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I was thrilled last week when one of my cousins who has been following the blog, Marianne, posted a photo to FB of a lace apron that she has in her possession: It was passed down to her from her mother Joanne who received it from her mother Mary. She believes it was made by […]

Pardon the pun, I couldn’t resist. I’ve been hand-sewing on the pineapple medallions that I crocheted. When I started thinking about the quilt for my great-grandmother Grace I asked for input from people from the family that had known her since she died before I was born. My cousin Joanne (Mary’s daughter) remembered her always […]

It’s been a productive if somewhat uneventful week. I finished the square for the dowry quilt from Grace’s quilt. The idea behind the dowry quilt is to take one extra square from each of the quilts and join them together to make a single “Sampler Quilt” that will form my Dowry Quilt.  Sampler quilts were […]

Really, I know how to count. I make a cheat sheet for each of the quilts at the start to help plan things out and to let me know how many of each shape/print/book page I need to cut out. The math is fairly straightforward: you take the number of a particular shape/print combo that […]