Make a Quilt Card - Inspired by Any Quilt You Own!

You can make a quilt card inspired by any quilt you own – it might be the pattern or it might be the colors.

For this card, I used one of the many quilts I have collected from garage sales.

I took the pattern for this card right from the quilt – cutting our 3/4″ squares and then cutting some of those in half to make triangles. Again, start from the inside block and work your way out for the middle row and then build from there.

You can see me do this in the video above.

This is a particularly fond, but sad, memory for me because I met the quilter. She was in her 80’s and doing a garage sale with her daughter and granddaughter. I was so sad that neither of them wanted to keep her beautiful quilt!

She had also put tape over a few parts of this quilt top where she felt she had made a mistake in sewing. I told her I loved the mistakes – its part of the charm of homemade (I really would never have even found them if she hadn’t pointed them out) – and that I was going to hand it over my sofa instead of finishing it as a quilt. She was thrilled that her quilt was going to someone who would treasures it forever —- and it only cost $20.

I wish I had gotten her name and address and sent her a thank you card – but in the rush of a day of garage sailing, I hadn’t even thought about that and I would never remember even the house — she that woman has held a special place in my heart for many years!