I worked on this quilt for about a year.  I didn't have it done when we got married, but I finished stitching the binding on the day we moved into our first house in Florida, about 5 months later.  Michael is so tall his feet stuck out of the bottom of the quilt we had been using (the star...

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I made the second quilt that I used while I was in college during the summer of 1999.  After 3 semesters in school, I started co-oping.  So Spring 1999 I lived in Hampton, VA, and worked for NASA Langely Research Center.  The way co-oping is set up, I would work a semester, go to school for a semester, etc.,...

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The second quilt I ever made was a Christmas present for my high school boyfriend. We were in the marching band together, and I made a music lap quilt. I am still friends with him, and in 2012 he found the old lap quilt at his parents house and he shipped it back to me, which was a pleasant...

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I pieced together this quilt top in 1995 with help from my mother and my paternal grandmother hand quilted it in 1996.  I used it 1997-1999 as a quilt during my freshman and sophomore years in college.  The pattern is the Winning Hand "Quilt-in-a-Day" pattern by Eleanor Burns.  This was the last quilt that my grandmother worked on before she passed...

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