I know it's a really off time of year, but I'm still trying to get caught up on things I want to blog about. Over the years I've mentioned that my mom has been making my sister and I a new valentine's quilt block every year since. It's so much fun to see what she makes every year, in a lot of ways it's a journey through her quilting interests. I think I last shared about this project in 2018, so I figured it was time for an update! You can see previous posts about valentine's here.
The first block was 2010, and it was actually a fully quilted mug rug but since the next year she started making the quilt blocks, when I assembled the first few blocks or so blocks, I included the mug rug so it could be part of the whole thing. Obviously I hope this quilt doesn't finish for a VERY long time, but I did decide to put together the first few blocks in 2018.
This is the assembly of the 2010-2018 blocks. So many fun things.
In 2019 she made us log cabin blocks, with silk screened letters. Mom does a lot of custom silk screening on her art quilts.
The 2020 block includes a printed (transferred?) picture of me and my sister from halloween 1988. It's probably kind of hard to tell from the picture, but I'm dressed as a pumpkin (on the right) and my little sister is Snow White (oh the black wig we had was so scratchy!) on the left. Of course mom made all our wonderful costumes.
The 2021 block is a traditional Ohio star, because around that time mom was piecing lots of Ohio star blocks to later cut up and make into art quilts. The resulting art quilts have the most beautiful piecing but don't look like Ohio stars at all. One of the ones she made this way just got accepted into the newest SAQA Global show, Nature's Canvas.
The 2022 block was made using a technique Mom developed to design art quilts using morse code. I think this one says "Love You" in morse code, the different colors and sizes of blocks correspond to different dits and dashes. She made a series of these and teaches this as a class if anyone is interested.
The 2023 block featured a bunch of fun fabrics that I think Mom got in Alaska the prior summer on their giant road trip.
The 2024 block was very exciting, it features an abstract pieced flamingo. In 2024, Mom started a series based on abstract pieced bird blocks and the first one was flamingos. I was so excited that it was accepted into Quilt National 2025 and just debuted there last month.
The 2025 block is sort of related to the 2024 block even though it's a log cabin again. The extra special thing about the 2025 block is it is made from all Mom's hand-dyed fabrics. In 2024 she started doing a lot of hand-dyeing and most of her art quilts (including the flamingo for Quilt National) now use her hand-dyed fabrics.
I love this project. It's so fun to get a new block each year, to see what she's picked, and to have to to add to a permanent, growing project. Love you Mom!!!
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