Bquiltin Studio

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Monday, June 26, 2023

Reunion Quiltin

AM progress! I intend to vertically appliqué LUCINDA on left border And on right side…. Fisher/Huggins wording!

And no: Not Gonna raffle nor give it away! 💥💥

Our family history says that at abt the age of 15-20 years old ... Lucinda was a slave, and the daughter of a slave master. She was sold from an auction block in Memphis, Tn in about 1860. She was bought primarily because she was a good cook.

Nothing is mentioned of Lucinda before the sale, except it is believed that she was in a shipment of slaves from North Carolina. (Seems thereafter… she was bought by a Civil War Captain from McGehee, Arkansas. She never mentioned his first name: only Cap’n Anderson. Captain shipped her back to McGehee by train to his plantation. Lucinda had a beautiful brown-reddish complexion and soft brown hair. Cap’n Anderson fathered and raised two separate families in the same yard….one by his wife, and the other by Lucinda, my great-grandmother.

The two sets of children played together, but Lucinda said her children hated their father. Whenever they saw him coming on his big fine horse with a fancy saddle, they would hide under the house and in the bushes. Lucinda was a virgin when Cap’n Anderson acquired her as a teenager. Our family historians state two important facts: (1) it is not surprising that she grew to love him…. He was the only man she knew during her entire life.

(2) The oldest son Frank, born …….. was born near the beginning of the Civil War. When he was a very young man, he built a modest house near Herds, AR and moved his mother and younger siblings away.

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Slow spirit today

Slow-like….. the big word is CONTEMPLATIVE..quiltin

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Bold n Beautiful Black Fabric

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Western Lawman Bass Reeves

Such a positive- talkative weekend.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Joyously Finishing a Quilt

Monday, May 15, 2023

Quiltin for JOY

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Thursday Triumphant

Hell dear world of quilters

Ready and finishing borders on my friends DRESSED TO THE NINES A very traditional-vintage feel!!

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Pieced, Batting, Backing—-REPEAT

Bits n’ Pieces of the

Quilt piecing process is my favorite part of making a quilt. Of course, I love the look of my finished quilt once I have gone through with all of the other steps, but quilt piecing techniques are my favorite!

What is a pieced block?

Piecing is done on the top layer of the quilt. It is assembling and stitching all of the smaller pieces of the fabric together to form a block, which will be joined with other blocks to form the top layer of the quilt.

Backing

The Quilt backing is the backside fabrics layer of a quilt sandwich. They can be made from large cuts of coordinating fabric (such as 44″-wide quilting cotton ) that are stitched together to fit your quilt, or they can be cut down from 90″ or 108″ cuts of quilting cotton that are specially designed for backing large projects. They can be simple and solid, or you can add strips and blocks. For me-it’s a coordinated scrappy but classy look!

Batting

Batting type #1: Cotton – Cotton batting has long been a personal favorite of mine. Quilts made with cotton batting are warm, soft, and have a crinkly look after washing that is reminiscent of antique quilts—and that’s exactly why I love it!

Monday, May 1, 2023

Dressed to The Nines 🥰

This beautiful DRESSED TO THE NINES !! Completed just in time for Show n Tell at our monthly ScisyYales Quilt Guild Meeting!

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Quiltin Thankfully

I always have to remind the inner cray woman inside of me….. got keep doing what I do. Not for fame- or bigger and better……. My corner of the world is what God meant it to be!