Quilting
About My Personal Goal
This subject and how I got here is not, and has not, been funny; however, I can laugh about parts of it and I hope you can too. The first of December some how I got a fractured bone just behind my little toe and the podiatrist put a heavy boot on me. Oh me!! Here I…
Read MoreA Crazy Quilt Pillow
When needlework is in the blood there is no cure — one just has to deal with it. I came from a long line of women who did needlework of various kinds and I’ve indulged since I was nine years old when I embroidered my very first pillow top. I’ve made two crazy quilts —…
Read MoreNeighbors Visiting Neighbors 1992
Reflecting seems just the right thing to do as I bake cookies on a drizzly morning. As I roll out the tiny dough balls and place them on the baking sheet, I remember that morning during the week past. It could have been a morning fifty years ago — my quilting friend I were engaged…
Read MoreSpider Web Quilt/Men’s Ties
As I’ve told you before I’m no photographer, but I hope you can see what I try to describe as we go along. I’ve made three such quilts — one for each of our daughters and one for that great granddaughter, who was born out of wedlock and adopted. We hoped that she would show up…
Read MoreA Quilting Friend 1989
According to my dictionary, “a friend is one who is personally well known by oneself and for whom one has warm regard and affection.” Such a person came to the Windy Knoll last week for a visit, albeit brief. A native of St. Louis, my friend moved to Georgia several years ago, and as you…
Read MoreCommunication Difficulties 1994
Communication – the art of transmitting ideas of conversing, according to two of my many dictionaries. Apparently, I have lost my ability to do that with the younger generation. Perhaps I’ve written before about speech differences now and when I was growing up: Such as tough meant being mean and today it means good looking;…
Read MoreVisit by the Groundhog 1989
We had just finished our lunch on the sun porch with my visiting quilt friends when we saw the groundhog enter the garage. John took the dogs and the hunt was on. Ann and Geraldine had never even see a groundhog and now they were about to see one meet its demise. Sister and Jill…
Read MoreDoll Cradles and Quilts 1995
It didn’t start out to be like this – interesting how plans in reality change form and become something different. I have done quite a bit of sewing this year for two special girls in our lives and, of course, saved the scraps. For Christmas, we are giving these girls doll cradles – the pattern…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Note: You’ll remember that we’ve got a new laptop and can’t get acquainted with it — you’ll see as you read along. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lordy me, they’s a bunch of drawers that need to be cleaned out and I tackled one yistiddy. How in the name of common sense can a body collect so much stuff?…
Read MoreAbout Quilting 1989
Note: in the late 1980’s and 1990’s a very dedicated group of ladies, in Geraldine, had quilt shows, made and sold quilts and quilted for other people in an effort to build a library — where there had never been one. An American man, who worked in Saudi Arabia, read about our quilt shows and…
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