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Have you discovered old quilts and/or patches in your attic or a closet? Are there quilting patterns there?
When cleaning out a closet in the old farmhouse where I grew up, after my mom developed Alzheimer’s, I discovered some old quilting patches. Some were simply pre-cut pieces and others consisted individual blocks with the pieces […]
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If your quilt could tell a story, what would it say? I think of the quilt I call, The Wedding Quilt. I recall it always lying on the bed in the guest room of our farmhouse. I can visualize one day, as Mother, Sister and I cleaned the room and made the bed for a visit […]
Sharing family memories and creating legacies seem to have been popular posts throughout 2007. Whenever I’ve written on this topic and shared stories about my quiltmaking, my mom’s, my daughter’s and granddaughter’s, I’ve received responses from quilters and fabric artists who wanted to share with me.
I hope I’ve encouraged you with your quiltmaking and […]
What interests you at Quilting and Patchwork?
As a new year approaches, I’m making plans for this blog and what I’ll include throughout 2008. Input from you, my readers and friends, would help me make this a blog that will help, inform, entertain, and encourage you as you pursue your quiltmaking and fabric arts this year.
*Quilting Memories […]
When I read about the pin cushion contest, Call for entries: Pincusions, at Noreen’s Hankering for Yarn, my mind slipped into “memory gear” and I thought of my first pinchusion. When my grandmother (Nanny) and I were quilting, she decided I needed a pincushion like hers.
I don’t know if she bought it, or found she […]
In my previous post about Grandparents’ Day, I suggested one way to commemorate was recalling your quilting occasions with Grandmother…if you quilted with her. So I should do this myself.
My maternal grandmother, Nanny, taught me the first rudiments about sewing and quilting when I was 6-8 years old. Our first sewing sessions together consisted of […]
Sunday, September 9 commemmorates National Grandparents’ Day. How are you celebrating this occasion?
*Visit your grandparents.
*Invite your grandparents to your home.
*Take them out to eat.
*Send them a note, a card, a gift.
*Phone them if they live too far away.
*”Adopt” someone for a grandparent if yous live far away or are no longer living.
*Teach grandparent appreciation […]
The other evening, my husband and I related to friends an incident that happened in a business we owned several years ago. We all laughed over what happened and it helped boost the couple over some challenges they were experiencing.
“Yes,” I thought, “time does lend humor to situations we find difficult to laugh at the time they’re […]
Writers say they have “muses” that inspire them with their work. Once at a writers’ workshop I attended, the teacher instructed us to describe our muse, either in words or a sketch.
Until then I didn’t even know I had a muse or was supposed to! However, as I put pencil to paper, a whimsical lady […]
You’ll find a delightful idea for using yo-yo’s as flowers in the latest issue of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine. Also, online, there is a free pattern for this Yo-Yo Tree.
If you have, or can obtain, the March issue of this magazine, you’ll find more information on Gathered Yo-Yo Flowers in the “Quiltmakers’ Workshop” portion.
Have fun making […]
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