http://www.amishreader.com/2012/04/23/the-beauty-of-quilts/ Amish Authors, Amish Fans, Amish Giveaways Fri, 23 Nov 2018 03:16:19 -0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://www.amishreader.com/2012/04/23/the-beauty-of-quilts/#comment-4998 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:35:23 +0000 http://www.amishreader.com/?p=2787#comment-4998 Last year, our UMC District Superintendent was retiring and someone decided each church could furnish one or more quilt squares with Christian themes – all we had to do was go on line, choose and copy one of 4 suggested patterns and get material and put an 8″ x 8″ square together. Easy, simple, right? Three of us in my church decided to furnish one. Two were turned in to the final quilt maker. Somehow or another mine ended up about 5″ by 4″ and was very deformed. One lady in the church asked to take it home as a souvenier. I’ve been nervously awaiting it to show up in some public moment to embarrass me. Definitely not my calling!

]]> http://www.amishreader.com/2012/04/23/the-beauty-of-quilts/#comment-4995 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:50:38 +0000 http://www.amishreader.com/?p=2787#comment-4995 I love quilts. I remember from childhood watching my mother and grandmother quilt at my grandmother’s house.
The quilting rack was hanging from the ceiling where it ci=ould be let down when they were ready to quilt. I wasn’t lucky to get one of those but a fond memory. The only quilts I have made was a baby quilt for a granddaughter(the first) and it was a tied quilt. Next I made a wedding quilt for my son when he married. It was a heavy quilt made from winter materials, also a tied quilt. But I was very proud of them. ( I know the Amish think you shouldn’t be proud, but I was!
Maxie Anderson

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