My Trails End Quilters Album
Thinking about my daughter’s mini quilt album, inspired me finally to put together an album about my Trails End Quilters heritage. I’ve been researching my Trails End ancestry and the quilters who lived on this farm that was in my mother’s family for nearly 200 years.
My grandmother, Emma Tipple, who taught me quiltmaking when I was 8 years old, married Burton Coon in the early 1900s and lived the rest of her life on the farm. As my daughter and granddaughter have taken up quiltmaking and fabric art, I began to realize we came from a family of quilters...if they didn’t quilt, they encouraged us to quilt and enjoy quilt history.
My grandfather wrote about his mother quilting with her friends. My mother saved a letter from a cousin who wrote about quiltmaking when she was 6 years old.
Stories are evolving, patterns are coming to light, and my quilting ancestors have become more real to me. On my family blog, I share some of the “Tales of the Trails End Quilters” (http://trailsendquilters.blogspot.com ). So now I’m putting together an album about these ladies and their lives.
Do you have quilting stories to share….with your family and other quilters? They don’t have to be about ancestors, although they can be. Simply start writing about your quilting experiences, as my daughter does on her blog (http://meanderingthreads.blogspot.com) or in a notebook or album. And you’ll start own heritage for future generations.
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