[QUOTE=linda faye;6769233]I have always been in awe about our fore-mothers of past eras and the beautiful quilts that they made with oh so limited tools! The patience and talent are remarkable.
My grandmother who I never knew as she died before I was born, had eleven children, lived in a log cabin in the Ozarks of Missouri and made quilt after quilt by hand. How I will never know. Her 9th child, my mother, absolutely never quilted and told me nothing about her. Later after my mother's death I went to that area, snooped with relatives and have written my grandmother's story and saved one of her quilts. That was along time ago but I sew on a quilt almost every day BUT not by hand. I will soon be a great grandmother of 7 and will have my 88th birthday. I love my Bernina and my cutters. Lucky are we who quilt today!