made with love

I come by my love of crafting and creating honestly. My family is loaded with talented crafters. It's in my genes, I guess. (Well, the love, that is, not the talent.) Anyway, I have long meant to make a scrapbook documenting some of our precious treasures made by loved ones. But a comment Jean made yesterday, gave me an idea. Why not blog about them? After all, I'm much more likely to get that done than I am a scrapbook! So, from time to time, I'm going to do a little post about a handmade treasure that adorns our home.



The quilt that sparked Jean's comment was made by my incredible mom. The photo really doesn't do the quilt justice, I must say. It is so vibrant and cheerful in real life. I saw this printed panel somewhere and fell in love with it. So of course, Mom, being the sweet, thoughtful, generous soul she is, set to work making it for me. She cross-stitched the design (it was printed on the fabric), and then she hand-quilted it. I tried, but couldn't manage to get a good close-up of her quilting. She is amazing! Truly, truly a talented quilter. She doesn't love piecing quilts, though she has done several. Her passion is the hand-quilting. And believe me, her love shines right through!