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Aunt Bill Rambles about Quilt Display
A few weeks ago I told you about a woman what come here and wanted to talk about old quilts. Would you believe she come here again last week and wanted some quilts to show in their display? You ort to a seen the ones she wanted. I can’t believe the quilts she took — wadd’n…
Read MoreAren’t Old Friends Wonderful? 2008
There’s a sign, painted on a piece of ten and hanging on my sun porch that reads: “Good friends – like old quilts grow more valuable through the years.” John and I can attest to that especially with the happenings of the last few weeks. A few weeks ago we were going on our merry…
Read MoreAbout Sand Mountain Pottery 2001
A visitor to our recent plant sale asked me what I knew about Sand Mountain Pottery and I began remembering what I had heard and read on the subject. It seems the visitor owns a Sand Mountain Pottery churn — a valuable piece of pottery. Several years ago we attended a most interesting auction in Fort…
Read MoreAlbertville Museum Quilt Display
A few weeks ago the museum director and a friend came to talk to me about quilts — old quilts. We had the nicest visit, as you know, quilts are my thing. The plan is for the museum to have an old quilt display and I was asked to come tell tales, etc. and I was…
Read MoreA Serendipity 2001
Indeed it was a serendipity meaning (according to my Funk & Wagnall),”the faculty of happening up on fortunate discoveries when not in search of them.” This certainly was the case recently when my phone rang and a lady asked if she and her sister could drop by. This was the week that The One I…
Read MoreA Place in the Country 1995
Dear Friend in the city: Before you give up that hectic, fast-lane city life for the simple, peaceful life here in the country let me tell you how it’s treated us since we came here. Remember the beautiful stone fireplace in the den — the one that evoked images of pipe and slippers, roasting chestnuts,…
Read MoreWhat Is Boneset?
When I cleaned out a closet last week I found boxes that I had forgotten I had and in one of them I found this scrapbook (I think I can remember the elderly lady who gave it to me — probably in the 1970’s) and it’s a treasure. For some time, each week the Georgia Market Bulletin…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Well, I ain’t never! I’ve got one of them Visa cards and shore do like to use it. Hit’s so easy just to pull that piece of plastic out and hand it over to the clerk in the store. I didn’t have nair’un when I used to walk over the road here and meet the Rolling…
Read MoreThe Optomologist Visit
Here this old couple goes tooling down I59 on the way to Billie’s appointment — 30 miles away in Gadsden. We hate being late, so we always leave in plenty of time; and this time we were in luck finding a handicapped park. I got signed in and had to look for a seat — that waiting room…
Read MoreSwedish Weaving
My new project is Swedish Weaving, but the book I’m working from calls it a Monk’s Cloth Afghan. Monk’s cloth is available in white, natural, black and lots of other colors and it’s 59 – 60″ wide. It has an interesting texture due to the weave: four vertical and four horizontal threads that create blocks. By…
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