Sewing Projects in 2021
Barbara Catlin's Last Quilt
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Barbara Catlin was the co-owner of Timberlock where we've vacationed since 1981. She shared her interest in quilting with me every summer and told me there was a log cabin quilt top waiting to be hand quilted before she got Alzheimers more than 10 years ago. When she died in August 2020 I asked her daughter to find the quilt and send it to me to finish. Spending 6 months hand quilting a queen-size quilt was perfect for staying home during Covid. I brought it to camp in August and it became a wedding gift for Barbara's granddaughter Caroline from her late grandmother when she got married there on Labor Day Weekend. |
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Bob's late sister Gale's oldest granddaughter got engaged last year. We decided she'd like a lap quilt for their apartment in Texas in her favorite colors and a Southwest geometric design. I adapted a pattern I saw on the cover of Quiltmania Magazine last year and added a hand embroidered sentence on the bottom border. It says, “You can’t change people, only your reaction to them.” Grandma Gale Knecht. Sara wanted to keep her beloved grandmother's advice close to her always. |
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My Simmons College classmate and Carlisle neighbor Karen Lawson started laboriously hand stitching these quilt blocks from a wide variety of fabrics in 1974 as a newlywed in Cincinnati while her husband Greg was a medical student. She continued buying fabrics and piecing blocks in Pittsburgh where he was a resident and she went to graduate school and had their first son, then in Lowell, MA where he began practicing pediatrics and their second son was born. They bought a house in Westford, MA, then moved to Carlisle in 1987 and she stopped stitching after making 28 blocks and proceeded to work as a social worker for 22 years. This summer she asked me to find someone to turn the blocks into a finished quilt. Since I'm committed to making quilts that don't end up in my own house, this was a perfect project to follow the 2 wedding quilts done earlier this year. The 3 blocks that didn't fit on the quilt became a pillow cover when Karen uses it on a twin guest bed. |
Updated December 2021
