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When you restore family quilts, you’re restoring memories, too.  I recall sitting at Nanny’s side when I was about eight-years old, selecting fabrics, cutting them, and then hand stitching the blocks together.  While we worked in the farmhouse kitchen, Auntie bustled around with housework and cooking.  Ah! What delicious aromas came from her many dishes simmering or baking.

Do you have quilting memories?

Susan Lazear shares her memories of quilting with her grandmother in Repairing Family Heirlooms. She also shows photos of one of her grandmother’s quilts she and her mother have repaired.

Also, if you’re at a loss about repairing an heirloom quilt, Susan describes and shows in pictures how she and her mother did this one.  It may help give you some ideas and get you started.

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Restoring Family Quilts & Memories

This was considered an appropriate policy, especially since students as young as fourth grade wanted to check out these books.  This gave the parents input into their children’s reading selections.

This raises some interesting questions:

Do you think a school should limit a student’s reading material unless he/she has parental approval?

Do you like the fact that a school will check with a parent first?

Do you think the school or librarian should simply let children of any age read whatever books are in the library?

As a mother and grandmother, I like the idea that I’d be consulted and give input into my child’s reading matter.  What do you think?

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Should School Libraries Monitor Kids’Books?

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My fond memories:

• Learning to make a quilt for my bed with my grandmother
• Writing letters with her.
• Sewing clothes for my dolls with Nanny
• Baking bread with Nanny and my aunt
• Doing spool weaving

Crafts with my grandchildren that I hope create memories:

• Scrapbooking
• Cooking
• Coloring Easter eggs
• Quilting with my granddaughter
• Making collages with mixed media

What are your crafting memories with your grandparents or as a grandparent?

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Grandparents, Memories & Crafts

Every once in a while some of these grandchildren and great-grandchildren would visit the old lady and marvel at the yumminess of all the food. Plate upon plate of sugared squash, cornbread and biscuits both at meals, sausage gravy, black-eyed peas, home-made jams and jelly’s and relishes, sliced roast beef, fruit salad with walnuts, canteloupe and fruit dip, and Blue Bell ice cream and two home-made pies. That’s just lunch.

Before the dishwasher was fully loaded and the lunch table wiped down, the old woman began opening cans and packages and got out her handy mixer.

Are you already cooking for dinner? One of the grandchildren asked, incredulous.

Well, of course I am! Exclaimed the grandmother.

Well, all those dishes are enough to make me scream anyway.

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Friday the 13th Horror Story