Happy Monday!
Did you have a good weekend?
Today's tale all began with the house that Linda and her husband are renovating. There is major work being done and they hope to move in within a year or two. I'll be glad because she will be a 10 minute drive instead of a 30 minute one!
Linda gave me a tour of the progress and we got to one room with wallpaper. The workers were about to strip it so I asked for a piece of the paper. It reminded me of so much decor from our childhood.
How many of you remember this kind of motif?
My mother had home dec. fabric in a similar motif. In the early 1960s, she made a slip cover for our love seat.
The wallpaper reminded me of a quilt I made many years ago for one of my son's girlfriends. The fabric reminded me of these same motifs and colors:
This fall I found a few orphan blocks from the quilt. I thought I would use them to make a table runner but I couldn't find an arrangement I liked. So I took the blocks apart and then happened to spy the vintage basket in the sewing room.
The vintage basket has small blocks that I knew would get lost in the big vintage suitcase so I stored them in a small basket in the sewing room. I think that a lot of the fabrics were samples; the fabric had motifs in different colorways and most were cut with a pinking shear.
To be honest, most of the fabrics reminded me men's pajamas of the late 1950s/early 1960s. Before I knew what got into me, I was cutting the vintage fabric and making four patches.
When I decided to frame the four patches with scrap fabric, I truly began to dance around the sewing room while I worked.
This scrap quilt will be given to anyone in the family who wants it or become a donation quilt. It even has a name:
"Pajama Rama Ding Dong". 😁
Not me. Today I'm just celebrating what I found in my stash. I hope you are dancing while you sew too!
Have a safe and happy day!
