All Quilts tell a story

I am a true believer that all quilts tell a story. I look at my quilts and know all the stories
surrounding them. Thinking of this I decided that I would go to my stack of finished quilts and without looking pull one out and see if I could remember its story. Well it is a recent quilt so I remember the story well!
It starts out like this, many moons ago I was fortunate to have been a stay at home mom. I spent most days the same, cleaning in the morning then doing some sewing. After lunch it was the little ones nap time and I would sit and enjoy the quiet and hand quilt. I originally started out with a hoop. One weekend I was at an auction when an old frame with the original rollers came up. I bought it for $25, took it home and set it up. It took up one whole end of the living room but no one complained. I enjoyed sitting at the frame every afternoon and getting my couple of hours of hand quilting in. After the kids were all in school I went back to work and I just didn’t have the time anymore to get any hand quilting done. My frame was pulled a part and put away. I started finishing small projects on my machine and the larger quilts were sent to my friend Carol who does excellent work on her longarm. A few years ago I went to a quilt retreat in January with my great traveling buddies. One of the girls (Roseanna) was hand quilting on her gorgeous Dear Jane quilt. She let me sit down and take a few stitches and I was hooked again. I knew that starting out with a large quilt was a bad idea. It would seem endless to me and I would never complete it. So I decided to make some smaller quilts and hand quilt them. This has worked wonderfully for me. I have completed quite a few. Lori Smith and Jo Morton have excellent little quilt patterns out that fit me to a T and I have been able to enjoy hand quilting again!