Created 2008
Created 2008
Created 2008
Shelby is a sweet girl that recently lost her Daddy in a car accident. Hopefully she will find some comfort in wrapping up in her quilt with pictures of her Daddy and family. (Story below)
Created 2008
At the time I finished Judy's quilt, Scott was the chairman of the Clay County Chamber of Commerce. When he saw Judy's quilt, he asked if I could make one just like it for his mother's birthday. The colors were perfect for his mother. He emailed the pictures and it worked out great. He said the quilt was a hit.
Created 2008
Judy Grove is the chairperson for the 2009 Good Shephard Hospice & Home Health Auction to be held May 16, 2009. She gave me some of her beautiful photographs so I could make her a quilt as a sample of what I can make for the auction. I will be creating a quilt of different scenes around Clay and Cherokee County.
Created 2008
Linda Davis is one of those special people that volunteers everywhere. One of her positions is the President of Granny's Attic which is a thrift store that helps Good Shephard Hospice. When the staff of Hospice found out Linda had cancer, they asked if I could make her a quilt. Linda is doing well. She takes her quilt with her to her chemo treatments so she can wrap her friends around her. We all wish her well.
Created 2008
I loved meeting Grace. She made beautiful applique quilts. She was so fascinated in how I could put pictures on her quilt. A few years back she had a fire in her home so she had lost most of her pictures. Some of these had smoke damage but restored nicely. Grace was so tickled with the picture that has the names of all her grandchildren in hearts around her (the large bottom center one).
Janet Dilts is my Mom. Like so many people, my Mom needed to start giving away some of her pictures when she decided to downsize. Before distributing all her pictures I found a way to put together the most important people in her life. An example is the first row of squares. They are collages of (1) her children, (2) her grandchildren and (3) her greatgrandchildren.
She loved it! Like many people respond when receiving their quilts, she said "you've captured my life." That seems to be very important to people.
Created 2007
Madeline was the mother of my good friend, Barbara Lang. My husband and I always liked to visit her because no matter how she was feeling (at 90 years young), she would always make you smile. She loved to tell you about the good 'ol days in Orlando - a different place from today. Last year, December 6, 2007, when she passed away I wanted to do something more special than flowers for Barabra. I took pictures of all the flower arrangements at Madeline's funeral and got special pictures from Barbara of her and her mother to create a quilt.
When I first approached Good Shepard Hospice about making a quilt for one of their patients, I felt very nervous. After my first conversation with Cleo I knew I was doing what I was supposed to do. Cleo knew she didn't have long to live because she had lived longer than the doctors had predicted. She was so sweet and ever so grateful for her quilt. I'm not sure who had more fun creating it - her or I. She had so many stories to tell me. I loved her pictures. She gave me faded wedding pictures along with little momentos from their honeymoon, many beautiful pictures of her kids along with nicknames, pictures of her as a school girl up through her nursing school pictures, etc. It was definitely an honor to make a quilt for Cleo. She wrote a story about her life in the mountains. "A good education was considered an impossible dream, especially for a girl, but Gratitude For Shoes tells how one little barefooted mountain girl overcame almost insurmountable obstacles in order to achieve that goal."
Created 2006
My memory quilts began with Sue Liston. When I found out she had cancer, I was speechless. A quilt filled with pictures of her family for her to wrap up with was the only thing I could think of to do for her. My friend, Barbara Lang, helped me create it. Sue loved her quilt! When Sue called to thank me, she said "I am speechless". The quilt says it all. She said it would go with her from her chair to her sofa to her bed. It was her faithful companion. Her husband, George, said it helped him through the winter after she passed October 31, 2007.
In honor of Sue, I asked Good Shepard Hospice Agency if they had a patient that would like a memory quilt. They gave me the honor of making a quilt for Cleo Hicks Williams. This is where my story begins.
Thank you, Sue Liston, for the journey you have led me on.
