Thoughts of Mother & Quilting on Mother’s Day
Even though my mother is no longer living, thoughts of her and quilting come to mind today. If it hadn’t been for Mother, my only quilting experiences might have consisted of those occasions when I was eight-years old and helped my grandmother sew quilts. After Nanny completed those quilts for her four grandchildren, I don’t recall her doing any more.
My mother didn’t make quilts, except perhaps when she was very young and sewed beside her mother and grandmother. Nevertheless, she inspired me to take up quiltmaking again during our country’s Bicentennial Years of 1975-76.
Mother operated a general store in a small village and sold may items besides groceries. Some of these were quilts. I operated a dressmaking business in our home in another state.
When the quiltmaker furnishing Mother’s store with quilts couldn’t keep up with the orders, Mother suggested I take some of my dressmaking scraps and stitch some quilts. Thus my venture into the quilting world and revived art of quiltmaking began.
Since then, at various times, I’ve operated a quiltmaking business from my own making quilts for Mother’s customers plus others, sold quilts and other patchwork items via mail order, taught quiltmaking classes, and began to write about quilting.
My daughter and granddaughter have become involved in quiltmaking and fabric art, carrying on the tradition of the Trails End quilters, those ladies descending from the quilters at my grandmother’s home, and her mother-in-law before her, at Trails End Farm, in Dutchess County, NY.
Find out more about my daughter’s quiltmaking at: http://www.meanderingthreads.blogspot.com and the Trails End Quilters at: http://trailsendquilters.blogspot.com .
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