My Grandmother was my inspiration...She always had a quilt project to work on...Everything was done by hand...I made my first quilt when I was 9 years old...I still have that quilt..It is made of squares from all the clothes making that she did..I can still pick out the ones made from my skirts and dresses..Her favorite pattern was small diamond shapes...I often wonder what she would think of all of the modern day tools and notions...
When she quilted , she would hang the frame from the ceiling in the living room ,which was very small..We barely had room to get around ...But she only did quilting in the winter time when there was no garden to tend to...She did the piecing all year long..Her hands were always busy..She always said that "idle hands were the devils workshop..." I guess thats why I always like to have handwork around when I am watching tv....