The Quilts of 2020

(Spoiler Alert: if you are one of my family members, you might be mentioned and you may not know what I'm doing for you. But if I die you'll know there is something for you at my house!) Reading through my grandmother's journals always amazed me. She would write "didn't do much of nothing today" …

I have Grandchildren!

Ok, I'm pretty sure most of the people that follow this blog know that by now. If not, it's something new for me. Amelia is 9 months old and Barrett is 2 months old. Let's not even talk about how tired or old I look in that picture, but only focus on how grateful I …

The Old Quilts

As I was adding labels to some old quilts recently, it gave me an opportunity to look at them again up close. I forget sometimes how my ancestors had to struggle to make coverings for there loved ones, how they had to use every scrap of fabric they could find just to keep them warm. …

Not all Slaves were Black

I spent the better part of March and April watching the news, being made afraid to leave my home or hug my father, and after 2 months, I stopped watching the news...but the fear had already been seeded in my mind and took root. Even now, I pull back from people, don't shake their hands, …

A Labor of Love

Yesterday, I was listening to random selections of songs on my phone while I was on my way to drop some things off at my daughter's house (you know, the daughter becoming a mother this week!). A Christmas song played and it floored me, "Labor of Love" by Andrew Peterson. The song is about Mary …

The Waiting

Easter came and went this year, different than ever before. Churches were empty, no sunrise service on the hill with our community. Nothing, just another quiet day at the house and I think it rained, again. I'm a little weird, or rebellious, but when everyone was getting on-line for their Easter church service, I kept …

The Slowing Down

Since February, I feel like I've been disconnected from the world around me. Early in February, I was in the hospital with kidney stones that went sepsis. I was laid up for about 2 weeks healing from that and then getting the kidney stones removed. In the midst of that recovery, I was hit with …

Jumping on the Bandwagon

I shared this on my Facebook page, but decided to come back and add some instructions for a non-filtered, cloth face mask that I came up with. The basic measurements and instructions seem to be floating around the internet for all to see, but I changed mine up and liked the outcome. First....this is non-filtered. …

Another Year

I decided yesterday to take today off so that Ken could take me out to lunch for my birthday. I turned my 4:45am alarm off and let the dog sleep outside so that I could sleep late this morning. So of course, I've been awake since 2am. I've been chronicling my quilting journey, trying to …

Deborah & the Tree

Mom said that she had planned on calling me Debbie but when the nurse came with the birth certificate, she was told she couldn't use a nickname, so I was named Deborah....like the woman in the bible. I never was called Debbie, except by other people that didn't really know me. I was introduced this …