• Something Old, Something New

    April 16, 2007 – Next Saturday our grandson James is marrying his Patience. Of course I made him a wedding quilt. I’ve made one for each of my grandchildren. And each has been special, with something old (the tradition) and something new (the quilt).

  • Great-Grandma Kelley Quilts – Trey

    April 10, 2007 – My second great grandson loves the State Fair. The rides, the food, the animals, the lights, the excitement. This quilt is built from photographs of him at the fair. He watched each step as I assembled and sewed, offering opinions all along the way. When it was time to add the finishing touch, my signature, he announced that because it was his quilt, he would choose where I would put my name.

    To see Treys’s quilt and my other Great-Grandma Kelley Quilts click here.

  • Promise

    April 3, 2007 – Last week my crocus poked their heads up through the grey debris from winter. They were a wonderful promise of spring to come. Today the wind is blowing and the snow is falling like November. I feel betrayed. I think I will wait for the tulips. Perhaps I can trust them more.

  • Great-Grandma Kelley Quilts – Connor

    March 30, 2007 – I did not start my first great-grandson’s quilt until he was a year old. Why so long? Each one of these special quilts has the essence of the child as he has grown. I begin by savoring his or her uniqueness. It grows from there. When this one was done, my great-grandson stood in front of it and cried, It’s me! I had accompomplished my goal.

    To see Connor’s quilt and my other Great-Grandma Kelley Quilts click here.

  • Birthday Math

    March 27, 2007 – Next week the Minnesota Quilters Guild members will be celebrating their 30th birthday with a lovely, elegant, fattening cake at the monthly meeting. Coincidently, I have an 80th birthday in April. Someone commented that I must have been 50 at the guild’s inception. I don’t know about that. I only do quilting math these days. I stopped doing birthday math years ago.