Children's Hands Handmade Quilt
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Children’s Hands Handmade Quilt hanging at one of our local church community rooms. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Children’s Hand Handmade Quilt
I found this charming Children’s Hands Handmade Quilt and wall hanging in the church community room where our local master gardeners meet. The handmade quilt happened to be made under the direction of a gardening friend who happened to be at the same meeting so I was privy to some of the inside stories of how this was made.
Harriet said the fabrics were tie dyed, also by hand. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
The fabrics of this custom handmade quilt are interesting. Turns out the quilt fabrics were hand dyed, giving the charming custom quilt a rainbow effect.
Each hand also has the name of the child at the bottom of each quilt block.
Meet Harriet Bain, the co-director of the quilt project and my gardening friend. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Harriet shared that they added what the children did in the margins, a lovely way to mark their accomplishments and celebrate them at the same time.
Stippling quilting gives this custom handmade quilt a third dimension.
Now here’s how all of the handmade quilt blocks look together.
Here’s the entire quilt, isn’t it interesting how every hand is different? (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Such a simple design, the outline of a child’s hand. And yet every hand looks just a little different - in size, shape and dimension.
