They fall nearly a month apart: Veterans Day and Pearl Harbor Day. These two days commemorate the sacrifices made by American men and women in defense of their country. People of the “greatest generation” remember the sacrifices made not . . .
Three months from the day the building changed hands, the grand opening celebration for Born Again Quilts was held on Saturday, October 20. Three months of hard work priming, painting, spackling and repairing walls. Countless hours spent removing adhesive . . .
It takes many steps to restore a quilt. First you have to examine it to determine what damage has occurred: rips, stains, loose seams, binding without its “fold”, color fade, bunched batting, loss of embroidery and/or quilting stitches.
Next . . .
A long time dream comes to fruition on Saturday, October 20, when Born Again Quilts officially opens at its new location in an old building-an original Hoosier grocery store at 4005 South Wayne Ave next door to the Friendly Fox. The ribbon cutting . . .
Ahhh autumn-My favorite time of the year. Kicking off with the annual Johnny Appleseed Festival the season invokes warm days, crisp nights, high school football games played under stadium lights, and glorious fall foliage. The autumn months signal . . .
Unlike Susanna, Elvira Faye Kincaid Thompson came to New Haven on a recent Saturday afternoon not with a banjo on her knee but a basket of her quilt piecin’ on her arm.
Viry, as she is known to her friends, is the alter ego of history buff-community . . .
In the fall of 1968 my parents decide to transfer their children from the parochial to the public schools. I was very excited at the prospect of spending my sixth grade year at Hillcrest School along with all of the other neighborhood kids. I had attended . . .
Yep, you read it right. Last Saturday Eleanor Burns who revolutionized the technique of strip quilting was inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana.
Eleanor’s path to stripper glory started over thirty years ago with the self-publication . . .
When it’s 103 degrees outside and oppressive heat makes you cranky, the cool refine charm of Sweet Violets Tea and Antiques offers welcome respite.
On such a day in early July I meet with Sweet Violets owner Debbie Woodroof in the quiet cool tea . . .
Last week I attend the Appleseed Quilters Guild Show with my good friend Christine. The women at the welcome table show are delighted to receive autographed copies of The Waynedale News featuring the show. Rolling in immediately behind us in a wheelchair . . .
Appleseed Quilters Guild Biennial Show
Grab your friends and make plans now to attend the Biennial Appleseed Quilters Show at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum next week.
This quilt show has everything for the novice to the professional quilter, . . .
This year’s Harlan United Methodist Church quilt show’s theme was “Women of the Bible.” The eight entries were displayed before the church’s beautiful stain glass windows for an uplifting effect.
The quilt blocks are based . . .
In April I journeyed to the Harlan United Methodist Church biennial quilt show where I attended a near standing-room-only lecture by Fran Foskey owner of Bobbin Bear Quilting Designs (www.bobbinbeardesigns.com/) on “Color Confidence”.
Fran’s . . .
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO GRANDMA KAREN!
This Mother’s Day is a very special one for my older sister Karen (Levihn) Leach. She and her husband Tom became first time grandparents when son Nick and his wife Angie welcomed son Cohen Joshua into . . .
POSY POWER PACKS PUNCH AT STRING-A-LONG QUILT SHOW
The biennial spring quilt show hosted by the String-A-Long Quilt Guild of Valparaiso was truly outstanding. There were more vendors, attendees and quilts than ever before at this year’s . . .
For the first time in 26 years, the Macedonian Patriotic Organization (MPO) will hold its annual convention in Fort Wayne over this Labor Day Weekend August 31 – September 3.
This convention will mark the 90th anniversary of the MPO and the public . . .
THE WOMAN WHO
LOVES ELEPHANTS
Three years ago Perfect Location Realty moved into the Macedonian Tribune building that I manage for the Macedonian Patriotic Organization. A fledging real estate company, co-owners Zack Wilson and Justin Geeting brought . . .
For some March is all about college kids dunking balls through a hoop, but not for quilters! This March there are quilt events to attend and enjoy and many of them are free.
First the Sisters of the Cloth Quilt Guild’s exhibit at the Jeffrey R. . . .
A TALE OF
QUILT AND COMFORT
It was the best of quilts, it was the worst of quilts. How else to describe a quilt, a knotted comforter actually comprised of the most precious embroidered prayer blocks, machine sewn around the edge to the top of the heaviest, . . .
CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILT EXHIBIT
The Sisters of the Cloth Quilting Guild will exhibit quilts from the 1930s to present in the Krull Gallery at the downtown Allen County Public Library from February 20-March 30. The . . .
GHANAIAN KENTE CLOTH EXHIBIT AT THE FORT WAYNE MUSEUM
OF ART
Happy New Year!
If you are a lover of textiles I hope you had the opportunity to visit the Fort Wayne Museum of Art’s exhibit on Ghanaian kente cloth which closed January 8.
Located . . .
‘TIS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS
‘Tis the week before Christmas and my fingers are sore
from cutting and binding and quilting and more.
The ideal is to be done some time in November
It ain’t going to happen, not this year, not ever.
The . . .
BUGGY AND ME: A LOVE STORY
Veterans Day 2011: how could a day that started so right-end up so heart-breaking wrong?
The day started as usual about 5:15 a.m., feline fur child Sabrina steadily makes her way up my body as I lay in bed. She stops to knead . . .
FABRIC AND FRIENDS FIRST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
I heard about it for months.
“Have you seen the new quilt shop in Roanoke?”
“It has a man-cave.”
“The fabric selection is huge.”
Even my non-quilting friends were raving about . . .