Quilting poems and stories have great appeal.  Why not write some of your own?  Or share those you write?  I often work with youngsters in poetry writing.  We find the acrostic form frequently is easiest for them to start with. 
What about an Acrostic Quilting Poem?  This can rhyme, be unrhymed, tell a story, give random facts, relate a family’s quilting history. You can use a word, phrases or complete sentences.  That’s why they’re so much fun…you can set your own rules.
 Mine is sort of a random list of acrostic facts.  But it has me thinking about one that tells a story or …read more

          I discovered The Quilt of Life at Christian Crafter and have put it on my “must read” list.  This book, a patchwork of devotional thoughts, was written by by Mary Tatum .  Kristen, host at Christian Crafter, has quoted from this book, and Mary Tatum’s thoughts about quilting reflect the linking of the generations this craft can provide.
A quilt bridges the generation gap by connecting people from the past with people yet to come.  Perhaps that longing to participate in the future gives quilting its strong appeal. 
(Check out Kristen’s blog to learn more about Mary Tatum’s book and the …read more

Noreen at Hankering for Yarn tagged me for the 7 Random Facts Meme, in which I list seven facts about myself.  I also was tagged at my Home Biz Notes blog and have listed seven there.
So even though I’ve listed seven facts at Home Biz Notes, I’ll see what information I can provide here that may be somewhat different, yet randomly related to quilting.
1. I began sewing at an early age, first doll clothes by hand with my grandmother (Nanny) and then an apron on a treadle sewing machine under the guidance of my 4-H teacher (Aunt Mary).
2. My quiltmaking began …read more

Apparently quilting and cooking go hand in hand with many people.  I’ve begun to see more and more recipes in newsletters I receive via e-mail or check out on web sites.  Sometimes there will be a recipe in every issue.  With other newsletters, the recipe will appear occasionally.
As I’ve mentioned before, this idea must date back to the old time quilting bees when the ladies contributed food for lunch at their get togethers.  Then the menfolk, and sometimes children, too, joined them in the evening in the evening for a social affair.
As I think of quilting at my grandmother’s when I …read more

Some quilters like to know more about those in their past who influenced their quilting of the present.  As I research the story of my Trails End Quilters heritage http://trailsendquilters.blogspot.com ), I find I want to know more about those women who played a role in my past and who were quiltmakers, too.
I imagined that my great grandmother, Mary Barker Coon, must have been a quilter.  However, I didn’t know for sure.  Then I came across some of my grandfather, Burton B. Coon’s writings, which described his mother as a quilter and talked about the quilting bees the neighbor ladies …read more