Mama's Quilt

A few months ago my Mom began cutting out fabric leaves for an appliqued leaf quilt.  At the age of 99 Mama still loves looking at fabric and thinking about quilts..  She enjoys cutting fabric from templates and at one time cut out enough patches to make 3 dresden plate quilts!  Over her lifetime Mama made a quilt (or two) for each of her 5 children, and one for each of her 12 grandchildren.  This doesn't include the baby quilts she made when the grands were born....

My sisters and I love when she starts cutting quilt pieces and we know she really doesn't want to do much sewing anymore so we are happy to take over and help her get her quilt finished.  

This is how the quilt started.  My sister, Irene, sent this image to us while she was at Mama's and said she thought this is sort of what she imagined the quilt to look like.  Irene provided the backing, cut out the sashing, the white squares for the background and white fabric squares for the sashing....

I am not the greatest at applique so when I came to see Mom on my next visit I sewed the sashing together and made 2 groups so they would be ready when my Sister, Lynette, (who is great with applique!) came to visit Mama.........

Lynette appliqued all the flowers down and so then it was my turn again.  I told them I would sandwich and do the quilting if Irene did the binding. (yeah, binding is another thing I haven't perfected yet...but Irene has!) 

So this week I am visiting Mom again so I brought some batting with me and managed to get all my part done so now the quilt waits for Irene's magic!