The second the All About Alzheimer’s Carnivals at Alzheimer’s Notes, where I’m a co-blogger with Liz Lewis, is up and running. It’s a platform for you to write your thoughts and feelings about Alzheimer’s and caregiving if you’re involved in these areas. You also might tie quiltmaking into it.
My daughter and I both were involved in […]
Quilters continue to respond to my posts about quilting, family times, and tea time rituals that bring back memories. They also share stories of memories-in-progress as they gather with children for cooking, crafts, sewing and quilting, as I did with my grandmother and aunt. We also created memories in my own home which span the […]
Quilting poems and stories have great appeal. Why not write some of your own? Or share those you write? I often work with youngsters in poetry writing. We find the acrostic form frequently is easiest for them to start with.
What about an Acrostic Quilting Poem? This can rhyme, be unrhymed, tell a story, give random facts, […]
I discovered today, a most amazing crazy quilt with it’s history, at Fiber Fantasies’, History In An Antique Quilt post. The author purchased the quilt at an estate auction, then went on to research the history of the quilt, the home, and the quiltmaker. She explains:
I was unaware of this home’s history [located in Cedarville, […]
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 […]
Quilts with a flower garden theme often remind me of my grandmother who taught me to make patchwork quilts. Then when I see the Grandmother’s Flower Garden design, I think of the lovely flowers that abounded in the yard of her farmhouse. We had flowers at our farm, but nothing compared with […]
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 […]
Do you have a notebook or sketchbook for jotting quilting thoughs and designs? These can consist of various types and sizes and used for a number of purposes, depending on your needs.
My daughter has a sketch book, about 8 1/2 x 11-inches in which she sketches ideas for quilts. Perhaps she sees a flower that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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