So why do I quilt?
College and quilting are totally linked together. On a tour of colleges through Pennsylvania my Mom and I drove by a house in the country with had a little sign "Quilts for Sale" on the front lawn. Very uncharacteristically, we stopped and knocked on the front door. 2 Mennonite sisters had a trunk full of quilts. They were all the same appliqued flower pattern done in a variety of colors. I fell in love with a red and green quilt. Mom hemmed and hawed but finally said yes, we could buy it. It cost $55. As the years went by, Mom often said she wished she purchased more than one!
This quilt is still a beauty!
My classmates at college were from small towns and farms in Minnesota and North and South Dakota. They all had homemade quilts on their beds. I was from the East Coast...no quilt. That required remediation and so began my quilting education!
College and quilting are totally linked together. On a tour of colleges through Pennsylvania my Mom and I drove by a house in the country with had a little sign "Quilts for Sale" on the front lawn. Very uncharacteristically, we stopped and knocked on the front door. 2 Mennonite sisters had a trunk full of quilts. They were all the same appliqued flower pattern done in a variety of colors. I fell in love with a red and green quilt. Mom hemmed and hawed but finally said yes, we could buy it. It cost $55. As the years went by, Mom often said she wished she purchased more than one!
This quilt is still a beauty!
It stayed at home when I headed off to college in Minnesota.