Excerpt from my Book “The Quilt Ladies”
Available on Kindle and in Print
“Life was just too hard to deal with and even harder at two in the morning. All I had were my own thoughts. A needle and thread made things just a little better.”
The Story continues:
Mary Alice returned with the coffee and found that
Helen had finished a total of three two patches. “Hope you don’t mind, but
these cookies looked good. Great for coffee dunking.”
Helen’s mind was working. Now her body needed a little help, too. As Helen had her coffee and three cookies, they talked. Mary Alice showed her how to unfold the sewn square and draw another ¼ inch line from the top on the wrong side of the fabric. (How to quilt)
“Take this piece and add to the back of it another one just like it, good fabric to good fabric. Place it seam to seam and stitch them together.” Mary Alice did one as Helen ate.
They talked and sewed all afternoon. Helen did not need to put the line on the fabric any more, and a rhythm had started with her stitches.
“There is no wrong way or right way of quilting, just your way.”
When they spread out their work, they had finished ten, four patch squares. Mary Alice showed Helen how she could put them together, one after another, or place a solid fabric in between. Helen’s eyes were dancing as she looked at her work. She had finished a row, putting one after another.
“I like to sit by a window with the sun light or a lamp, put my feet up and get comfortable for some serious sewing.”
Two quilts are featured in Book Two, RoadWay 94” x
110” is a quilt that Teresa made for her boys as a road to drive cars and
Square Doll Quilt 17” x 21” using small squares.
All 12 of The Quilt Ladies Stories in ONE place
and 15 Complete Quilt Patterns to MAKE
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