It’s kind of nice to have an excuse to go back home every now and then. This weekend I went back home to get some paperwork for the move. (Over Labor Day we went back to CT to do the same for Paul and had a nice visit.) While I was at my mother’s visiting she showed me a quilt top that she had come across in her collection that my great-great-aunt Lib had made:

It’s all meticulously sewn by hand but she never got around to backing it or quilting it. My mother is trying to decide what to do with it since she is a machine quilter.

Here is a picture of the back of it:

It looks like Lib had marked a line on each piece to indicate where to sew. I’m amazed at how precise and consistent each of the stitches are.

I thought the pattern looked familiar so I looked it up in my various quilt pattern books. It is a Pieced Star. I did a variation on this pattern a while back:

“Pieced Star”, 2012, Encaustic, encaustic monotypes, book pages, pigment stick and gears, on steel, 32″ x 32″

Here is how Elsie’s memorial quilt is coming along:

Fortunately while I was up Veazie way I was able to find another newspaper article on my great aunt Elsie among my sister Diana’s keepsakes:

This will help me fill out the rest of the quilt quite nicely. This is a great article about the 1986 RedSox (Spoiler Alert: they lost). There is a great quote later in the article about Fenway by Elsie: “I wish I could put a tent in centerfield and camp out there all summer”, said Mrs. Bogerts. I thought of that when I was there with my husband and his sister and brother-in-law on Thursday:

I’m sure Elsie would particularly appreciate the look of the three World Series Banners perched on the right hand side below the Fenway Park sign – it’s just too bad the first one came 8 years after she passed away.