I am not a quilter, but I am the cause of quilting in other people!

Sounds amazing. I am getting back into quilting after about 20 years of not doing any. I just recently finished a "T-shirt" quilt for my 11 yo Grand daughter. It is made up of fronts of t=shirts that she has worn through the years that meant something to her. I have been "saving" themfor the last 4 years and finally just had enough to construct it. I have picture of it here. I am doing another like it for my 5 yo grand daughter. With her...being only five and collecting for 4..didn't have enough t-shirts so I got fabric of themes that meant something to her...Tinkerbelll, the five Disney princess. ANd still, needed 2 more so instead of just my "signature label" on the back, I printed out a special song we sang and made it a block and her cousin (11 yo) wrote something to her about things they have been doing and used those as blocks. Turned out great! The memories just make me want to cry! Funny how a t-shirt can create such emotion!!!! But I am trying to find a new quilt to start and want to do the piece work (my fav is applique blocks). I have a few sites I peruse and found a pattern for one with squares and rectanbles and triangles sewn together for a really nice grouping. My problem in crafts is matching colors. I just fight so hard to find the match! Takes me longer to design it than it does to sew it together! I dont know why, but in all the years and years of crafts and sewing, you'd think I'd have that mastered, but still....after 45 years of sewing..I still fight that problem! I have never had a friend that likes crafts as much as I do..not even in my family! And they dont' really like getting my crafts as gifts. They are great items, but for some reason, they just dont' like handmade stuff. Yours sounds awesome and I hope you post status and pics of it!

This reminds me of last Christmas. A friend of mine wanted to embroider pillow cases to give to a relative. So I let her borrow tons of books and she chose the simplest design of a flower possible. She repeated it across the case end and her sister loved it.

That's a good thing, isn't it? People are making quilts based on periods of history which is something that will keep that history alive. I love history, and I think that anything that keeps history alive is a good thing.

Quite often it does. When I go to my friends in Wisconsin there are tons of ideas that turn into major projects....but then again most of my friends are into crafts so we do share ideas. I think the quilt will be beautiful! I love the idea...especially the colors!

Well kinda sorta. I found a unusual pattern book for crochet and told my Aunt about it before I knew it I was scanning pages so I had patterns for her to do. She got really intrigued by the carrot scarf and has made a couple of them. Myself, I haven't made anything in the book yet. I like the stuff but what I like is complicated and so help me if I made the patterns I liked out of that book and the kids lost them, I'd loose it big time!