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Howdy Partner

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Howdy Partner
July 2025

This is a ‘Welcome to the Family’ quilt I made for our newest family member, Gentry Michael. Gentry joined us on July 9, sharing the same birthday as his Grandpa!

The quilt pattern is Cattle Call, a Highland Coo made by Art Easy Quilting Company. When my niece and her husband had their baby shower, it was Highland Cow themed, so that made choosing a quilt design pretty easy. I backed it with a cowboy boots print pattern since they love country and western culture: they already had bought Gentry’s first pair of cowboy boots before he was even born 🙂 I did a diagonal straight line quilting with a light grey thread. Most of the fabrics are new with the exception of the speckled light beige fabric on the cow’s snout. While I have very few bits and pieces of fabric left from Edith, Gentry’s maternal great-grandma, I thought this was a good place to incorporate it, so that Great Grandma Edith can smell her new little great grandbaby in heaven ♡. I suspect that Edith is up in heaven enjoying all her wonderful great-grandsons, which now total eight!

I hope Gentry enjoys his big and loving family! 

Tealing All Our Stories (TAOS)

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Donation Blocks for Tealing All Our Stories (TAOS)
June 2024

For the past few years, I’ve made blocks to be included in a donation quilt for the Trudy Crowley Foundation fund-raiser held in Australia. The foundation supports the Trudy Crowley Center, providing a safe space, self-care and advice for those with ovarian cancer and their families.

This year’s theme was a bookcase. It was fun to see what the contributors included on their shelves in addition to the books, as you can see in the final quilt shown below. There’s even a picture of Trudy Crowley who started the foundation (second row, center block). For my blocks, I included a vase of sunflowers, a succulent plant and a shelf decoration, J&C. The shelf decoration is in remembrance of my sister Cathi and her sister-in-law Jody.

Kate over at Tall Tales from Chiconia is the ring leader of this endeavor each year, and what a mountain of organization, coordination and work she puts into it! This year’s theme was just as clever as the years prior. You can see from the variety of the blocks, that each contributor has indeed told their own story through their block(s). 

Voila! Here is the finished quilt. I say every year, and say again, it’s amazing that so many different perspectives on a theme come together to create something so beautiful! Great job to the contributors, and kudos to Kate for spearheading.