Sewfine

Beautiful.

TanyaL

What do these mean to you? Do you want to maintain the handmade quality of these blocks? Do you feel like there is a continuity of generations with them? Do you just want to get them into a quilt so that it can be used? Do you want to have an heirloom when it is finished? I think you need to know more about what you want the finished quilt to be, then you can know what technique to use to finish it. Only you can know the answers to what this quilt will mean to you when it is finished.

thepolyparrot

Many, many old quilts combine handwork with machine sewing. :)

As soon as our great-great-grandmothers got sewing machines, they used them for piecing and quilting.

You can almost feel the relief when you look at the back of an old quilt - the blocks are hand-sewn, but then they are sashed or sewn together by machine. It's like the maker was saying, "Finally, I can get all these blocks put together and make something out of them!" :)

abc123retired

Such good advice here. Do what will mean the most to you-and don't be in a hurry to begin. Lay them aside and do some careful considering. You are really lucky to be able to have this part of your family history.

MsMel

Wow....what an awesome family heirloom you are going to have when done, no matter how you choose to put them together :)