Showing posts with label memory quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memory quilt. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 July 2018

sew in love

Dear Sheddists,

I know many of you reading this blog will either have received or been a member of a family that has received one of my dear wife's amazing quilts.

Quilting has been part of her life for so many years.  Indeed, when a significant birthday milestone was reached a few years ago, we celebrated by visiting the Amish community in Pennsylvania, famed the world over for their fantastic quilting skills.

Click on this link for a short piece I wrote at the time.  It describes an enthralling Amish Quilt Auction held annually in Strasburg, Pennsylvania to raise funds for their local fire-station.  Needless to say, my wife contributed one of the quilts for sale.

Her charitable activity on the quilting front doesn't stop there. She's a volunteer with Project Linus UK a charity that provides home-made quilts and knitted blankets to comfort sick and traumatised babies, children and teenagers.

So what do we find here, hanging on our familial washing line. No, it's not a collection of exotic lingerie, perish the thought, it's my Christmas present to my dear wife.  A patchwork quilt kit she will be putting together over the next few months.  

I hope to bring you up-dates as the quilt progresses but in the meantime I would like to dedicate this post to my wife, a fantastic lady with whom I very much remain 'sew in love'!

Yours as ever,

electrofried(mr)

















Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Quilted memories

Here's someone who just loves his new quilt! Clever Nanny made it for him from his old, outgrown outfits. They're sewn together in love and they tell a story of this little man's short life to date.

How good it is to see him smile!