Monday, June 27, 2016

American Patchwork and Quilting Podcast

I am privileged today to be interviewed by Pat Sloan on

American Patchwork and Quilting podcast.

Click on the above link and listed.

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Birthday Suppers-Friends-Quilts

We celebrated two birthdays recently.

Abe Rittenhouse's birthday.

Rebecca celebrated Abe's birthday by having his family,

Terry and I for a wonder supper.

Melissa celebrated Benjamin's birthday by having family and friends for supper. Benjamin (far left).

First cousins with their little ones.

Benjamin and Rowen Ryan and Sophie Mike and George

Autumn and Rebecca came home for the weekend.

I just love when my children come home.

Autumn and Rowen

As A Quilter

Susan (second from left) is a technical editor for C&T Publising from Idaho. She has edited all four of my quilt books. This past week I had the privilege of meeting her in person along with some of her friends. Thanks Susan for a wonderful time!

I spent the day with my mother and some of my sisters quilting. Polly is working on a quilt that will be in my new book. By the way the picture in the background Mother painted over 50 years ago.

Mother-Polly-Me-June

Could this picture be a quilt inspiration? At the Homestead in Hot Springs VA.

I confess, I made the quilt before I saw the Lattice.

Halfway done quilting my Zig and Zag quilt.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Planting Mums and Quilting

I had the privileged of taking a van load of old order Mennonites to help a family plant mums. I myself had never done this job before so it was a learning experience for me. We first dumped potting soil into a trough and added water then mixed the soil with our hands.

This is how the mum plugs come.

We filled the posts with the soil and planted one plug per pot.

Watered the plants.

We loaded the planted pots onto the truck. The children where a great help.

Then we placed them on black plastic that had a watering system. 650 mums latter.

Terry helped our son Ben (right) put a new roof on his house.

Abe and Rebecca (daughter) moved into a new
home which needed some painting.

All moved and settled into their new home.

Life as a Quilter
I just finished quilting this quilt "Through the Lattice" for my
new book that will be released the end of 2017. I tried a little something different for the border.

Mother and I went to the Valley Brethern-Mennonite
Heritage Center for a quilt turning. A quilt turning is a
stack of quilts laid out on a bed and then the lecturer
talks about each quilt. These were quilts from the Shenandoah Valley from Brethren and Mennonite background.