Quilter's Dilemma Custom Handmade Quilt

This says it all, the quilter’s ongoing dilemma. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Quilter’s Dilemma Custom Handmade Quilt

If you spend any time around quilters you will hear a lot about their fabric stashes and where they found a particular piece. Fabric to a quilter is like paint to a painter. Quilters think and use fabric to make shapes on top of the geometric patchwork designs. In other words, a patchwork design can be altered by what fabric a quilter is using.

So this charming custom handmade quilt caught my attention at the Piece and Plenty Quilt Guild bi-annual show in Rolla, Missouri October 2018. Tucked away among a variety of miniature quilted wall hangings, this one asks the proverbial question.

Ironically enough, quilters began by recycling existing fabrics. Clothing, curtains, table cloths all became homemade bedding at one time. Perhaps the most iconic of all recycled quilt designs was the crazy quilt from the Victorian era. More affluent quilters could afford to buy fabrics while more modest artists used whatever was at hand and no longer used.

Just as every quilter has a story so does every custom personalized quilt. This one was made by Donna Rae Olson and already had a destination when it was just an idea.

Great use of this charming custom handmade personalized quilt. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

I can easily see this hanging from a number of quilter’s sewing room walls because it nicely summarizes the real quilter’s dilemma; how much of any fabric is enough!

Charlotte