It's a Finish! Mother Goose Redwork

Mother Goose Redwork

It's a finish!

Hand quilted.

44 x 56

The redwork doesn't show up very well in the above photo but the hand quilting does. 

The Ruby Short McKim series of redwork illustrations appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Sundays in 1920.   And on Sundays in 2015 Martha at Q is for Quilter reproduced the patterns. 

I traced the illustrations on to muslin and stitched them with red perle #8

I bordered them with some red 30s reproduction fabrics. 

I guess you could mistake Mother Goose as a witch. She's riding a broom and not a goose. Goose must have been off laying a golden egg or something the day this illustration was made. 

I finished the top back in February 2017 and I could never figure out how to quilt it so it sat around for awhile. 

Last month I started hand quilting with white perle #12.  

The back was a print with some nursery rhyme characters. 

And now it will go into the hope chest and be a gift for my first great grandchild someday. And to go along with the quilt is an old Mother Goose book I received as a baby shower gift when I was pregnant with my first born who is now 47. Time flies!

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

 

What's in the Hoop?

I've been hand quilting a Mother Goose quiltie. 

It's about time since I finished the top back in February 2017.    

The Ruby Short McKim series of redwork illustrations appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Sundays in 1920.   And on Sundays in 2015 Martha at Q is for Quilter reproduced the patterns. 

I have been crosshatch quilting with perle #12 (if it is not too hot to quilt in this house without a/c).  I've been marking with a hera marker on these ten inch blocks. 

Right now I'm working on Jack Be Nimble. 

I've finished Jack Sprat and ...

...Ride a Cockhorse (although the redwork illustration was published as Ride a Stick Horse) and...

...Humpty Dumpty and...

...Old Mother Hubbard and...

...I thought this was Three Men in a Tub but it is The Three Wise Men of Gotham. (They traveled in a bowl not a tub and I'm not sure of their occupations. )

I thought this one was Little Tommy Stout pulling Pussy out of the well but it is Simple Simon. 

Simple Simon went a-fishing

For to catch a whale;

All the water he could find 

Was in his mother's pail!

When finished this quiltie will go into the hope chest along with "The Real Mother Goose" book. Both items will go to the first great grandchild. (I hope that doesn't happen for awhile. My oldest grandchild is only 17 years old.)  I received the book as a baby shower gift when I was pregnant with my first born. He is now 47 years old. I've read the nursery rhymes many times to my kids and grandkids and now the binding is a bit fragile but I think it will be able to withstand many more years of use.  I remember that my husband's cousin gave me the book and she mentioned to me that she picked it up with her S&H Green Stamps.  Remember those?  

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

 

Redwork Nursery Rhymes

When you don't have air conditioning you don't work on hand quilting big quilts this time of year. Instead you work on smaller items like these redwork Ruby McKim nursery rhyme blocks posted last year by Martha at Q is for Quilter. And with these two I now have completed 12 of the 20 blocks. 

I'm getting ready to go embroider some more blocks out on the deck, listen to nature sounds, chat with hubby and drink a margarita. Hopefully my embroidery won't be crooked. 

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

Mother Goose Quiltie So Far

Rows 1-3 of 5

1920 Mother Goose Quiltie Pattern by Ruby Short McKim as published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Martha at Q is for Quilter has been releasing a block a week. 

Joining others in some Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts. 

Sunday Hand Stitching - Nursery Rhymes and Alien Invaders

The blocks for row 2 of the Ruby McKim Mother Goose Quiltie. are finished  While enjoying my morning coffee I finished up Little Miss Muffet.  Martha at Q is for Quilter  releases a new block each Sunday.  There are 20 blocks total and I am caught up with all 8 that have been released.  

These will go into a baby quilt and then into a hope chest for the next generation of babies. 

Either today or later this week I'll border the blocks and add them to row 1. 

Meanwhile those aliens in the Attic Windows quilt have been sending me some signals that I need to get to work on some binding.  This will probably be a project for later in the day.  I need to wait for my grandson to go home today so he doesn't see it before Christmas. 

Slow Sunday Stitching Virtual Quilting Bee going on at Kathy's Quilts.  Join us.