Some times ya just gotta sew!

I have recently come across this magnificent quilt hanging on the landing of a stairway.  It’s considered a marriage quilt.  The bottom left and right panels depict the husband’s life and the wife’s life.  The main part at the top covers their married life.

The Whole Quilt.

I am assuming, from what I know of the family that the bottom right is the wife.

Right (Wife?) side.

and left is the husband.

Left (Husband?) Side.

I am also assuming that the wife’s mother made the quilt for them since the wife part is much more detailed than the husband part.  I could be wrong.  Maybe he just doesn’t have as many interests as she does.

But what is really amazing is the amount of detail in this quilt and the level of care that went into selecting the fabrics, to say nothing of designing it, cutting all the pieces out, and putting it together.  It is an appliqued rather than pieced quile and even though it is machine stitched and machine quilted, an incredible amount of time must have gone into making it.

For example, look at this little horse.  The fabric looks like it was a floral with very large flowers.  The horse was positioned so that when cut out part of what I assume was a flower turns into the saddle.

Horse Detail.

Or this bear whose paws are lighter, looking like she’s been walking through the snow for a while.  Note her cub considering climbing the pine tree to the left.  (Tree is out of this frame, but can be seen on the overall picture at the start of this blog.)

Bear Detail.

The chickens in this picture are part of that piece of fabric – not appliqued on.  The strange critters on the brown part of the mountain are also part of the fabric.  And I love the cats.

Lots of Details!

Three Bunnies Leaping.

More critters, but hung too high to see if they are part of the fabric or appliques.

Critters.

And this is only a sampling of what’s there to be seen!  I don’t know that I would have the patience to have fashioned such a huge work of art!