Some of the best ideas come from the people who know us best. This project started with my mother — she designed a pattern that does something I never thought to do: take the leftover blocks from previous quilts, the ones that didn't quite find a home, and bind them together like a book.
The result is a coffee-table style quilted book, and this video is a first look at the demo version currently in progress. Each spread is made up of two pages — the right side holds a pieced quilt block, sandwiched with cotton batting just like a traditional quilt, and the left side is left blank, waiting to be filled with embroidered text telling the story of the quilt that block came from.
It's part scrapbook, part heirloom, part puzzle. The quilting on each page is still minimal — one of my ongoing goals is to learn how to digitize custom quilting designs to make every spread feel personal and intentional. I'm figuring it out as I go, and honestly, that's one of my favorite parts of the process.
This first book doesn't have a name yet. But it already feels like something — a collection of fragments that belong together, and a tribute to the woman whose idea made it possible.
I'll be sharing more as the quilting, embroidery, and stories come together. If you're a fellow quilter or just someone who loves handmade things, I hope you'll follow along.
click this link for a short video: https://youtu.be/wWvdGpAn_r4