I meant to put in a link for the National Quilt Register, for anyone who's interested. ( Late-night brain strikes again! )
Here 'tis: http://amol.org.au/nqr/ Also, if anyone wants to read my grandmother's story, her name was Mathilde ( Tillie ) Budich, and you can find it through the 'Search the Register' page. ( Can you tell that I'm *incredibly* proud that two of my grandmother's quilts are in the Register? ) Susan, how lovely that you have something that your mom was making, that you can continue. Happy 'yo-yo'-ing! Joannah --- Susan Data-Samtak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My Mom passed away 3 years ago. In her stash, there were yo-yos. I made them into pillow tops at Christmas and a laptop quilt for my niece. I still had pieces, as well as yo-yos left, so now I have a stash of yo-yos and "yo-yos to be". I knit charity items while watching TV, and sometimes, also stitch up a few yo-yos. I have collected photos of completed yo-yo bed quilts to guide me toward my final goal. Susan "Creative Clutter is Better Than Idle Neatness" Carol H. On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Joannah Hansen wrote: > <--- "Penny Ladnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > < > <At the time, she was also making a yo-yo quilt. Mrs. Burbidge > carried <a bag with her full of her circles for yoyos where ever they > <traveled. She showed me a completed section of the quilt. On the > <back of each yoyo, she stitched the date and location as to where she > <made it. She said it was her journal of their travels. > < > <Penny E. Ladnier > > There must be something about yo-yo quilts - my maternal grandmother > got hooked on making them, although she never dated them. Below is an > excerpt from the story that my mother wrote about her for the National > Quilt Register: > > "In the 80s she watched me making a 'yo-yo' patch cover for a doll's > cot and that started her on another quite enormous project. She began > to make yo-yo bed covers for all the girls in the family and herself. > We can be sure of 14 that she made in about 8 years. She actually wore > out needles sewing all those circles! She liked the idea of using up > all those small, odd shaped scraps." > > The Burbidges sound like lovely people, you were so lucky to know them. > > Joannah _____________________________________________________________ Sluggy.Net: The Sluggy Freelance Community! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
