It is a little known fact that...

I'm having fun today! Spring cleaning the living room (see below post)... and I really am I having fun, when my body doesn't hurt or I'm not so tired I can't keep my eyes open. After my nap, I rearranged my living room, always fun. And then I decided to tackle my closet in here. I was please to open the door and find that I really I hadn't opened that door since I last cleaned it. I've been known to stuff "stuff" in there when I knew someone was coming over. So I had to take a picture of a very small fraction of my fabric collection. It is much more impressive in person....


Alrighty... on to more embarrassing things. I think that it's pretty established that I can sew, right? But, it's a little known fact that I can quilt... but I can't make a quilt. How can this be?? I feel... inadequate in a way! Ridiculous! Anyhow, my mom forced some of her family members to take a quilting class with her, me being one of them. Then I was stuck with all these quilt blocks and nothing to do with them. So 2 Christmases ago, Rob made me barn board frames for them... thank goodness! I thought I was going to have to throw them away.


I really love my quilt blocks. They have a very special meaning for me. They are Underground Railroad Quilt blocks. Each block represented a different quilt used to guide the slaves to freedom. And since the Civil War Era is my favorite period in history I loved, loved making them. When we lived in Virginia, I would load up the kids in the car while Rob was at class and tour all of the somewhat close historical areas (I was very pregnant so I didn't dare venture too far). I had the Civil War fire ignited in me when I was a kid... 4th or 5th grade. I loved the tv series NORTH AND SOUTH. I've heard that you can get these at the library, but I think that person was lying to me since I have yet to find them. And I've tried to rent them on Netflix and Blockbuster.com and neither one has the first ones. Anyhow... I've blabbed enough for today.