MaryJane’s Chapter Quilt

Posted on July 7th, 2006 By ljrobinson at 11:13 am (All, Best of LJR, Two legs)

My friend Cammie and I signed up as a “Farmgirl Chapter” and I made a quilt square for the Chapter Quilt that was displayed at the Farm Fair MaryJane Butters holds at her place in Idaho annually (I think that this was the second?). It seems like it would be a really fun thing to go to but Idaho is a long drive from Michigan, so my square got to be there in my stead. Mine is the one in the lower, left hand corner. I’m really, really sorry now that I forgot to take a picture of it before I mailed it off.

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Gloria Walls of Texas pieced and quilted the quilt out of the goodness of her heart. She has a quilting business called “Strawberry House Quilting.” Here is an excerpt from her brochure:

“Happiness is finishing and owning a quilt! Have you always wanted a beautiful quilt for your bed, a guest bed or even your sofa? Well we could design one or pick an old favorite, with your special colors. It can be done! Or do you have a quilt top ready to be quilted? We could also get that completed. Sandwiched with batting, backing and finished off with a binding! Maybe you have an old family quilt top that needs finishing–just call me! Together we can get it finished.”

The picture and excerpt were taken from MaryJane’s Farmgirl Connection.

6 Comments

  1. Dena said,

    July 7, 2006 at 1:59 pm

    What fun. Did you applique your square?

  2. ljrobinson said,

    July 7, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    No, it’s embroidered. It’s all in red work. It was popular because there were so few colorfast threads available and Turkey Red happened to be colorfast.

  3. Madeleine said,

    July 7, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    WOW, that’s beautiful! That’s so fun that your square got on it! That’s okay that you didn’t take a picture, hey, maybe you could ask if we could have close up pictures of all the squares so you could get pictures of the other ones and yours! Pretty sneaky huh?

  4. MichelleTN said,

    July 8, 2006 at 7:10 pm

    Love it, love it! It is so beautiful..love your redwork, too!!!! Thanks for sharing!

    Michelle

  5. Lacy said,

    July 11, 2006 at 12:00 pm

    Your square was beautiful! I was lucky enough to see the quilt in person, and all of the squares were so beautiful… I’m very jealous of your embroidery skills…

  6. Barb! said,

    July 17, 2006 at 3:19 pm

    Cool! You know I love it! (and you know why…) mmmm…embroidery!!

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