When I was a teenager, my paternal grandmother crafted a quilt for each of her grandchildren, with the help of her sister, Aunt Omi. She hung a large quilting frame from the ceiling in her cozy den area adjacent to her spacious kitchen. I fondly remember seeing them...
A sweet shell nativity crafted by our oldest granddaughter, Catie Byrd, a few years ago…about 2012, I think. She did a workshop for a group of us and we used it as a model and made about 30 of them. We sold a few of them. The rest were lost, it seems when the...
This past weekend I set out to start on a quilt. I had gone to a fabric store several weeks ago with a friend who quilts and crafts a lot and who had, incidentally, given me the pattern for this quilt. She helped me select the colors and cheered me on. I dutifully...
