An Awe Inspiring, Swoon Worthy Quilt!

This week’s blog hop stop on the book tour is Janet at Quiltsalott.  I started following Janet and her work shortly after she started blogging, admiring from the start her fine needle skills and wonderful colour sense.   A dedicated hand quilter, her prolific output and enthusiasm on all quilting fronts is inspiring, and if I have moments of lagging production I know I can live vicariously through her abundant efforts. One day Janet announced, spurred on by Tracy, that she was starting a new quilt.  Not just any quilt, but a reproduction of Susan McCord’s “Vine Quilt“, my all time favourite!  It boggles the mind how Susan McCord found the time to complete all of her magnificent quilts while raising seven children and managing all the work involved in keeping a farm.    This is Janet’s work in progress:    

  Janet’s skill and tenacious efforts as panel by panel she interprets Susan’s masterpiece, leave me in utter awe.  She has posted some fabulously helpful tutorials and is providing her pattern for her interpretation here,  sized to fit more modern beds.   My dear friend Nancy taught me how to string piece and she has what surely must be one of the largest and finest collections of string quilts ever amassed.  Nancy and I have talked frequently about the Susan McCord quilts and she is convinced that Susan string pieced all those leaves and buds because she loved doing so, not because she did not have other fabric.  Her use of them over and over again in her quilts certainly attests to her love for them!   If could meet Susan today, I would like to ask her if she chose the fabrics specifically for each leaf or chose them randomly and what her process was for piecing her leaves?  What question would you ask Susan if you could?

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