When they say thank you for the quilt!

     I  have made peace with the fact that not everybody appreciates or even really like quilts.  I know we have all put a lot of love and work into a quilt to be gifted and never really got a "'thank you", and often wondered if the quilt was ever used.  In fact I have given quilts that I'm pretty sure are still folded up on a shelf in a closet.  AND THAT'S OK!  Many people don't realize how much goes into making a quilt.  And a gift should be given with no strings attached and that's what I do.

     But......... I really love when my quilts are well loved!  It makes my heart so happy!

     Recently, my daughter sent me the following message:

Lori:  Mama the rainbow quilt 🌈you made me for my 40th birthday.  I love it.  I was looking at it tonight and its so pretty.  I know I already told you that, but just wanted you to EXTRA KNOW IT.  😍The colors are so pretty.

Me:  Thank you honey.  That makes me feel good. ❤

     I love the part where she said , "just want you to EXTRA KNOW IT."

     The quilt she was referring to was the Rainbow Double Irish Chain Quilt that I posted HERE and HERE .......  almost 4 years ago.

     Now, that my friend makes it worth all the work!

I still love Quilting!

Here sits my main current quilt project, at the bottom of a pile, in the corner of the sewing room.   There's not much left to do until I can call it a finish!  I need to get my focus back on this quilt and finish it and I'm going to get it back out and set it up for the remainder of the machine quilting

Here's the top from a post about 2 and 1/2 years ago. I plan to post some progress on this quilt soon!   I started on it a looooong time ago.  It is the road trip quilt along quilt that I have posted the progress of many times.

Even if I'm not actively quilting, I never get too far away from my love of quilting, even just driving down the road.  Here are a few barn quilts I got a picture of this past weekend while in the mountains of North Carolina.

I really love barn quilts.  I saw lots more, but its hard to get a picture when you are riding down a very curvy road with a steep drop off on the side and you don't know that a barn quilt is coming into your view until its too late.

Have a blessed day!

Thank You Ms. Georgia Bonesteel!

Recently I did an internet search to see if Georgia Bonesteel had a website or blog and discovered that she has a blog HERE. I left a couple of comments and I was so thrilled to receive a personal email from Ms. Georgia Bonesteel and even more thrilled to receive this signed copy of her latest book in the mail.



If you aren't familiar with Ms. Bonesteel, she is a well known quilting author and teacher. She is the inspiration that got me started in quilting and I still to this day go back to her original 1980s book, "Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel" when working on quilts. She is also famous for her many quilting shows shown on PBS.

So, thank you Ms. Bonesteel for this great book and for all the inspiration you have given me over the years!

Want more quilting inspiration? Check out Quilters TV!

I have started a small library of quilting and sewing books,




collect quilting magazines that I can't part with,




Checked out about all the quilting books from my local library and the county branches.... some of them twice.... and

Have read so many quilting blogs, I'm getting cross-eyed...

But, I still want more inspiration, so I found QUILTER'S TV!!! Remember when quilting shows were on tv on channels like HGTV? Well now you can see lots of quilting shows on your computer. Check it out! You can watch the current show that comes up or if you look in the right hand corner, you will see lots of other choices of videos you can watch when ever you want.