To be honest, I've debated on sharing my thoughts on the blog...yet...about what I'm doing. I would rather share after I've done it and was successful. Instead, here I am sharing now, at the beginning, praying the outcome is successful and not another failure. It won't happen overnight, or next week, maybe by next month …
Be Respectful
Yesterday, in a Facebook group for beginner quilters, learning the "quilt as you go" method, someone started a discussion that basically put down anyone that wasn't quilting the "proper" way, or learning from a seasoned quilter, but using YouTube as their teacher and just "quilting however you pleased". This started a "debate" about what was …
Grannie’s Diaries
Certain imagines will always remain with me of my grandmothers. Grannie Lewis sat in the curved rocking chair (now in my living room) surrounded by her bible study material and her phone. Grannie Carathers was either at her quilting frame or on the couch, surrounded by her piecing projects. Beside the couch, in the corner …
“I Want to Make a Quilt”
When a 12 year old looks up from her hand-held game and says "I want to make a quilt", you might get a little excited. And if she asks if you have any books on how to draw, you might run to the bookstore and get her such a book and some new pencils. I …
“Learning”
As I was finishing up the 2020 quilts, I began to realize something that bothered me. I didn't know what my style was (I may have mentioned that in a previous post...I can't remember). My fabric stash grew considerably after Mom and Grannie died. I can tell you plainly what their styles were, what colors …
Family Lore
Last weekend a friend and distant relative, contacted me about our family connections (that was discovered after we were on-line friends through a blog we both wrote for). Anyway, here I am at 4am, thinking about that family line, searching for a letter, a name, and a story. Berry Family Line My great-grandmother was Jennie …
The Books and the Lists
Someone recently nudged me to remember that I have a blog and they had not received a notification about a new post in a while. It's not been that long...a little over a month! So, I thought about what I could write that would be of interest to anyone....but truthfully...my mind was blank. I flipped …
Well Worn
From where I stood, I could see his bible. He was "reading" from a familiar passage, yet as he "read", he was still flipping pages to get to the actual location in the bible. Psalm 23 As he recited the passage, word for word, I started doing the same, probably as many others did. The …
His Namesake
Others may have been named after him, but I believe I'm the only one that took the spelling of his name. My uncle, Elmer Eugene Carathers. My mother named me after her brother and I became Deborah Gene. I don't recall him ever calling me just Deborah, he always tagged that middle name on when …
Gamaliel’s of Today
Jesus was The Teacher, but Gamaliel was a teacher. I used to be a teacher, maybe I still am in this format. It's a heavy responsibility to answer the calling to be a spiritual teacher, wither in a formal setting like a Sunday School class room or here on the web and a blank page. …
