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My Grandmother Was a Quilt Maker

30 Friday Aug 2013

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Grammy

Grammy

My paternal grandmother was a quilt maker. She was Pennsylvania Dutch, and actually still spoke a bit of the language. Her maiden name was Amanda Roth and she married my father’s father, Oscar Kriebel.  The picture above was taken of her when she was 19 years old.  Everyone always says that I look a lot like her. I remember playing under the quilting frame in her apartment as a child. She made all kinds of quilts. She did a lot of cross stitch. She also did appliqué, and patchwork. She belonged to a group of women at church called the “Golden Agers” who got together to quilt at the church. You had to be 50 years or older to be a member, and as I recall those women seemed really old to me. Now I’m ten years older than the entrance requirement, and I don’t feel old at all.

While I didn’t make my first quilt until six years after my grandmother died, I have to give her credit for sparking my interest in the first place. Grammy used to quilt with a frame, and I couldn’t imagine doing it any other way until I came across a quilt on the cover of the February 1974 issue of Family Circle. I’ll show that magazine cover,and the quilt I made from the pattern, in a future post. But first I’ll be showing some of the quilts that Grammy made.  She made many, and I am lucky enough to have a few of them.

Here is a picture that shows Grammy and me at about the same age.  I am 17 in my high school graduation photo, just two years younger than Grammy in her photo.  Do you see the resemblance?

Grammy and Me

Grammy and Me

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I’m Feeling Hexy Today

23 Friday Aug 2013

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Actually, I’ve been feeling hexy every day for a couple of months now. What I mean by that is that I have a strong desire to work with hexagons. Not long ago I discovered English Paper Piecing, a technique for joining fabric pieces to make quilts and other fabric objects.

As I have explored EPP I have developed a great love for hand stitching, and have started to follow some of the blogs in the quilting community in general. After documenting my progress for awhile I’ve decided that I might have enough to share with others to join that community. So here I go… with my own domain no less.

It’s my intention to spend a few posts discussing my entry into the quilting world nearly forty years ago, and my re entry more recently. I’ll share photos of my grandmother’s quilts, my own from a previous era, and work in process from the past couple months.

It is my hope that I can connect with others in the community and make a consistent contribution myself.

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