Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - Quilting ~ I Remember Laura Blog-a-Thon

Week one will be featuring quilts or quilting. Laura and her sister Mary were started in the needle arts at very young ages and were required to work on quilt squares, working them into the nine patch pattern. Using Mr. Linky you can share your quilts or quilt related items and tell your quilt stories. Do you or someone in your family quilt? Perhaps your quilt is not hand made but special none-the-less, share it with us! I sometimes struggle with the blog-a-thon posts.  I have still four children at home, so not able to do what perhaps others my age do at this time in life.  However, I did find some things to post about quilting.  To start with I have a vague memory of visiting my school friend when I was 13.  The farm house had a large lounge with a corner that my friend could sew in while the parents enjoyed the TV and the open fireplace and old fashioned clock on the mantle.  There were pieces of cardboard involved.  Which brings me to a related subject.  My favourite quilt is Grandmother's Garden. On to when I was 21 when we were married my husband's sister gave us a quilt rack made of Jarrah.  I didn't know it was a quilt rack until many years later until my Mum mentioned it to me.  We were discussing styling our first house for sale.  Jarrah is a special Australian wood. I have enjoyed quilting novels in the past year like The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini and the Benni Harper mysteries by Earlene Fowler. Also the Daughters of Lancaster County by Wanda Brunstetter.  I seem to think the least scary of these was The Quilter's Apprentice even though it wasn't a Christian book, though I could be wrong as it read it first.  There are some Australian quilts called Wagga quilts. One of the reasons I had difficulty with this post as I have been trying to find quickly (which doesn't usually work does it?) references to sewing and in particular quilting in the books by Maria Wilkes and Celia Wilkins about Laura's mother Caroline.  I remember Caroline doing a sampler, but seem to also think there was a part where she was given buttons or material squares for a gift.  Maybe someone else remembers more detail.  My Mum made three blankets, one a basic quilt, but the other two backed embroidered cot blanket like this for my daughters when they were babies.   My eldest daughter was fond of  Raggedy Ann, so my Mum encouraged me to buy a similar sized quilt from the craft shop, a homemade Raggedy Ann quilt.  Please check Quill Cottage for more about quilts.

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Monday, June 9, 2008 - Quilts

Posted by Anonymous

Thank you so much for sharing your quilted memories and the links. I too love the garden pattern you linked to. I enjoyed your post, thank you for joining the blog-a-thon. Blessings, Miss Sandy

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