A case in point...

A found object - quilt top from my grandmother

Using up the scraps of many different prints

I was lying on the floor exercising this morning when I happened to notice, inside one of the under-bed storage boxes, a quilt top I had forgotten about.  It was one I got after my mom died and I'm pretty sure that it was pieced by my grandmother, Celia Peterson.  Most of the piecing is by hand but a few of the seams connecting blocks are machine sewn.  I'm not sure what decade ii is from - the 1920's or 30's perhaps?
  
The fabrics in the quilt are a perfect example of the "using up the remnants and scraps" I was talking about.  The prints are the kind she would have perhaps gotten to make my grandfather's shirts and her everyday dresses.  Some of the blocks have rather odd, asymmetrical combinations of prints that make me think she was trying to use up whatever she had.  


I remember many times lying in bed looking at the pieces in a quilt and remembering the dress or apron the print came from, whether it was mine, my mother's or grandmother's.  I'm sure if my grandmother were here she could tell me what she had made out of each one.  Little pieces of history, sewn into a quilt.  I wonder what else is hiding under my bed???