The three girls' quitls

This weekend I got to meet a new customer who would like to take a pile of special garments that her two girls wore as youngsters and make quilts for both of them and one for herself.

With three quilts on the design board, it is an interesting task to keep all the ideas and garments straight. But, Mom is very organized, practical and very consistent. She is also very visual and asked if I could produce some samples of the initial quilt ideas she had. Fortunately, we agreed to use scraps so we didn't deplete the special garments. The result of the samples was quite interesting - to me. Mom was able to make decisions on the quilts for the two girls and the sample for her was what she asked for but not what she wanted. So I'll make a new set of samples now that we know more about what she wants.

For Stella, we are going to do simple 4" x 4" blocks on point. Her quilt will lean to the aqua and blue colors. It will have two borders - inner probably about 2" and the outer one 4" or 6".

Here are the "special" garments that Mom pulled out just for Stella.

And the ones I pulled that I thought would make Stella's quilt the calm, mature theme that we are looking for.

And here are the "special garments for Hazel. Not as many - second child, you know - but enough to start the theme for her quilt. She is the "rock star" who likes all bright colors and doesn't mind a little chaos. Her quilt will be hex's - probably 3" - 4" across. Some of them will be solid - to take in a special pattern or saying and others will have six triangles to make the Hex.

Here's the possibilities for the rest of Hazel's quilt.

Of course, both quilts will have some of each other's garments and there will still be enough left to make Mom's quilt.

After the first of the year, we'll get together again to make final decision about who gets what garments and to finalize the design for Mom's quilt.