Every quilt has a story, but this one is lacking a beginning. We discovered this scrapped beauty as an unfinished quilt top, just a few rows sewn together, after moving into my grandmother's home in 2004. My mom picked up from where my grandmother had left off. She completed it with the remaining triangles and used an existing one as a template for creating more pieces. Mom used random fabric scraps of all kinds collected throughout the years: including curtains; old, worn out clothes; and scraps from clothes she had made for my sister and I when we were children. Upon completion of the pyramid top, mom backed it in a soft yellow and binded it in red. She used packaged/pre-made binding (which she will never use again), and did a scalloped edge on the length of the quilt (which she will also never do again) instead of cutting half-triangles to square it off. Although the beginning is unknown, I do believe the quilt's story will continue to grow quite beautifully in our lakeside, country home.
~Daughter, Kim
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