Wednesday, November 16, 2011

A Quilt Story to Remember

Here's an amazing story about a quilt.
I made this quilt for my brother-in-law and his family for Christmas some years ago.
Their kids were playing with a reading lamp near the bed and knocked it over.
 Some time later, as they were getting ready to leave the house for the day, my sister-in-law realized she forgot something and ran into the bedroom, only to find the quilt smoldering and smoking.
 She soaked the quilt in the sink and saved her home just in time.
Luckily, she was inspired to run back inside the bedroom.
 Luckily the quilt was folded over and the light bulb only burned through the quilt not harming the mattress.
 Luckily it was only burned on the very corner and a simple fix.
 Luckily I had exactly enough scrap of that stripe fabric left to rebuild the border.  Stripes - especially uneven stripe like those - are so forgiving!  You can't even tell where I pieced in the new fabric...
...Unless you look at the back ... I used what I had on hand.  A slightly different neutral muslin.
Oh, well.  It will serve as a reminder scar, I guess.
 All in all, the quilt was saved and, more important, their home is saved too.

 It's still a beautiful quilt with many more years of use in it.
I finished it in time for my sister-in-law's birthday, so as a gift to them, I appliqued a fourth little cub because #4 is coming this winter.  Cute, huh!


9 comments:

Becky said...

O, I love that story! What a great fix you did on the quilt too!

Little Penpen said...

Adorable little 4th cub; what a great story; the quilt has become even more special with all its new 'history' involved. so glad their house was ok!

Shannon said...

So cool that you were able to fix it. I love that quilt. Good job!!

Nikki said...

Love a story with a happy ending! Nicely done!

Sandra said...

Wow! That's quite a story. So thankful to hear that both the house...and the quilt were saved. Who would have thought a light bulb could do that much damage?

Great job on the repair:)

Lynette said...

Wow! kinda scary! Sure love the quilt - can't believe how easily it fixed up. :)

Lynette said...

An amazing story. You could say the quilt saved the house.

Thankyou Karyli for my lovely bright Hexies

Lynette (Australia)

Miss Hillbilly said...

What a neat story. If I were the recipient, I would love it even more for all it has gone through! It is a wonderful quilt.

Anonymous said...

I'm your hexie flower swapper for December...I thought I would say hello...hope to make the hexies this weekend and send them on Monday..