Dear Meredith Schroeder:
Please tell everyone associated with The Quilt Life Magazine that I have enjoyed each and every issue. Endings are often sad, but endings also provide beginnings, so I wish all of you new and happy beginnings!
Sewing lap quilts for Mom helped when she could not be cared for at home. Lap quilts where she lived were large, catching in her wheelchair wheels, so I made smaller ones for her. As they use commercial laundry equipment with high temperatures, I pre-shrunk everything and used diaper flannel as batting. I used basic sewing skills and embellished them with embroidery and a few permanently tied bows. Mom may not have known who I was, but she knew family loved her, visited, made lap qults and clothing for her, sewed buttons on, mended her clothes, and when she said she missed a certain food, made it and brought it to her.
Grandmother’s church quilting circle disbanded before I was old enough to do more than crawl under quilting frames to retrieve needles, pins, and spools of thread. When a quilt top was ready for a new bride, the ladies hand quilted it in a day at homes of members who had quilting frames. They met later for half a day to bind the quilt. It was presented to the couple as a wedding gift from the church congregation. Grandma said this started during the depression, so no church member felt they hadn’t been able to provide toward a significant gift to the new couple.
Thank you for converting my subscription to lengthen my membership and subscription with American Quilter’s Society. I will enjoy it.
Thank you,
Barbara Braby
“We have truly enjoyed quilting, creating, imagining, and laughing along with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims over the past four years,” stated Meredith Schroeder, publisher of The Quilt Life. “We continue to value their friendship as we look toward the continued growth of AQS.”