Grandma Blanket #1

My Grandma Scoresby had a tradition of making a quilt for each of her grandchildren when they got married.  When my she passed away, she left lots of quilts in various stages of completion: finished, all done except the binding, the quilt top finished, the quilt squares cut out, and then just the fabric.  At the next family reunion, much of the time was spent finishing as many of the blankets as we could.  The blankets were then distributed to the grandchildren in descending age order as far as the finished quilts went, and then the remaining grandchildren picked what tops they wanted, etc.  I was lucky enough to get one that only needed to be bound.

This is Emily modeling her Grandma quilt.

While we were working on the various blankets, I noticed some scraps of fabric that looked very familiar and then some that I just really liked.  I secretly took the fabric squares and vowed that I would turn them into some more grandma blankets for nieces or daughters (it was all girl fabric).  This past spring I picked up the fabric that Mom had been graciously storing for me and starting figuring out how I would turn them into a blanket.  The squares weren't the same size, and the fabric was flimsy polyester stuff.  I eventually figured out what I was going to do, and tonight I finished the birdies completing the first of two Grandma blankets.

The green and purple squares are the original Grandma fabric.  I added the white minky fabric and then the purple butterfly flannel for the backing. I decided to try a new style to self-bind the blanket and give it the border.  It was not nearly as easy as the tutorial on the internet made it out to be.  I would not suggest it!  And, then I also forgot how I was supposed to layer the top, batting, and back and ended up with the batting outside on the first try.  I wasn't about to pick it all out, so I just cut the batting off and resewed it the right way.

Even though it isn't perfect and does have flaw, I'm excited that at least one child will have a Great-Grandma blanket.  Hopefully, Ben will be wrong and we'll have at least one girl so our boys won't be traumatized by using a purple blanket...