Hello again. First a little more about me. I started quilting in 1994. My mom had been quilting since 1978, when our neighbor brought mom some templates and scraps to make a Grandmother's Fan quilt. The neighbor thought mom needed something to do. Ha ha ha! Mom made that quilt and Dad helped her by using a Carpenters Square (metal) to cut the background squares out that the fans were appliqued onto. My haven't we come a long way since then!

Then mom got me into quilting. She had taken some classes at our local quilt store, The Elkins Sewing Center and I decided that I wanted to make a Lone Star Quilt from a Georgia Bonesteel book. Well, I made it. It was all 100% polyester, solid colors. I still have that top........needless to say it isn't quilted yet...........still in a stack of UFO's. Someday I will finish it.

Well, Mom and I quilted, joined several Guilds and went to alot of quilt shows. We had our machines set up in our sewing room side by side and we each added to a combined stash. We were known as the Riffle's----a fab mother-daughter quilt team. We had no project that the other hadn't helped with or sewn on.

In February 2005, she found a lump in her right breast which turned out to be breast cancer. Mom fought a brave battle and we thought we were beating the Cancer Beast, but she lost her batter on October 5, 2006. So Breast Cancer Awareness is dear to my heart. I have made a few projects to honor her and raise awareness that I will post picutres of soon..........since this is the beginnng of my blog. Remember ladies, get those mammograms!!!!!!!!

So, needless to say, it took awhile to get back to the sewing/quilting of it all. Everywhere I turned there were memories. Mom was bad to stash fabric in books for projects she wanted to make someday. Also we have alot of UFO's to finish........and I found her notes on how she wanted to finish them. But now, this is all comforting and I feel closer to her when I am sewing.

That said, I am now finishing up alot of the projects that we worked on together that have been in the UFO stack and it is so much fun finishing the projects and remembering what we were doing when we started them, where we got the fabrics, etc.

Our local Guild President JJ, of the Log Cabin Quilters Guild issued a challenge in our January 2008 newsletter to finish up one UFO a month this year. Well so far so good. Here is one of them. It is a Rose of Sharon block that my mom took in a class from a local teacher Fran K on March 25, 1996!!!! Well I finished the quilting and bound it on April 4, 2008! So it's never too later to finish..........this one only took 12 years!!! Ha ha ha!