My favorite September finish was re-binding the Dusty Rose quilt that my mother, Cleo Ringer, made for my niece, Mary Frances, in the 1980s. The quilt measures 48″ x 63″, and I believe the quilt block used is the Antique Monkey Wrench rotated on point. It looks to me like it was hand- quilted, though I have no memory of my mother doing any hand-quilting. I do, however, have a memory of her sending her quilts in the 1990s to the Philippines for quilting! Like mother, like daughter, though thankfully I don’t have to send mine out of the US for long arm quilting! When I visited my niece in Michigan in March, she showed me the quilt, and the edges were quite frayed. I told her that I would re-bind it for her and took it back home with me to New Mexico. I looked in my mother’s fabric stash and found two different fabrics that I could combine to make a new binding for the quilt. I put those fabrics away in a “safe” place, and to this day, I have NO idea where I put them, but they can seen in this post along with the frayed edge of the quilt. I cut about a half inch off the perimeter of the quilt and put a small swatch of the fabric in my wallet, so when I went to Liberty of London, I was able to find a fabric that would work well for the binding. See a close-up of the fabric in this post.

I finished re-binding the quilt mid-September and sent it off to my niece, and then remembered that I had not taken any pictures of it when I was finished! I blame it on post-COVID brain fog! Mary Frances was nice enough to take several photos in her home built in the 1930s. This quilt looks like it was made for her home. Below are several more photos that she sent to me:

As an aside, I made the indigo pillow on the bed for Mary Frances several years ago from other fabrics from my mom’s fabric stash:

My mom never included any quilt labels on her quilts, but I thought it was important to add one:

I did not have my act together in time, so I was unable to link up to Quilting Jetgirl’s September 2024 Favorite Finish, but I hope to do better with my October Favorite Finish!