Here is my entry for this year’s Blogger’s Quilt Festival. I had planned to post my re-make of an antique Album Quilt but, unfortunately, I am not quite done with the quilting.
This is a bride’s quilt I made in 2006 for my daughter, Emily. She wasn’t engaged at the time, but now she is. She and her fiance, Aaron, have been together for 8 years — since their junior year of high school. I knew they would get married some day, and I wanted to be ready.
The quilt is made with vintage scraps, mostly from the 1930s and 1940s. I had a little trouble working out the geometry of the 6-grid center hearts with the 4-grid border hearts, but I finally figured out the correct width of the white border to make it work. The quilt is machine pieced and hand quilted with a diagonal grid in the hearts, flowers in the block corners, and both hearts and flowers in the white border.
Thank you Amy for doing this — I love checking out all the wonderful quilts.
Emily’s Heart Quilt
Martha Dellasega Gray, 2006
machine pieced, hand quilted
72″ x 83″
What a beautiful quilt.
Another one that takes my breath away – this is so beautiful!!! I can’t imagine trying to do the math for this, Martha!
I heart this quilt! I love the scrappy look of the hearts and the fabrics are wonderful. Your hand quilting is divine!!!
It is gorgeous, what a great heirloom quilt! your daughter is very lucky to receive such a beauty.
What a sweet quilt!!! I’m sure it will become the treasure that it should be.
What a lovely Bride´s quilt! The hand quilting is amazing, and I love the scrappy hearts.
Emily is a very lucky bride to have such a talented mother!
Such a beautiful quilt! I’m glad you were able to work out the math. The hearts are perfect for a wedding quilt.
Beautiful quilting on this stunner too Martha. 🙂
Lovely quilt and congratulations on your daughter’s engagement.
What a stunning quilt!! Perfect bridal quilt!
Beautiful! Terrific wedding quilt! What a treat to see all those lovely fabrics every day and the quilting is wonderful. I love the quilted hearts in the border and the little flowers around the pieced hearts.
This is a beautiful quilt – great fabric, great quilting, and so nice that you designed it yourself I’m sure it is much appreciated, and hopefully will keep the couple warm for decades to come.
Martha, this is such a beautiful quilt! I love how you use white to set off the colors of the vintage fabrics!
There is so much to look at in each of the hearts. Very pretty quilt and a perfect present! The heart border is very sweet!
What a wonderful scrappy quilt. Thanks for sharing.
What a great original and perfectly suited wedding quilt. Thanks for sharing it, especially the close-ups of the vintage fabrics. Well done.
Come see my 1890 antique schoolhouse quilt and
black/white/pink scrappy miniature
Very pretty.
Hope your daughter and her hubbie get many years of good use from it.
You have created a beautiful work of art. I am sure it will become a family heirloom
Fabulous!!
This is beautiful. I love seeing all the fabrics in the hearts up close.
This is one of the most beautiful quilts I have ever seen!
Is there anyway I could get the pattern for this quilt; Emily’s Heart Quilt.
Thank you,
Marlene