Here at Kansas City Star Quilts, we love history. And quilts have that unique ability to show a family’s heritage and culture. Rose Ann Cook does just that in her book Czecherboard Quilts: Stories from my father’s family.
Rose Ann honors her father’s family through quilts and projects. She has also recreated an antique quilt for anyone to make as an heirloom for their family. Here are just some of the beautiful projects you’ll find in Czecherboard Quilts:
Boys and Their Airplanes
Cardinals in the Texas Redbud
Innovator Bed Runner
Frydek Celebration
Meadow's Path
The Old Patriot
The Antique Quilt
To enter to win a FREE copy of this book, simply post a comment on this blog! If you were to make a quilt representing your family’s heritage, which colors would you choose and why? Do you have quilt family heirlooms in your family?
I’d use neutrals and brights for my family quilt. We’re a saucy bunch (brights) but don’t like to argue (neutrals). Thanks for the chance to win the book.
There are a lot of Irish and Scots, English and Welsh on Mom’s side of the family tree, so obviously my “heritage quilt” would have to have a lot of shamrock greens, blues, purples and grays. Dad’s side of the family is Mennonites os Dutch and Russian descent, so blacks and all of those great bright tulip colors would be appropriate. Looks like I get to use about every color there is!
No family quilt heirlooms from my side of the family but I have a lovely appliqué quilt from my husband’s side. Unfortunately, we don’t know the maker of this quilt.
love the Bed runner. I could do that in the colors that I have in the quilt on my bed.
I love all of those quilts! I received a quilt top that my Great Grandmother, Nan James, made, and I had it had hand quilted because it was fragile. It turned out wonderful. My heritage quilt would have to include green for the Irish, red, white, and green for the Italian. This looks like a wonderful book.
Thank you.
Connie
My MIL has a Baltimore Album applique quilt made in the 1850′s that has been handed down in her family. It’s a beautiful quilt! I love The Antique Quilt!
My husband’s father always said they were Polish. Turns out not so. They stem from Czechoslovakia. It’s all so interesting.
My father’s favorite color was blue. When I made an heirloom quilt it was blue.
Shades of gray fabric in a quilt would be nice.
Those are some beautiful quilts? A quilt to represent my family’s heritage would need to be the colors of the family farm-gold, green, brown, blue and red because my grandfather thought that all barns should be red. We have many family heirloom quilts in my family as my grandmother learned to quilt from her mother. My father remembers sitting beneath my great grandmother’s quilt frame and watching her fingers make her tiny stitches. I have carried the tradition on. For my parent’s 60th anniversary, I made a quilt representing their heritage with various blocks and a family tree in the middle.
I am fortunate to own several quilts made by maternal grandmother , and a couple of quilt tops made by my paternal great grandmother, but if I was to make quilt that had family significance it would be a copy of the King George the 3rd quilt. In honor of my dad.
I have a beautiful quilt that my Great Grandmother made & my Grandmother quilted it.
My mother’s favorite color was blue and mine is red, so a red, white & blue quilt would make a lovely heirloom,
I would use patriotic fabrics for my family quilt. There is a long line of military men and women in my family on both sides. I would love to win this book. Thank you for the opportunity.
I see several options for all of my civil war repro fabrics. My sister and I are a half a country apart right now, and reading a book written by our grandfather’s brother about family love and the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, we will be designing a quilt to share with each other from the stories in the book. I see ideas!!
My family are farmers and cheesemakers, going back several generations so I would choose earthy colours!
I have been working on a pattern for a family heritage quilt in my own Celtic Knot design. I think I will be using emerald green, deep blue and warm yellow with a creamy white background for this quilt …
Pat
On my Mom’s side, it would be red and white for the flag of Poland. My Dad was Canadian French and English, so the red and white would work for that also. Maybe a maple leaf quilt in those colors would be a nice project to begin planning. Thanks for the idea:)
I would make meadow’s path first! Thanks for the give away.
Count me in…this book looks interesting!
Oooh, green and shamrocks for the Irish side. My mom’s family were farmers, so some traditional, homey patterns for them.
I have a few prized items from my grandfather’s and my father’s desk. They now sit on my desk and I love it! I love the florals in this book!
Deedee
Topeka, KS
I will use Red
my mum favorite color.
Shades of green to represent my Scottish heritage would begin my quilt honoring my ancestors. I choose to begin with this color to represent the beautiful green grassy landscape seen from a birds eye view of this country. I don’t have any family members that quilted and so there are no heirloom quilts passed down through the generations. I hope to change that and begin a new family tradition of passing along my favorite quilt to my daughter.
I have two very special heirloom quilts. One is made of old wool garments. My great grandmother sewed the herringbone stitch around each block. The other special heirloom quilt I have is a orange-colored yo-yo quilt. If I was to create a quilt today using colors to represent my family’s heritage, I would have to agree with jawright3 and use colors represented our family farm which has been in the family for almost 125 years.
This book looks really interesting. I love the Meadow’s Path Quilt.I have a couple of quilts handed down thru the family made by my aunts and mother. They all seem to be multi-colored, much like our large family was. Most have passed on but the quilts remain along with a lot of family memories.