Sunday, June 27, 2010

Signature Quilts


My mother-in-law received this signature quilt from her Mother when she got married in 1941.  The quilt contains embroidered signatures of her relatives, some of whom I have met.  Capitola and Clell Gray's signatures are there - they attended our wedding 30 years ago.  Wish I had gotten to know them better.  Adren Denny's signature is there - we purchased his house years ago, and our oldest daughter now lives there.  My husband's grandparents, William and Edna Green, have their signatures included and it was so fun to see my husband's surprised expression when he realized this.  The quilt is so precious to us and will be passed along to our daughters someday.

I recently participated in a signature block swap with 20 other online friends, and am looking forward to including their signed blocks in a quilt.  Lots of ideas for making the quilt are coming to mind, including adding the signature blocks to house blocks, star blocks or maybe a crazy quilt.  These blocks contain memories of happy times getting to know people who I may never meet from all over the world, and from several U.S. states.  Have you made a signature quilt and how did you decide to include the signatures?


5 comments:

Karen said...

It is good that you have a vintage family quilt. A good memory to be passed down.

Libby said...

What a treasure . . . . even more with the bond you have to the people named on the quilt. I think that is rare indeed!

Janet said...

What a wonderful antique quilt to own!! I plan to make a signature quilt - I should really start it. My husband threw a birthday party for my 40th last year and all the friends/family who attended signed a rectangle of fabric. The rectangles were intended for an album block.

Sharon said...

I quilted a wedding quilt for someone. They had the muslin backing at the reception and people signed all over it. Then it was used for the back when I quilted if for my customer.

Abbaskid78 said...

I have a blog about a signature/friendship quilt that was passed down to me from my great grandmother. Here is my link: http://christiancountyfriendshipquilt.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-07-10T09:15:00-05:00&max-results=7