"NightMist" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:46:35 -0500, "Diana Curtis"
wrote:

I did read any condescention in Susan's posts. It just doesnt seem like
her
style.
But you make a valid observation Debra that there can be worth in any
quilt.
It doesnt depend on whether one starts with yardage or pre-printed panels
or
premade blocks. The heart and soul that is worked into a quilt comes from
the quilter and what they choose to do with the blocks.

Amen.

Ash's great gramma made him three baby quilts.
She used panels.
In the course of her life she has made some drop dead gorgeous pieced
and appliqued quilts, and has never used a sewing machine for any part
of any of her quilts. Considering that she is eighty something years
old, I expect she is allowed to make some baby quilts useing panels!
She is a little shakey in the hands and doesn't see quite as well as
she used to. She does like to quilt still though, and has stated that
she doesn't want to start a quilt and not get to finish it.
The quilting on those panel quilts is just awesome.
And she felt the need to _apologize_ for some of it!
Well it's only about 10 stitches to the inch, not 12 like she used to
be able to do, and she did a fair bit more diagonal gridding on the
background than she really likes because she can't see so well anymore
and...Geez! She quilted his name and birthday into all the quilts in
a beautiful spencarian script, she did shadeing and stuff on the
animals in the Noah's Ark panel, the Teddy Bears in another have
quilted fur, and there is steam and cinders quilted into the train
quilt. Such beautiful even stitches! Such precise lines! Such
wonderful design work! Apologize for those quilts indeed! Honest to
gosh if she had been any closer than North Carolina I would have gone
over and smacked her upside the head for such an apology!
Eightysomething years old or not.

NightMist
--
"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell

Please, please, please. Any chance of getting a look at these?

Cindy