I WANT TO QUILT

 

A QUILT I MADE FOR MY GRANDDAU

Friday, January 23, 2026 2:31:24 PM

I am watching SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL QUILT COLLECTION:AN OVERVIEW, prior to this I was watching a video on hand embroidery: HAND EMBROIDERY ART-Step by Step Design and Embroidery, because I want to quilt and embroider.  In my perfect world I would write and hand craft but in reality I do those things but I also must work. 

The reason for this blog: MARSHA SEWS AND GROWS AND COOKS, is to chronicle my journey, my struggles and my successes, but mostly struggles. I am ever learning because I often do something that doesn’t work, it is in those errors that I learn the most.

What I learned today, from this video, the basics are better than the trends.  I had long since turned away from quilting trends and amd doing those things according to how my instincts and desires lead me. Once upon a time people did it “that” way. 

For example: About 2 years ago, I started piecing fabric remnants together thinking I would just add pieces to the ‘thing’ until it looked like a quilt top. I learned in the video that in 1897 EDNA FORCE DAVIS started working on a CRAZY PATCHWORK QUILT that she completed in 1929  That is 32 years of sewing every now and then, I don’t know if they were called crazy patchwork quilts, patchwork quilts or just a quilt. Today they have precut pieces and books that tell you how to make a crazy patchwork quilt in addition to instructional videos.

No, it is not that I am not making a quilt incorrectly I am just not doing it like them. Today I learned what I knew instinctively, I have a unique style but it is not an original style. It is confirmation, validation that I am on the right track. The way I want to quilt is the way quilts have always been made but, like the quilters of the past, with my own unique style.

WRITTEN by Marsha L Foyd

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