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Family Quilts

 


A few days ago, March 20, 2021, it was National Quilting Day.  Quilting is such an important part of my family history.  I remember going to my Grandma Mueller’s house on the weekends and she would have a quilt up in the living room.  It was always fun to crawl under the quilt suspended in the frame and play or look at the bottom of it and see all of the stitches made through the top, batting and bottom to make beautiful designs along the edges.  My grandma would quilt for others in the community too, to help supplement her income.  I come from a family of quilters.  My Grandmother, Mary, and I’m sure many of her family before her, her mother and sisters, along with her daughters, Eleanor, Veronica, Clara and Loretta were all long time quilters, donating many, many hours to their church quilting groups, along with creating their own beautiful masterpieces with fabric, embroidery floss and needles.  I know my Grandma, Aunt Eleanor, and my Mom also did crochet and other fancy work with embroidery floss and needle.  I have a beautiful sweater that my Aunt Eleanor made for me when I was a teenager, I treasure it still, even though it doesn’t fit anymore.  The pictures included are some of the quilts my Aunt Loretta made, from embroidering the blocks, sewing together, to quilting on the same quilt sticks that my grandmother used, and the last picture is my Grandma, Mary Mueller, in 1976 sitting in the living room of her home quilting.  I’m so blessed to have a quilt that my grandmother made for me, along with some pillow cases she embroidered.  She made a quilt for each of her grandchildren 16 in all, me being the last one! 






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