Seeing Dots....

This was a nickle exchange with my quilt guild. A nickle being a 5 inch square of fabric. Everyone bought a yard of bright fabric and cut it into squares and then we traded. This is what I came up with to "spend my nickles."

To quilt it, I went around every single one of those little colored dots.... a pebble design... I was seeing dots every time I closed my eyes for a while.

This quilt was made by my Grandmother Ivie before she died in 1950 from old clothes!

My sister asked me if I had any idea how many quilts I'd made since I got started in 1972, which is when I got married. I took pictures of a lot of the quilts I'd made and put them together in a book with as much info about them as I could remember. This was the first picture and that was the first line.... So, not sure how good my documentation is.... well, I am sure and I'm just a little worried.

I've made over 50 pieced quilts of all different sizes, all hand quilted. I would put one on the quilt frames and then it would take all winter to quilt. My mom, bless her heart helped a lot. Sewing and sitting still are just not her thing. She'd rather build something.

I think that's why I've gone crazy making so many quilts since I decided it was ok to quilt with a long arm machine.... you can get a WHOLE bunch done and you don't have to wait for winter.

And I don't have to use old clothes! Apparently, that's deadly.