That's beautiful, Jayne. Did you eyes hurt while you were working on it? Pink and Black are the colors I asked for in the BD swap.... @:) SharonG/FL

Great first quilt!!! Look on your batting wrapping and it will give suggestions as to how close (or far apart) the quilting should be. The one I am using now suggests 2". I am just learning to machine quilt (about 5 years now lol) and I love anything that doesn't have to be marked. With SITD it is sometimes not easy to stay in the 'ditch', but when the quilt is washed it doesn't show as much. The scrappy Irish Chain I am making for my sister is going to be mostly quilted on the diagonal. You can always mix it up and do different quilting designs. Have Fun! Rosa

There was no proscribed # of quilts for a girl to have.....this, as with so many other aspects of life would depend on her socio-economic situation and even geographic location. A family with little means would require all the children to work...to do their part for the family welfare, so those girls would simply not have the means or the time to prepare an elaborate dowry of linens. A girl from a comfortable family would be much more likely to have the means and the time to work on hers, and would 'add' fancier things like samplers (to use to help her when she marked all her linens), while a wealthy girl would spend her time, not on mundane household linens, but fancywork, to show her 'abilities'. As late as the late 1800s, this sort of thing was the case. My own grandmother, born in 1880, attended 'finishing school' where she learned to do fancy needlework, play the piano, paint china,etc - all considered 'ladylike' things to do. Her sister, my great aunt, wanted to go to teachers college and their father said absolutely 'NO"! So, she 'finished', and was given a wonderful string of pearls as her graduation gift, as all the sisters received from their father. My grandmother was married by this time, so her sister moved in with my grandparents, sold her pearls and used the money to go to college! What a woman! The 'moral' of the story is, I guess, each family was different, in what they could or would provide.

I need to find the post of the quilter here that had a penny hidden in her quilt as a child. I couldn’t find any references on line about it, but penny's always seem lucky, like finding one is supposed to bring you good luck. The new mom loved the quilt! I forgot to get a picture of the baby with it. Rose was sleeping and not happy when she woke up!