Upholstery Quilt

Here's a cute little wall hanging I did a few months ago. A friend of mine was put into a nursing home a few years ago and her and her son told me they wanted to give me all of her craft supplies. I had no idea how much stuff she had accumulated until her son said, it will be several truckloads at least.

Three days, 8 truckloads, and a rented storage unit later, I had all her craft supplies. The crafts included, fabrics, plates, ceramics, books on all kinds of crafts, candlemaking supplies, painting supplies, silk flowers, grapevine wreaths, beads... you name it and I now had it. At first I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Slowly reality began to set in however, and I realized I would never do all these things. So I loaded up the car (several times) and took loads of things to nursing homes, daycares, my church and to Goodwill for their use in daycare activities. Eventually, I was able to bring home all the items I thought I might actually use, and I shut the storage unit and quit paying monthly payments for them to store everything for me.

One of the things in the stash was a plastic container of sample squares of upholstery fabrics, a large container of all kinds of ribbons, and a large container of all kinds of lace and doileys. So from that stash I made this little wall hanging to put over my organ in the frontroom. It came out kind of cute and these colors are perfect for that room. The fabrics were pretty stiff to try to work with however. It was difficult to find enough blocks of the right colors that would work together, but eventually I came up with this. Someday, I might just take all the leftover squares and make a crazy quilt.