Charming heritage LO. This really spoke to me as I've been going through some old photos I found in my parent's attic and storage closets. They have lived in the same house for 63 years and 10 kids. My great-grandmother was an avid quilter as well. Hoping to find a photo of her with her quilt frame set up. I love your idea of using flowers, butterflies, and other items to symbolize things about your subject.
You've done fabulous work making a "quilt" on your layout and all your other techniques and embellishments! I love this. It is a shame that one of the sisters faces are scratched out but it is a treasure to have that photograph. Very nice work! Wonderful journaling! And thank you, Katie, for the lovely remarks you left in my gallery. I really appreciate it!
This is beautiful and I love the history behind all the elements. I certainly admire the patience it must have taken to create each of these intricate details. The journaling is lovely as well.
This is absolutely stunning!!!! LOVE those squares and the gorgeous flowers - especially their significance here! That latticework in the bg is stunning. Gorgeous heritage page! I too have lots of family photos of relatives and grandparents I know nothing about having been born well after their passing. Love that you scrapped this!
Wow...what a beautiful layout! Love the old photographs and the story behind this layout. Fantastic job on the quilt patches. And the hand-stitched lattice work is fab and a perfect touch. So many wonderful details to admire. One can plainly see you put a lot of time and love into this precious keepsake. And it paid off and was well, well worth it!
WOW this is totally heartwarming-LOVE your storytelling! I have always wanted to try those folded square thingies but I have no patience---this is faaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous! I miss my gram every day-I was lucky enough to have her for 38 years and she is gone 23 already....you really made me remember her today and smile! LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really love your story behind this, thanks for sharing that with us. They symbolism you used on the LO is superb, and I especially love the "quilt squares" and stitching!
This is a LO featuring my great grandparents and six of their seven daughters (including my grandmother - the one in the corner with the bow above her head). I have no idea for what event this was taken and only know that it has to have been taken no later than 1958 (when my great grandmother died) so although I would like to enter a date, I didn't feel comfortable guesssing. There are seven flowers for all seven of the daughters. There is one big one for my grandmother and another big one for the great aunt not pictured on the photo. The two roses are for my great grandparents. The butterflies represent the three generations so far since my grandmother.
The journaling reads: " My grandmother died when I was just a toddler. Sadly, I don't have any of my own memories of her or even many photos from which to study her likeness. What I do know about her was gleaned from my mother's stories and the items that Mom inherited from her. We had a few pieces of her furniture that had been refinished again and again. And it was inside one wooden chest of that nature, that my mother had stored some well made doll clothes and a couple of quilts sewn with hexagons from the scraps of fabric that my grandmother had used to make clothes for her husband, children and herself.
I also knew that before that, my grandmother had grown up as the oldest daughter in a very large family. She had had six brothers and six sisters. I've recently found a rare photo featuring her with her parents and five of her sisters. Thankfully, my grandmother's features are all still intact on this one, but one has to wonder what her sister Anne did to another sister to deserve her image's desecration. Still in a way, I'm feeling* that it is* just another clue about my grandmother's life." (*corrected on LO IRL)
This is entered in the April 5 Ingredients + Yours-5 YRS Final Challenge here at Sb.com. I needed to : 1. Use Pink (lots of that in the background piece and flowers etc. 2. Use a Punch - I punched all the folded circle pieces on this. 3. Clock - Of course there is a clock tucked above the right hand corner of the journaling block. 4. Let's see some journaling - lots of that here too. 5. Use something from Marci's example (found here:
) I showed some sparkle on my one of my title words (she used it on her numbers in her title), I used some spritzing behind the title and photo info and I've included some flowers. And finally, I used a banner shaped piece (you can kind of see it under the "photo facts" journaling block as Marci did a couple of times on her sample.
I used a lot of scrap papers (including some from Kaisercraft's Porcelain Rose 6.5 x 6.5 pad and My Mind's Eye's Simply Delightful 12 x 12 pad) for the folded circles to sort of emulate the quilts as I remember them. The one with the blue background with the red roses is almost spot on with one of the patches I remember on at least one of the quilts. I also hand stitched the lattice work on the background with embroidery floss. This LO is also entered in the April Hoarders Challenge and the April Sewing Challenge.
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