THE GREAT QUILT ADVENTURE – Around The Frame
On a recent Saturday morning the door at Born Again Quilts opened and in walked Karen Rydman of Ossian. Karen announced that she has been wanting to come visit BAQ for a long time since she had been
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MARGARET PROPHET & HER SUGAR SACK QUILT BACK – Around The Frame
Recently I went to a garage sale promoted for people interested in fabric, sewing or quilting items: No one else need come. I was intrigued by the classified and figured it would be worth a stop. Not
A QUILTING LEGACY – Around The Frame
Happy Mother’s Day!
A couple of months ago I received an E-mail from Liza Hazzard who attends Our Shepherd Lutheran Church in Avon, Indiana with my mother. My mother enjoys sharing my Around the Frame
AROUND THE AUTOPSY TABLE AT THE HUBER – Around The Frame
Over 400 quilt enthusiasts enjoyed the Quilt Fair at the Huber Opera House in Hicksville, Ohio. It was heartening to hear people tell me how they read about it in the Waynedale News!
The attendees, who
CELEBRATING QUILTERS AND QUILTS WHILE RESTORING AN OPERA HOUSE – Around The Frame
The third Saturday of March is International Quilting Day and this year a new quilter will be counted amongst us. A couple of months ago I got an E-mail from 20-year-old Chris Winters asking me if I
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – Around The Frame
You may remember my August 3, 2018 article about Quilters Hall of Fame inductee Xenia Cord and her Beanie Baby bashing quilt she made for a friend. Xenia is a woman of many talents including quilter,
TIME FOR A NEW YEAR – Around The Frame
Happy New Year dear Waynedale Readers! By the time you read this, Meteorological Winter is half over. Winter weather hasn’t been too bad and the time keeps flying by.
I guess it is part and parcel
A GRANDMOTHER’S QUILT GOES HOME FOR THANKSGIVING – Around The Frame
It was the first weekend of December 2010 that I met Therese “Terry” Mihlbauer at the Unitarian Universalist Church Craft Show. Terry walked up to my booth and upon learning I restore quilts told
VETERANS ARE HONORED WITH PATRIOTIC QUILTS – Around The Frame
This year November 11 marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice which ended WW I. Formerly known as Armistice Day and now Veterans Day it is the day our nation pauses to give thanks and show appreciation to all of the fine men a
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CENTURY OF PROGRESS QUILT GETS A NEW HOME – Around The Frame
Somehow it was meant to be: I invite a nice woman I meet outside Born Again Quilts to come take a gander inside and not only make a new friend but have a great quilt story to share.
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This is how I met Marianne Darr Norman, a quilter, a lover of quilt hi
BUTTERFLIES TAKE FLIGHT – Around The Frame
I always love going to the Maumee Valley Antique Steam and Gas Show. The quilt show is always my first stop where it is fun to hang out with fellow quilters and view this year’s entries. There is a constant stream of visitors with ballots in hand
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BASHING BEANIE BABIES – Around The Frame
Most of us remember the Beanie Babies: Those small stuffed animals of the mid-1990’s stuffed with plastic pellets so you could shape them unlike typical animals stuffed with cotton/poly batting.
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How big was the Beanie Baby craze? Back in 1
THE ANCIENT TEXTILE TRADITIONS OF UZBEKISTAN – Around The Frame
This spring my friend, Nancy Watts, and her husband, John, went on a small group trip to Uzbekistan, a Central Asian nation and former Soviet republic. They traveled there because Nancy, a quilter and textile enthusiast, wanted to learn fi
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CELEBRATE DIVERSITY ON INDEPENDENCE DAY – Around The Frame
Happy 4th of July! It’s that time once again to celebrate our nation’s Declaration of Independence with family and friends and for many of us a day off.
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I remember the 1976 Bicentennial. It was the summer before I turned twenty. I was attendin
THE BELL TOLLS IN MEMORY ON MEMORIAL DAY IN WAYNEDALE – Around The Frame
Soon it will be Memorial Day and I will once again be marching in the Waynedale Memorial Day Parade. As much as I love marching the route in my son’s USMC shirt and waving to the friendly people who take the time to watch the parade, it is the servi
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FOUR GENERATIONS OF QUILTING MOTHERS – Around The Frame
What would be a more fitting topic this time of year than the history of four generations of quilting mothers? I first met Priscilla Keidel Miller when she came down to the Born Again Quilts studio to show me how to fold a hankie into a butterfl
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FOUNDLING FABRIC FOUND AT BAQ’S FRONT DOOR – Around The Frame
A couple of weeks ago as I drove up to Born Again Quilts I noticed a green bin in front of the door. Walking up to it I noticed the duct-taped lid was marked “fabric”.
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Inside was a trove of beautiful fabrics. This is not the first time fabric in need
A CENTURY OF PROGRESS – Around The Frame
Next month will mark the 85th anniversary of the opening of the World’s Fair known as the Century of Progress Exposition (May 27, 1933-November 12, 1933; May 26, 1934-October 31, 1934) in Chicago. Planning for the fair began in January 1928
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APRIL FOOLS AND EASTER DAY! – Around The Frame
Happy Easter and I’m not fooling! What do these two holidays have in common: They both are linked to calendar dates. The date of Easter in the Western Church is determined differently than in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Some years they are b
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SUN BONNET SUE’S ARTISTIC WARDROBE – Around The Frame
Recently I was in a local thrift store and came across two quilts featuring Sun Bonnet Sue and her companion Sam. Both quilts were hand appliquéd and hand quilted in circles. Nothing unusual about that! What was unusual was the clothes they w
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WHEN IRISH HANDS ARE QUILTING – Around The Frame
Soon we will be celebrating St Patrick’s Day and National Quilting Day on Saturday, March 17. Where St. Paddy’s Day is always celebrated on the 17th, NQD falls on the third Saturday of March: the 17th.
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When one thinks of St. Patrick’s Day, peo
WHERE CSI AND QCI COLLIDE – Around The Frame
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is back on “regular TV on Channel 15.2. I always enjoyed watching the show because it uses science and observation to uncover who committed a crime and how. When people bring quilts to me to be restored, I need t
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FISH AND HEARTS – Around The Frame
Something that only happens once every several years is happening this year! In February, March and April two special days fall on the same date: Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday (February 14) St. Patrick’s Day and International Quiltin
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REUNITED AT CHRISTMAS – Around The Frame
Last summer Cheryl and Jim Roush of Fort Wayne visited Born Again Quilts. They brought with them the baby quilt made by Cheryl’s Aunt Effie for her first-born child Josh. Aunt Effie’s hobby was sewing and she was quite gifted at it. The quilt s
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HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS – Around The Frame
Christmas is almost here and with all of the planning and preparation nearly done, it’s nice to take a break from all of it and do something creative with family and/or friends. Making Christmas ornaments is fun because they can be made using
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