With the October round-up of my articles at Blisstree’s Arts and Crafts section, I shall be saying good-by. 
Some reorganizing is occurring at Blisstree, and the Arts and Crafts section will be discontinued, as far as new posts are concerned.  You should be able to find my previous posts if you’re interested in them.
It has been a great deal of fun sharing with you at b5, first in a Quilting and Patchwork blog, then through the Arts and Crafts section when Blisstree was formed.  I won’t be leaving Blisstree because I shall still be blogging at the Parenting section.  I also …read more

My granddaughter spread a large quilt on the deck the other evening and proceeded to re-tie it.  This quilt that I’d made for her great grandmother several years ago had come into her possession when Grandma GG went into an assisted living home.
Now Kara is going to college and wants to take GG’s quilt with her.  Many of the ties had come out so it needed re-tying.  As she tied, and then her mom joined her, I thought, “The legacy of quilting goes on in our family.”
Beth, when she was Kara’s age, had helped me tie the original quilt for GG.  …read more

My quilting heritage descends from the Trails End Quilters.  The ladies who lived at Trails End Farm were my ancestors.   My mother and aunt also grew up there.
I’ve been fortunate to have a cooking notebook that my aunt compiled.  In it she includes recipes from her grandmothers, her mother, other relatives, friends and neighbors.  It’s somewhat a cooking history of the ladies associated with Trails End.
 (Incidentally, it was called Trails End because….the farm was at the end of a dirt road or “the trails end.”)
Ah…to have the time to compile these recipes into a family cookbook, with photos and stories …read more

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 Memorial Day in my childhood meant traveling to Trails End Farm, where my mom grew up and her parents, sister, brother and his wife lived.  Sometimes the day was celebrated with many relatives gathering there. Or we might visit, about ten miles away, the “Barrytown Coons,” my grandfather’s cousins who lived in the village of Barrytown, NY, along the Hudson River.  (These families would alternate between the two farms for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.)
The food was delicious, the gathering of relatives fun, and the occasion something special in memory.  I’ve come across photos of the collection of the clan …read more

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Tales of the Trails End Quilters blog consists of stories about my quilting heritage. 

My quilting heritage began at Trails End Farm in Milan, New York. There I often sat beside my grandmother cutting squares and sewing them by hand. Eventually I realized that my mother and her sister, their grandmother, and others made quilts here, too. Now my daughter, granddaughter, and I carry on this Trails End quilting tradition from our New Hampshire home.

 I delve into the genrations of quiltmakers in my family, going back to my great grandmother.  I know she quilted and attended quilting bees at neighbors’ homes because …read more

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 As I read my grandfather’s writings, Fifty Years Ago, Rural Life from 1876, I was delighted to realize he had included information about his mother’s quilting at Trails End Farm, in Dutchess County, NY.  I know from this that my quilting heritage definitely traced back to my great grandmother, Mary Barker Coon.
 Papa Coon, as our family referred to Burton Barker Coon, writer and farmer, mentioned the women getting together for afternoon tea and cutting out pieces for quilt blocks. 
“They would take their sewing along and have a very pleasant time.  All the girls were brought up to piece quiltsk, bake …read more

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Quilters and fabric artists create memories…some of recent projects, others we made longer ago, and perhaps some connected with quilts stitched by former generations.  Do you write about your memories and events connected with them?
They can be recorded any number of ways:

Blogs
Journals
Scrapbooks
Videos or DVDs
Published materials

Quilts from my family heritage, as well as projects my daughter and granddaughter are undertaking today, I write about at Tales of the Trails End Quilters. Along with the quilting memories, I’m including bits about the quilters and the history of the Trails End Farm where my quilting heritage began. 
Blogging is just one way you can record your quilting and family memories. 
What …read more

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Cyndi at Layers Upon Layers and Noreen at Hankering for Yarn tagged me for the 7 Random Facts Meme that has been going around.  I participated in it previously, but there are always facts and ideas I can relate that you’ve not heard before.

I like old quilts and finding the stories connected to them.
My granddaughter is making a quilt for a school project using a Civil War theme with reproduction fabrics from that era.
My daughter had one of her fabric art pieces displayed at a gallery in Costa Rica.
I like to work on the smaller pieces since they’re easier to take with me …read more