Hello, everyone. The other day I put up a photo of the quilt folded up on a rack.
Then yesterday I unfolded it onto a bed so the totality could be seen.
The large butterfly blocks were begun by DH's DGM, and work was in progress when she passed away, over 50 years ago. Some decades after that, my dear MIL found the box of squares and patterns and resumed work on it.
One day a package arrived in the mail, with the twelve large squares inside.
The small, needle turned applique butterflies on the edge, the sashing, and the borders were added by me. And during the (failed) first quilting phase, hand stitching on a frame, DD1 took some stitches as well. Thus "four generations" participated. DD2 was too young to stitch at that time but she remembers the frame in the living room.
Hand quilting didn't mesh with the rest of our busy life, so the quilt was put away for a while. Then last year we brought it back out and I machine quilted the rest. The scrap style binding was finished about a week ago.
Whew!
I did add a sleeve for hanging, too! Now to find the right hanging place and put it up.
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