I’m fascinated with quilts I often discover in classrooms where I do substitute teaching or visit to give author programs (I’m also a children’s writer.) Today I saw a quilt different from any I’d encountered before.
It consisted of 16 squares and was simple in construction. The youngsters had drawn their designs (actually pictures) on muslin […]
A friend and I were chatting about quilting today as we ate our lunches in the teachers’ room. (She’s a primary grade teacher and I’m a substitute teacher.) She mentioned that her quilting group met tonight. When I asked her about the group, she said they’d been meeting for 21 years, quilting together and sharing […]
Last year, second graders from a New York School invited several author/illustrators to contribute an illustration for a quilt block. The youngsters were studying about children’s authors and reading their books.
Although my children’s stories have been published mainly in magazines and I’m a writer more than illustrator, I did sketch the illustrations for an anthology, Tales of […]
Memory Quilts exist in an even greater variety than I imagined. As I began doing some research on the topic, I discovered the Quilting Beez (www.quiltingbeez.com ). Laurie Bird and Carole Bloom started out with a memory quilt kit for quilters to use as their basic building block. Now they’ve evolved into a place where […]
When our children and grandchildren take up quilting, too, it’s fun to find an activity we can all do together. Each one of us has her own style of designing and quilting, but it’s fun to share and compare.
Often when granddaughter Kara has an extra credit school project she turns to quiltmaking. Her latest one […]
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