Sunday, August 14, 2011
A Joint Effort
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Canton Canton Canton
More Canton
I Digress.....
I have been showing quilts I have made, but we went to Canton Saturday and saw some really interesting ones. This is a fan quilt from the thirties. The fans are on point except for the top and bottom border. Beneath the top border there is a sliver of a bottom of a fan and at the bottom is the rest of the fan. So country and a bit primitive.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
My Next Full-Size Quilt (I think)
I don't really think this is my next quilt, but of the ones I have it is the next one. I made this somewhere in the nineties. I really liked this row quilt and took a class that was only about 4 hours long toward the end of summer. We came to class with all the pieces cut, and in class we made one snowman, one mitten and one tree. Then, I didn't work on it for about six weeks. I started on a Saturday and finished on Sunday night. Most of the fabrics are Thimbleberries. At this point I had never had a longarm quilter quilt my quilt. But I found one close to

Wednesday, June 15, 2011
My Son's Quilt
him in a twin size old iron bed
that we painted red. By now
I had learned how to strip piece
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
My Second Attempt

In 1985 there were not many quilt stores. Actually the black calico was left over from a sort of long dress I made when I was pregnant with my daughter in 1974. You see, I was starting my stash even then and just didn't know what for. The blue was also left over from something. I just don't remember what but I actually bought the green and yellow for this quilt. Now I know it isn't very sophisticated but it was 1985. I also didn't have a book or the internet. Was the internet even thought of yet? By this time someone had told me about strip piecing and this quilt went a little faster. Once again I pieced it, my mother quilted it and I put on the binding. It is faded and worn but I can't give it up. We used it as a bedspread on our teak platform Danish modern bed. I am not sure what I was going for but thought it so sheik at the time. Mother quilted some of the hearts going one way and the other half going the other way. She tried to convince me that was the way they were suppose to be. I wasn't convinced.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
My First Quilt
I cut strips and cut the strips into squares. I didn't know about the strip piecing. When I finished my mother hand quilted the top and I put on the binding. The binding is bias just because I thought it had to be and it isn't double folded. If I had known how much I had to learn (and still do) I might not have continued. I was so proud of this quilt. And we used it, so now it is a bit faded and worn.
Friday, June 10, 2011
How It All Began
Early in the morning we would pick out a watermelon and put it in the cool creek. It would be ready by the afternoon. They had a jersey cow they milked everyday and we made our own butter. But my very favorite thing was gattering the eggs. I was never bored.
My older sister is another story... I think she was a little more citified. One day while she was painting her nails and reading Photoplay and Silver Screen, I discovered my grandmother's scrap drawer. It was the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers in the kitchen. I had to do something with the scraps. After a little begging, she agreed to teach me to piece. She had a diamond shaped cardboard and a pencil. I traced the shapes on some of the scraps and cut them out. I was ready to piece. While my sister was putting on her second coat of nail polish, I sewed the diamonds together. I was so proud of my stars and could not stop looking at them.
When it was time to go home, I took them with me. I kept them in my room and looked at them on occasion. But like many childhood possesions, they dissappeared. Or so I thought.
I graduated from college, got married, had a baby girl, and was still thinking about making a quilt. I was 39 and pregnant with my son. My daughter was nine and we went to Sherman to see my parents. Mother had been "cleaning out". She had found some quilt blocks and wanted to know if I knew anything about them. They were my star blocks. I couldn't belive it. Within weeks I was making a quilt top.....but oh that is another story.
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