You know how quilters have WIP’s. Sometimes stacked to the ceiling?
This summer a friend contacted me and asked I could finish up a couple of tops she had gotten from a family memorial . Great Aunt had passed and left bins of finished quilts, part finished quilts, and completed tops.
She liberated these two, and I finished them off.
Nicely done! I especially enjoy the trees.
I love all the colors.
Very special!!
The tree one I’d use as a tapestry in December!!
The floating squares is something I would happily live with all year round!!
So pretty!
This simple post is full of such love. Your friend who cared enough about her great-aunt’s work to select a couple to be finished and you who cared enough to finish a stranger’s quilts. And they’re both great looking quilts!
The quilts look amazing. She took a lot of care with them and it is heartwarming to know that they can be passed down and used even after her passing.
Both of them are beautiful!
I need to include you in my will as someone to inherit all of my unfinished quilts! Finishing them off surely means a lot to her family, and maybe even her 
[me, speaking in a blustery cartoon lawyer voice] Ahem, yes, right. Well, while my client is, of course, flattered at the thought of inheriting such a noble collection as this, one might like to finish one’s own works and therefore be in a position to bequeath the finished pieces to appropriate recipients based on style and colors. Perhaps one might, in a case of too many quilt tops, label the tops with recipients in mind and at the will reading each can be handed to the appropriate party to be finished or not as they see fit. Surely my client’s own home TARDIS is stacked to ceilings with quilt tops awaiting finishing and distribution. Blah blah lawyer talk blah blah…”
(Ignore me, I’ve had a lot of coffee this morning.)
Both of these are charming, but I do love the trees one best. You are a good person to offer these skills and services to those who lack them.
Uh. Counsel has advised me to finish my towering stack.
But Ive never been good at following orders. Gimme gimme gimme.
Those TREEEES! And the white one would look great almost anywhere. (I am picturing it in my guest room.)
I like your idea of giving away finished quilts is the best. Same with yarn and crafting supplies.
That’s lovely! I love the idea of having people finish off quilts made by people who have passed away.
the tree quilt is impressive, and i betcha that mini squares one was more work than it appears
