oldbalt99

Each year my mom sewed two sets of clothes for her eight children. Five sets play clothes, school clothes for winter and summer. She had enough material to make a new set on demand. One day At Thirteen I decided to do something with the smaller strips that would never make a set of clothes. And my very first scrap quilt was started. Seeing I was serious about finishing something, my mom taught me how to start and finish a stitch without a knot. She taught me how to use a sewing machine when I was five, and which included color matching, material care and the evils of a tracing wheel. Still when I started putting those scraps together she to straight of grain and scraps. When the top was finished, she gave me a history lessons on quilts and added that when her mother put her quilts together she used ties, or knots, as she names them. I loved my grandmother so I specialize in tied quilts.
I hope I did this right here are two pictures of quilts and they are both tied.