Category: Patchwork
Underground Railroad
Oberlin, Ohio has a wonderful museum highlighting the Underground Railroad. The city was an important stopping point for slaves journeying to freedom. Isn’t it ironic then that two summers ago, my granddaughter, a beautiful then-12-year-old Haitian, while at a summer music camp in Oberlin, experienced racial slurs when the campers attended a concert there? The voice […]
Looking for my Garden…
…in the Middle of Winter Looking for My Garden in the Middle of Winter was created at the end of March, 2014, when our very long, brutal winter refused to end. I needed something bright and cheery, with lots of color. The inspired fabric was full of bright pinks, salmon orange, green, and lots of flowers. My […]
Dignity Quilts
Dignity quilts were donated to a nursing home. They are used to drape the deceased resident as he/she is taken out of the home so the other residents don’t see the black body bag.
Yellow and Black
Between projects, I visited our fabric warehouse outlet store and discovered they’d just gotten a new shipment of batiks: all yellow and black. Although the combination of yellow and black is not what I was expecting, I was compelled to purchase several pieces. The new challenge was to make each block different and interesting, […]
Lowell’s Quilt
Prayer Quilt 4
The prayer quilts are given to people who are grieving, ill, or in nursing homes and hold the same comfort of prayer as prayer shawls. Prayers were made for the recipient while the quilt was being made, asking for comfort, peace and health of the recipient.
Prayer Quilt 3
The prayer quilts are given to people who are grieving, ill, or in nursing homes and hold the same comfort of prayer as prayer shawls. Prayers were made for the recipient while the quilt was being made, asking for comfort, peace and health of the recipient.
Prayer Quilt 2
The prayer quilts are given to people who are grieving, ill, or in nursing homes and hold the same comfort of prayer as prayer shawls. Prayers were made for the recipient while the quilt was being made, asking for comfort, peace and health of the recipient.
Prayer Quilt 1
The prayer quilts are given to people who are grieving, ill, or in nursing homes and hold the same comfort of prayer as prayer shawls. Prayers were made for the recipient while the quilt was being made, asking for comfort, peace and health of the recipient.