Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

I have been spending ALOT of time gathering, cropping and adjusting photos to prepare them for the galleries on my new website. When I did my website in 2006 my daughters were looking forward to me having a very inclusive gallery. Well – that never happened. It was something that I was always going to do, but it never got done. So, now I am getting the photos ready so it will get done. Needless to say, I don’t have anyting new to show you so I thought I would go back and share a couple of projects that I have not shared before.

This first quilt was made for Pres. & Sis. Jackson after their move to Utah. He purchased the border fabric when he was a 19 year old missionary serving in a foreign country. While Pres. Jackson and his wife were packing to move he decided that he had been hauling around this fabric for too many years and it was time to give it to someone that would actually use the fabric. Thus – the fabric came to my home. I decided to use it to make a quilt for he and his wife as a thank you from our stake for all they had done for the church in the Westchester/Bronx New York area.

Here we are all set-up ready for Stake members to sign the quilt.
(Of course, the Queen of PROJECTS (this is the title my daughters gave me at the QQQ Birthday party) is still working on the binding.)

Stake members signing the quilt down at the Kingsbridge building.

Thank heavens for labels because now I can remember which year I made this quilt.

Pres. & Sis. Jackson in front of their quilt.

I had a bunch of pieces leftover and I didn’t want them left hanging around (which I still have a few pieces doing that in my studio) so here is the FUN BACK that used alot of those scraps.

The next quilt is “We Love Kristin”

Kristin was a member of our Relief Society at church and she was going through a very difficult time so we (the Relief Society) decided to make her a wallhanging.

I had just discoverd folded hexagons so I used them for the flowers on this wallhanging.
Above is the front of the quilt.

Many of the sister signed squares that I incorporated on the back of the wallhaning. I did a hidden rod pocket so that the wallhaning could be hung on either side.

Again, another very fun back.

(Can you see a lecture developing here? Fun Backs – Going the Extra Mile.)

I used one of the squares for the label.

Hope your enjoyed a little stroll with me down memory lane.

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