Design Wall Monday 10/17/11

Shocking, that's what it is, mind boggling! Where does the time go? The third week of October and I’m just now checking in with my quilting friends. However, I’ve not been idle, well maybe on the quilting side it would appear so, but I’ve started out on a new adventure for an ‘older gal’. There is the most wonderful quilt shop, in my small town, QuiltingSisters, and I was invited to ‘hang around’ with them.  And guess what?  They want to pay me for it, can you believe it?!  Well, since I’m a quilt novice it didn’t make much since to me, kind of like asking me to work at the local auto shop and rebuild engines.  Patty, the store manager, said she liked getting to teach an old dog new tricks.  Really, those are my words, she would never say it that way, but I kind of figured that was what she was thinking. J  Check out the store link.  What a fun place.

Well, I have pulled out the Pineapple Quilt and decided to keep on keep’n on. 

But, it’s re-reading the book and starting all over again. Finished cutting the strips and now working on my accuracy sewing a ¼”seam.

I grew up watching Mom sew on an old Singer feather weight, which I’m blessed to now have. And sitting next to her was always her sewing cabinet which she got from her Mother.  Notice she had to put pull handles on the drawers so she could open them.  Her hands were so crippled and bound with Rheumatoid Arthritis but it never stopped her from sewing.  She was a remarkable lady and my inspiration.

When my Mother passed in June, she left me a little money so I decided to purchase a Horn 3180 sewing cabinet in her memory.

To Mom, 

Thank you so much.  God knows how much I miss you.