A quilting memory of my greatgrandmother and her sister
01-14-2010, 03:30 PM
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I enjoyed reading your memories. I don't have the memories of my ancestors doing quilting, but I do own 4 generations of quilts from my family. I love having them and often look at them and wonder just what was going on in their lives when they were sewing them. I have been doing genealogy for 30 years and know lots about these ladies.
01-14-2010, 03:49 PM
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My grandmothers both were wonderful seamstresses but did not quilt. One grandma made a crazy quilt and left it to me. I was the only GD on both sides of the family to do much sewing so I got a lot of things when they passed away but I also got a lot of one on one time with both grandmas that the other girls didn't get. That was the best part.
01-14-2010, 05:46 PM
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Thank you for sharing a wonderful story. As a child there were
hooks to hold a quilting frame in the ceiling of my g-parents home. I knew that I wanted quilting hooks in my home when I grew up. No I don't have hooks in my seiling but I do have quilts in the making now. My family says I have sewing stuff all over the house. Sewing gives me the connection to past generations, my g-daughter is learning to sew. Memories need to past on.
hooks to hold a quilting frame in the ceiling of my g-parents home. I knew that I wanted quilting hooks in my home when I grew up. No I don't have hooks in my seiling but I do have quilts in the making now. My family says I have sewing stuff all over the house. Sewing gives me the connection to past generations, my g-daughter is learning to sew. Memories need to past on.
01-14-2010, 05:49 PM
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My sister lives in okla, she is 78 years old and she has the quilter frame from the ceiling she wanted me to quilt last summer but it would have taken a lot of time i told her no call the quilting lady but we have a blast making the tops
01-14-2010, 07:53 PM
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What a neat story, thank-you for sharing! My Gram and a grand-aunt both make quilts. I'm 66 now but I can still see them in memory of years ago, sitting at auntie's kitchen table talking about blocks and colors, also about their embroidery. Sure makes me lonesome.
01-15-2010, 03:19 AM
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What wonderful memories! Thank you for sharing them. Brings back Memories of me as a child visting my Great Aunt. Aunty did not quilt but did a lot of cross stich and taught me. But she sure could cook. And tell all the family stories.
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