took the scraps home. I started looking through all my quilt and embroidery patterns and working up a few designs. Then when we drew names for Christmas, I drew my little sister, Heather's, name. So I decided I could make them kind of matching quilts. I focused on Heather's quilt first because I wanted it done by Christmas and then I was aiming to have Michelle's quilt done by her birthday which was January 7.


Anyway, I found a pattern I bought on a quilt shop hop a few years ago. It had embroideries for lots of primary songs. I made a matching pattern for a dedication square, a scripture about music, and a poem about sisters and then I got to work. I made the same embroideries for both quilts. I really enjoyed doing all the handwork. I ended up doing about 17 embroidery squares per quilt. I used DMC pearl cotton embroidery thread that I bought on clearance a long time ago. I really liked how they turned out. I liked the texture.








For Heather's quilt I went and got 9 different flannel prints that corresponded to things she likes. I found some really fun prints so I was really excited. (All of the above pictures are from her quilt.)


And for Michelle's quilt I used the scraps and squares that my mom had given me. It turned out a lot different but I liked it too, very old-school 70's.


I really enjoyed doing them and I counted them for about 40 projects, one for each embroidery and then a couple each for sewing, cutting, and desigining the quilts. I think my sisters really liked them and were very surprised. They both thought they would never get one of my rag quilts since they're not having any more kids and I usually do them for babies. It was really fun.