The Generations Unite – The Story of the Quilters

May 4th, 2009
My Great-Grandma


Every quilt that I have seen that she has made has been either a double wedding ring or gloried nine-patch, so the gloried nine-patch blocks on the white side of the quilt are in her memory.


2nd Generation – My Grandma

This is the quilt that my Grandma made for me.

The green side of “The Generations Unite” has the same layout as this quilt.

3rd Generation – My Mom
When my mom passed away she had a few sets of embroidered blocks in her hope chest that she had completed. When I saw the set used in The Generations Unite I thought that I could make gloried nine-patch blocks and they would coordinate together.

My mom worked on these blocks while she waited for me at the orthodontist.

(I had my braces on for four years – she had plenty of time to complete them.)

My mom made this quilt top for Emily.

Quilting this quilt was one of the wedding preparations that we did before Emily and Ben’s wedding.

4th Generation – Me

I am a Hexamanic –
there had to be folded hexagons on this quilt to represent me.

The 5th Generation – my two daughters.

Jennie (left) & Emily (right)

Here is an Easy Pieces block quilt made by Emily in 2008.

Jennie discovered paper-piecing while working with me to make a quilt for her friend for

“Best Friend Day”.

Here is a close-up of the peacock that she paper-pieced for this quilt.

The 6th Generation – my granddaughters.

Christmas 2008 –

Prairie (left) and Autumn (right) wearing dresses that I made for

their mother and Aunt many years ago.

Autumn making her hand….

and foot prints.
(She was kind of bored with the whole process by the end – TV was much for interesting.)

Here we are getting Prairie’s foot prints (six days old).

When I did the foot prints and hand prints I was not sure of the layout, so I wanted to make sure that I had plenty. Needless to say, I have a few extras, but I have an idea of how to use them! But it will have to wait until after the big QQQ 50 1/2 Birthday Party.

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Donation Quilt #2 completed

April 30th, 2009
Yesterday morning I pulled out this donation quilt and quilted it up. I sewed the binding by machine, so everything finsihed up quite quickly. It was fun to do some random quiting.
If you remember, these are all the scraps leftover from my Free Quilt.

This one has a real WACKY back.
(When I was in Idaho I took a picture of the cow blanket- the beginning of all these wacky back! Next week I will have to post and write about it.)

Tommorow I hope to give a detailed entry of finishing and the story of the Generations Unite quilt.

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The QUILTING IS DONE!!!!

April 24th, 2009

Almost – that is. While the quilt was laying on my bed a found three places that I missed a few of the grid lines.

I don’t know if the circle is too puffy, or is it okay? If it does need more quilting, I am not exactl sure what I would put.

Two for the price of one (here is the other side of the quilt).

At 3:30 am this morning I decided to email the person that is over quilt registration for the quilt show and see if I could drop the quilt off to her house on Monday evening or Tuesday morning. If not, I would have to withdraw this quilt – there was no way I was going to be able to go get it comleted by Saturday afternoon.
At 6:30 am I had to get up to help Tom take our car that got the doors smashed in the car accident the day I left for Utah. When I got home the lady had not emailed me back so I thought that maybe I should go down and just start working to see if I could by chance still get it completed. But, GOOD NEWS – I can drop off the quilt at her home on Tuesday. I will need to take my other quilts on Saturday. I am off to take a nap before I go to the temple tonight.

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A little sewing last week!

April 22nd, 2009

When I was packing for my trip to Utah I did a much better job packing the things I would need for a couple of project that I wanted to work on than I did for clothing. Needless to say, my family out there probably got sick of seeing the same clothes all week long.

I debated about taking my thread box, but I decided to and it was a good thing I did.


I completed the applique on the flower blocks for the Graduation Quilt (AKA Cougar Quilt #2). You can read about why I am remaking this quilt here.

Here are the blocks that I did the thread work on when I was not playing Grandma!

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Batik Circle quilt

April 22nd, 2009

After completing the applique blocks I also had time to piece the blocks together for my Batik Circle quilt. I am so exctied to get quilting on this quilt and have it for our bedroom.

But, this week I am finishing the quilting on the Generations Unite. I have the blocks quilted and am now working on the grid (which I LOVE (not really)) lines! The clock is ticking (and loudly) because I have to drop the quilts that I entered into the Northern Star Quilters show off for juding on Saturday and it needs to be washed and blocked before then. Better get back to quilting. George is loving all the attention.

