Blogtober Fest Winners
We’ve reached the end of Blogtober Fest and I’ve heard from the Quilting and Patchwork winners with their addresses.  Thank you, everyone, for participating and leaving comments.  It was very enjoyable to read your comments and to know I’d inspired many of you as well as stimulating memories.
10/7 Giveaway – Carla is the winner and received a Huru Humi Gift Pack consisting or a Huru Humi, a t-shirt and stickers.  This is a product line that helps children develop communication, self-expression and social skills.
In mentioning quilting, Carla said, I have never owned a quilt.  I would love to.
10/10 …read more

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Tuesday, October 14, is the last day for the first Quilting & Patchwork Blogtober Fest giveaway.  If you haven’t left a comment, you’ll want to do so.
You have until Friday, October 17 to leave comments at the second Quilting & Patchwork Blogtober giveaway.
The time runs out on my other Lifestyles blog, One Book Two Book, Blogtober giveaway on October 17. 
There will be a second Blogtober Fest post at One Book Two Book on October 15.
Have I made this confusing?  I hope not!  Enter the Blogtober Fest giveaways.
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Quilting Bee - A gathering generally of women and girls to sew a quilt together.  Most often, they stretched the quilt on a frame, then each person helped stitch together the top, filling and backing of a quilt with tiny stitches. 
These were social times in pioneer days, often the main occasions ladies got together.  In addition to quilting the bed covering, they might stitch pieces together, produce a “round robin” project, sew a friendship quilt or create some other fabric artistry. 
My grandfather, in his memoir,  wrote about his mother, my great grandmother, attending quilting bees at her neighbors’ homes.  I recall helping my grandmother, aunt …read more

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From one of the comments to the Blogtober Fest post, I realized I very seldom discuss  the role men may take in making quilts.  Some quilters do have a heritage of Grandpa making quilts or being involved in some way.
Aimee said:
My grandfather has made a quilt for each of us 10 grandchildren. He does the embroidery for blocks and then has someone else help quilt and piece. I will always treasure my quilt and have a wonderful story about the man who made it.
(Do write your down memories about Grandfather making quilts.  Perhaps pictures of each, if you can get …read more

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Thanks everyone who has left comments for the Blogtober Fest secret prize giveaway at Quilting and Patchwork.  I especially enjoy the memories you’ve been sharing about quilts in your family and those you’re making.
I do hope each of you starts a quilt memory journal about your quilting heritage and quilts you’re currently making.
You can leave a comment (one per e-mail address) to enter the giveaway until  midnight, Tuesday, October 14.  The winner and prize will be announced after that.
Also, check out Quilting and Patchwork on Friday, October 10.  There will be another giveaway post on that day.  You can leave …read more

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(I often encourage quilters to write their quilting memories, in a journal, in a scrapbook, in a blog, in a quilt log.  Although I’ve written quilting memories, I’ve never set them down in any detail. If I start a journal here, I can share them with my readers, too.)
I was thrilled when I discovered my mother had saved the quilt that once covered my bed when I was a child and teenager.  I thought it was too worn to save and didn’t consider it worth taking with me when I married and left home.
However, when I had to clean the old farmhouse …read more