Memories
A Quilt of Memories To start at the beginning, years and years ago I bought my first embroidery machine. Over time I made several baby quilts featuring embroidery designs for my grandbabies. I made others for friends and extended family. I would show each one to my mom and after a while she commented that she wished I would embroider some designs for her to use in a quilt. I hate to admit it but several years passed and then one Christmas I was struggling with what to get for my mom. After all I now know we all reach that age when there is really nothing that we need and if we do need or want something we probably just go out and buy it for ourselves. I ran across a set of embroidery designs featuring farm scenes with barns, tractors and various farm animals done in a single color. Knowing that my dad was a big John Deere fan, I stitched out the designs in a variegated green thread and trimmed the blocks to 10 ½ inches and gave them to my...