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Grandma Wrap-up

April 21st, 2009

I had a wonderful time in Utah last week! The kids were wonderful. This Grandma thinks it’s good that the younger people have the new babies because it is a lot of hard work – but LOTS of FUN!!!!!! Here are a bunch of pictures from the week’s activities.

We frosted sugar cookies that Emily had made before my arrival.

The scary pirate.

Take a nap (ha, ha, ha!)

What was I thinking when I bought these HUGH suckers?

Zephyr has two proud big sisters!

Lot’s of fun times!!!!!

Mommy and baby time!


One day Jennie and I took the girls to Jump On It!
We had a lot of fun, but my legs are way out of shape.

Relaxing after a workout at Jump on It!

The snowstorm on April 15!

On Saturday we met Jason, Christy and Ty at the park in Salt Lake City. Nice day, but a little windy.

Here are my four Grandchildren!

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I’m Leavin’ on a Jet Plane

April 12th, 2009
I am on my way to Utah for one week where I will be on full-time………..
GRANDMA DUTY!!!!!!!!!


Can you see the smile on my face?

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Queen of the FROG STITCH!!!!!!

April 9th, 2009
Last night I started quilting the glorified nine-patch blocks and I was not feeling as “in love” with these blocks as I was with my mother’s embroidery blocks. I didn’t really like the quilting designs but I didn’t have any other ideas so I just kept quilting the next block. Today I didn’t get a chance to do much quilting because I was trying to put away and sort through a bunch of the STUFF (and junk) that I took out of our bedroom and the guest bedroom. I was going to list (Craig’s List) the bookcase that my father had made for me many years ago, but then I just could not bear to part with it. So, I started to look around our house to see what changes I could make tomake room for the book case. I moved this table (that held the stero) and…………..

and put the book case where the table had been next to the fireplace. I think that we are going to take the recliner that we put in the sewing room up here. This one looks really worn and doesn’t look that great. Nice to sort through some of the junk, but nicer to be back down in my studio with George.Here is one of the blocks all quilted – not making my heart sing 🙁
Tonight before dinner Tom needed to make some copies to prepare for a meeting he has tonight. So I went down to say hi to George. I finished one of the embroidery blocks that I had started last night. Then I thought, this quilting is NOT doing it for me – I had better try something else.

This is what I tried, and I think I like it alot better. Definateatly defines the circle space better. and now the blocks stand out instead of being over shadowed by the quilting!

Here comes the FROG STITCHING QUEEN –

(Picture from www.magnetictimes.com)

rip-it, rip-it, rip-it.

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Update on the quilting

April 8th, 2009

I quilted the las embroidery block this morning. The more time I spend with this quilt the more I LOVE IT!!!!! It makes my heart sing!!!!! I was so excited about it that I decided that it needed a test drive on a bed. It is actually going in the guest bedroom). That bed had some stuff on it, so I opted to ues our bed as the model this morning. I think this quilt will look really nice in the guest bedroom with the sponged yellow walls.

I am really pleased with how the quilting is looking (on both sides).

I didn’t plan it this way, but all the embroidery blocks ended up on the had prints and blank blocks. The glorified nine-patch blocks are on the foot print blocks. Now that I think about that fact, it makes sense. Back to my love affair with this quilt (please don’t tell Tom).

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Bedroom remodel update

April 7th, 2009

I thought that I had a few more weeks before our love seat arrived, but they called and wanted to deliver it on Saturday. After I finish the Generations Unite quilt our quilt for our bedroom will be one of my next projects. So many projects and so little time. We put this recliner/love seat in our bedroom so now we have a comfy place to watch our new TV. Tom and I watched “Happy Feet” on Saturday night to try out our new set-up. It was very nice. Much better than our other set-up. I think we are going to really enjoy this.

Whilte at the QPN conference there is a member’s boutique on Saturday evening. Didi Salvatierra was selling her Fiber Arts. She had some bowls and things to hang on the walls. I really liked them, but the colors were not right for our bedroom. She let me special order one in the colors to match our bedroom. She looked at my blog and saw what I was planning on putting in my bedroom and she made this one. It arrived in the mail yesterday. I love it. Thanks Didi!!!!!!

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