Our Joey dog was a very beautiful and loving family member. In our eyes he deserved to be featured in this magazine cover layout. A scrapbook is being planned to preserve and share some of our favourite photos and memories.
It has been a while since I have posted, as I have been busy being a grandma and quilting! We are very fortunate to have our daughter and our grandson staying with us for a couple of days. I have been working on a fish quilt for my Dad's bed, and my daughter has been hand quilting motifs on the Winnie the Pooh quilt. Our grandson is quite attracted to it, so she thinks she will have to hurry up and finish it, so he can use it.
This photo shows the quilted liner in place in the cradle. It is densely machine quilted using bubble quilting in a variety of shades of blue thread. The smaller photo shows a detail of the quilting. Click on it for a better look. 
This turkey red and cheddar mariner's compass is one of my mother's favourite quilts. Her mother machine pieced it on a treadle sewing machine. She hand quilted a daisy with 2 posies in the background corners surrounding the compass, using white quilting thread. The red border has the egg and dart motif quilted in it. The outside border has an undulating "U" shaped vine. This quilt has a very thin cotton batt with tiny brown seed flecks. The off-white cotton background fabric and backing is quite coarse in texture. In place of binding, the back is brought to the front and hand-stitched in place.
My mother does not consider herself to be a quilter, but in keeping with Waterloo County tradition, she made tops for my three sisters and I, and had them hand quilted as wedding gifts. Mine was actually begun in the 1940's, prior to her own wedding, and patterned after a favourite quilt made by her mother. She set it aside carefully in her hope chest while becoming a farm wife, raising children, sewing clothing, gardening, canning, church and community service, and other interests and commitments occupied her time. When I became engaged in 1970, the project was retrieved and completed, and my husband and I were the fortunate recipients of a very beautiful and special quilt. Recently, Mom gave me the original tissue paper templates she had traced from Grandma's quilt and some fabric scraps she had saved.
by my paternal grandmother, and although not conclusively documented, we believe it to be her first quilt, begun as a young girl learning to stitch penny squares. This quilt currently resides in my cousin's home in Lancaster County, PA, but I have many memories of it gracing a guest bed in my grandfather's home. A few years ago, I traced all the blocks from the original quilt, and now I take squares along with me in my busy bag, to stitch on in odd moments. While growing up, a lovely 1940's Little Dutch Girl quilt, made by Grandma Olive's hands, kept me warm and cosy. In later years I have often taken it with me as a comfort from home when I had to be away from my family for a period of time. Dad often tells about playing under the quilting frame when the ladies came to help Grandma quilt. He takes an interest in my latest projects, and when he recently moved to a long term care residence, one of his first requests was for a wall hanging for his room. He also has a log cabin lap quilt which he uses in his recliner and on his bed.
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