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I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I posted a blog. We usually get a little slowdown in June after graduations and then again in January after Christmas. Well, neither of those happened this year. Mind you, I’m not complaining. I did get to go on a quilt retreat at Quilter’s Cabin in…
Read MoreAnother West Houston Quilter’s Guild quilt show has come and gone. It’s amazing how quickly two years flies by. I was fortunate to win ribbons on all three of my quilts. The one pictured is the quilt that I made as a wedding gift for my niece in New York. This quilt was awarded a…
Read MoreOne of my relatives recently told me that she didn’t expect me to make a quilt for a wedding gift for all of her grandchildren. (She has twelve.) I told her that I love making them and the first thing I do when I hear of an engagement is to start planning a quilt. I…
Read MoreMy husband and I went to a book signing party yesterday at the home of one of his former co-workers. I had given the couple a quilt when they got married and later the co-worker hired me to make a Crown Royal quilt for her husband. He had gray Crown Royal bags, so I wanted…
Read MoreYou might have noticed that I have a new logo on my website. It was designed by my very talented niece April. She majored in Art in college and has been teaching high school, but this coming school year will be the first year that she will be teaching art classes. As she says, it’s…
Read MoreOne of our great-nieces got married Friday night and of course it was an occasion for me to make another quilt. This particular great-niece has three younger sisters and six younger female cousins, so there will be plenty more to make in the future. And I have another niece getting married in October, so I’ve…
Read MoreAt our recent retreat, our bee members presented our “elder stateswoman” with a Round Robin quilt. Shirley had given us the center medallion a couple of months ago and asked us to complete it for her. Each of us took a turn at adding pieced borders to the quilt and she did not see it…
Read MoreIt seems I’m in the stage of life where I have a lot of special occasions that call for me to make a gift quilt. This particular one is for one of my nieces who is very dear to my heart. She lives in Maine, so I don’t get to see her often anymore, but…
Read MoreOver fifteen years ago, I heard a motivational speaker say, “You’ve got to find your people.” Her philosophy was that in order to be happy, one needed to surround oneself with people who have the same interests. I knew right away what kind of people I needed to find…..quilters. So I joined a quilt guild…
Read MoreAs promised a few weeks ago, I am sharing a photo of a quilt I started at retreat in August. I got it quilted and bound and it is now in a gift bag to take to a great niece’s wedding on Saturday. I hope she and her new husband like the quilt as much…
Read MoreQuilters never get tired of making quilts, even in the heat of August. My friends and I had another retreat at Quilter’s Cabin the first week of August and I got to work on another wedding gift quilt. I still have to add the borders, but you can see the partially finished project on the…
Read MoreToday’s post is short and sweet. Because I’m always preserving memories for others in T-shirt quilts, I wanted to share a very precious memory of mine from last night. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a picture of my granddaughter with the quilt I made for her as a wedding gift. Well today I…
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Take a look at our Gallery to see examples of the T-Shirt Quilts as well as few of the many other quilts we have made.
I started making quilts as a child and have been quilting for others for over twenty years. Quilts that I have quilted have been featured in several quilting books and magazines.