My Quiltin' Ladies Quilt

My daughter and I went to a church rummage sale a few years ago and as she was digging through children's clothing, I was just kind of wandering around looking a the junk that was all over the place and I saw a brown lunch bag lying on a shelf with 25 cents labeled on it.

Curiousity got the better of me and I opened the bag to see what was in it. It was full of tiny scraps of fabrics which weren't even worth 25 cents, so I started to put it back on the shelf. You know these had to be tiny scraps for me to put it back, because I am a quilter that saves most of my scraps for scrap quilts.

However, just as I was starting to close the bag, I felt something different at the bottom of the bag. I pulled it out and it was folded up vintage squares of "old time" ladies quilting together. I immediately decided the bag was definitely worth 25 cents, so I bought it.

The squares were all in black and white, so I decided to do a black and white quilt with them. After spending over a year collecting the different fabrics I wanted to use and trying to decide on the design I would use, I began putting it together. I loved the way it turned out, and it now holds a prominent place on my sewing room wall.