I've been thinking about my quilting days. Instead of aging with things I do, like, taking up quilting as I kept getting older, I've been doing things backwards! lol
What I mean by that is this.. We older people seem to take up quilting in our Senior years while thinking back to what we used to do before quilting. I, on the other hand, was quilting long ago but stopped when I started playing with computers and then started gaming. Now I think back to when I 'used' to quilt!!
Of course, when I started out on a computer I was just chatting with a few friends and once in awhile posting a picture or two. I was playing games privately but people kept at me to record my games until I finally gave in, and the rest is history there. I had laid my quilting aside and haven't quilted since!
I thought that as I aged I'd pick the quilting up again, but it seems like that's not going to happen!! So in this short Blog I'll look back upon my quilting days.
I have kept two or three quilts of mine for my own bed, but all my grandkids got a quilt and all my sons, I think.
Here's two I kept:
I also had a quilt left to me by my grandmother which she hand quilted back in the 30's (I was born in "36) and she gave it to my mother to keep for me about that time. So, it eventually got really old. As it aged it started coming apart as the threads 'rotted'. I had passed on that quilt to one of my daughter-in-laws before that started to happen. So she cut it into the best kept squares and framed them. She wrote information about the quilt and attached that on the back of each frame. I had given her a package of old, old needles and an old, old spool of thread. She threaded the needles and made a stitch on each square, sort of letting the thread swirl down a couple of inches. She then kept one, gave each of my other sons one, and gave me one. Now they all have something from their great-grandma. If I ever find a picture of that I might show it to you later on.
I started designing my own quilts after the first one or two which I made. It was more fun to dream up my own. By the time I quit quilting I had drawn up a lot of squares for lots of quilts that I wanted to make, and had made some of the squares. When I started on my computer I gave all of those quilts and squares away for anyone who wanted to make a quilt with them, or an art piece for a wall. Actually I took all that to a quilting craft show and left them with all the stuff people could take or buy! They were all snapped up!! Here are just a few of the tops and squares I took there:
I taught one of my granddaughters how to quilt and she designed her own and finished it and put it on her bed. I was shocked because she was only about 12 or 14 and I showed her very little! She just "took off" with it! Like she had already known how! lol
