Any Day Spent Quilting Is a Good Day!

“Any day spent quilting is a good day!”

With teaching during the day at school, there are few hours left in the evening to enjoy my craft of handmade baby quilts. Yet I know what all quilters know and that is that any day spent quilting on my baby quilts is a good day. The time spent with needle and thread is more than often done in the solitude of my sewing room, when the peace and quiet after the busy day is a welcome relief.

Hand quilting on my baby quilts is a decorative form of sewing, a simple technique, that

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Family Is SEW Important

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu

How true these words and how wonderful. I watched my husband and his 9 siblings laugh, smile, and enjoy being together as a family this weekend. They range in age from 47 to 65 and haven’t been together as a family unit in three years.

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Grandmothers and the Baby Quilt

If I could change the world:

Cuddle would be a term reserved not just for the very young, but those of all ages.

To have a very special someone take time and put their arms around you makes the wrongs and hardships of the world go away. That is what our mothers and grandmothers do when they cuddle us in their arms. Those protective hugs make the night seem less scary, the fear of the dark turn into light of day, and the spooky figures in our closets become nothing more than real-life lessons to be dealt with each day. To hold and be held, to cuddle and be cuddled, and to be that person, who changes the world, we call them a Grandmother.

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Pretty in Pink Handmade Baby Quilt

Standing in front of the mirror in the morning preparing for my classes at school was the inspiration for this baby quilt, “Pretty in Pink.” I pick up one outfit after another and trying to decide the perfect color combination that is just right for the school day.

To be honest, pink is just not my color. But to a new little lady in your life, she will be SEW “Pretty in Pink.” There were some brilliant shades of pinks in my stash, just waiting for the right baby quilt. Here right in front of my mirror, they were discovered, like a new star on the stage.

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Speaking the Language of Quilting

As a new school year is about to begin, I am preparing my classroom for my 38th year as a classroom teacher. Teaching our young men and women has been, next to raising my own family, the most rewarding experience of my life.

Many of our students come into the classroom today speaking languages that are not only different than English, but though beautiful to hear cause the child great hardships in classroom. Each needs to learn the basics of the language before the content can be mastered.

The same would be reflected in the quilter’s world. If you come to the world of quilting as a sewer, many of the following terms will sounds familiar. Sewing is not the basic class for quilting, so the following definitions will make it easier to understand the world of the quilter and the language that they speak.

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From My Hands — To Your Heart

“From my hands — to your heart!”

How perfect when designing quilts for babies. When I found this quote, I thought of all the little ones that would snuggle in my handmade quilts on those cold winter nights or could play on the homemade quilt instead of the bare floor.

I set to work making each of my baby

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The Best Things In Life Are Quilted

“The best things in life are quilted.”

Over the weekend I spent countless hours quilting, my passion, or blogging on many of the wonderful quilting sites on the Internet. Since quilting is a pastime that is done in solitude most of the time, taking time to observe the wonderful and beautiful artistic and colorful designs of those who have placed their work on the Internet for the world to see has been a marvelous outgoing experience.

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