Quilting
It’s Life in the Winter Time 1989
What a wonderful day – the snow is falling. I have a quilt or two under way, we are well, and Sister and Jill are warm and content here on the sun porch with us. John is thankful that he looked ahead and put out enough hay for the cows yesterday. The wind is really…
Read MoreOld Timey Remedies and Superstitions 2005
NOTE: The remedies and superstitions written here are not medically proven – so try them at your own risk. In the days when country doctors were few and far between, folks had to do much of the doctoring themselves and some of these old remedies have been passed down through the generations. One most popular…
Read MoreEnjoyment in Making a Crazy Quilt
Weather here at the Windy Knoll is brutal and how I wish I were working on a crazy quilt. What pleasure! I’ll have to admit I don’t enjoy the first part. First I cut foundation squares — I cut some out of leftover muslin (in my mother’s day they called it Domestic) and then when…
Read MoreFlipper’s Back 2009
If you read articles written by Paul Finebaum, then you already know that Flipper is what he called Urban Meyer, coach at the University of Florida, when he said he was going to quit coaching and didn’t (or at least hasn’t yet). Having read this, I thought Flipper might be a fitting name for yours…
Read MoreTwo Christmas Quilts
It was about 30 years ago that we fell in love with a young couple in Marietta, Georgia and they were 25 years younger. For some unknown reason there was a bond between us that still holds today. We keep in touch with this family almost as though they were our own. Later this couple…
Read MoreThe Many Uses of Sacks
When I was growing up in the 1930’s and ’40’s sacks were very important. As Aunt Bill mentioned, sacks were used for quilt linings and sometimes tops as well. At our house we sewed four ( or maybe it was two) and a half fertilizer sacks together — using flatfeld seams — and this was…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles — Quilts
My we shore are havin’ a early winter and I jest got to thankin’ about how hit used to be in the winter time — trying to keep enough quilts on the bed to stay. There were’nt no heat in them old bedrooms and sometimes we’d have so many quilts on us that hit wuz…
Read MoreA Windy Knoll Report
This was a day I’ve been planning for the past three years — donating a quilt to the Depot Museum in Fort Payne (Alabama). About 20 years ago I visited a yard sale and found this quilt made of Hi-Jacs and, of course, bought it. As I remember it, I paid $15 for it and…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles — Hi-Jac Quilt
Hi-Jacs wuz made in Fort Payne, Alabama — at one time called “The Sock Capital of the World.” A Hi-Jac is (wuz) a little sleeve that could be slipped on the bottom of a 6 oz Coca Cola bottle and it kept the hands dry while the drink was enjoyed. Back then when ladies got…
Read MoreRemembering The Quilt Show on the Farm
What a wonderful experience — The Quilt Show on the Farm. For several years John and I hosted this show on behalf of the new Geraldine Public Library. Would you believe I cannot find pictures of this show, but they are here in this vast assortment of “stuff.” We had quilts hanging all through the…
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