This past Monday, we returned from our travels to South Africa and Mozambique.
It was a marvelous trip, filled with meeting up with old friends and enjoying wild Africa!! I will write a couple of blog posts later on in the week.
But as soon as I got home, I had to go into content creation mode.
Right before we left, I was recording all of the video for my upcoming “YES, You Can Quilt it Yourself” online workshop. This was my view for several days before we took off….
I spent much of our two 16-hour flights editing and organizing videos, and then continued working on them this past week.
I have also spent an inordinate amount of time learning how to set up memberships on my website!! I am truly thankful for ChatGPT….my savior when it comes to all things website related.
So, what is coming up at Frances Quilts…..
The online course…..
….will be available on August 1st.
I will be participating in the Free-Motion Machine Quilting Online Summit, organized by “Mary-Go-Round Quilts”
I will send more information about that in the near future!!
My daughter has done it again, requesting another baby quilt for one of her friends. This time I will be thinking about a whimsical forest scene. This is the “mood board” picture…..
The shower is in the second week of August, so I need to get started fairly soon!!
Finally, I have an idea that I would like to make for the AQS “Petals of Connection” challenge…..
This is due on August 30th, so I will have to get closer to see if I have time to do it.
Oh, if that isn’t enough, I have a lot of CPA work to catch up on…..retirement can’t come soon enough!!
And, YES, I am feeling a bit hectic at the moment!!
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That may sound like an odd thing to say, but it’s true.
As I have told you before, my mom learned to quilt when she was young and made several beautiful quilts in her teens and twenties…..
But after Dad returned home from World War II, life got busy. She worked full-time, raised a family, and although she never stopped sewing or doing hand embroidery, quilting was set aside for many years.
Then, as America began preparing to celebrate its Bicentennial in 1976, there was a renewed interest in traditional American crafts, and quilting experienced an incredible revival.
Mom picked up quilting again right where she had left off, starting with making SIX quilts for my “Hope Chest” (do you remember those?)
I had grown up knowing that hand-made items are wonderful, and I loved seeing her create those quilts…
…and somewhere along the way, I fell in love with quilting too.
So, in a very real way, I became a quilter because of America’s Bicentennial.
Every Fourth of July, I’m grateful not only for our country’s history but also for the quilting revival that brought this wonderful craft into my family’s life.
