National Quilting Month

I know, March is almost half over and I’m just now realizing it is National Quilting Month! And, this Saturday (3/18/2017) is National Quilting Day!

Maybe I can find a bit of time to work on a quilt! I haven’t had the opportunity in a couple of months and I’m struggling with sewing/quilting withdrawals! But, all for good reasons…

 Anyway, a day late and a dollar short, I discovered this morning Missouri Star Quilt Co. was hosting a contest (deadline was YESTERDAY!) for your quilting story. Maybe next year…

While searching around the Internet this morning, I discovered The Kentucky Quilt Project ~

Why Quilts Matter

[You can see snippets of their series on YouTube, and follow their link to purchase the complete set.] 

For the time being I plan,
dream,
and wait
until I get back to sewing/quilting!

Happy National Quilting Month!

National Quilting Day

The entire month of March is National Quilting Month, but today is the day! According to the National Quilting Association, the first National Quilting Day was observed in 1992. Now it’s a global celebration!

NOTE TO SELF: It is always the third Saturday in March.

Maybe next year, I’ll not be under the gun in organizing, creating, encouraging others to help, in getting 30 quilts finished to honor our local Veterans! Hopefully next year, I am able to organize a local public celebration of quilt making! I will, however, celebrate today through service by finishing quilting a top, and hopefully load another one on the longarm frame.

Thanks to the National Quilting Association, they offer a variety of ideas, of ways to celebrate National Quilting Day. Here are a few I will certainly keep in mind while planning next year’s celebration!

1. Make it a service day – maybe schedule a local sew-in on 3/19/2016
2. Organize an exhibit at the library – invite folks to share their quilts! I would love to share the one my maternal grandmother made me over 45 years ago!
3.  Start a “quilt documentation” project! I’d never heard of this until today! I did a google and found a site “Texas Quilt Search Project” and will check into it further, later! Wouldn’t it be fun to do a local project and produce something like those local recipe books but have it about Quilts! Just thinking out loud here!
4. Organize several of my fellow quilters to each demonstrate a quilt block technique to a group, set up at various locations, where ever they may be!
5. Oh, I like this idea… contact a hospital (before hand) and donate a quilt to the first baby born on National Quilting Day!

So many other great suggestions… 

I agree with what they wrote in the article: 

The possibilities for National Quilting Day

are limited only by your time and energy!

What are your suggestions on how to celebrate next year?

"The Quilt Lady"

Someone I’d never met before gave me one of the nicest compliments I’ve heard in a long time! Before a meeting, we were sitting around a table introducing ourselves, and when I said my name to a lady, she immediately said, “Oh! You’re the Quilt Lady!”

I must say, it took me by surprise! What a nice way to be known!

With the arrival of March yesterday, this Quilt Lady is celebrating National Quilting Month!

For me, I celebrate quilting every day, every month, every minute I possibly can! Quilts bring back many fond memories. I remember sleeping underneath a pile of quilts (long before electric blankets or electric mattress pads came along in my parent’s or my grandparent’s home). I remember spreading a quilt out, for a wine and cheese picnic next to Turtle Creek when my husband and I first began dating. Now, a quilt always covers me while curled up in my chair reading a good book.

Why do quilts matter?

It’s a transformation process filled with prayerful love that is hard to explain. Those that create quilts will understand this. Those covered with a quilt will feel the warmth, literally and figuratively.

Quilts matter.

I am blessed to be known as “The Quilt Lady”.

I am blessed my Mother taught me how to sew.

I am blessed now I can give back...