About

    
Hi, I’m Jeannie and welcome to my Studio.

It’s my favorite room of our home. It’s actually a converted office, right off our front door.

Yes, everyone who comes in our front door has a wide open view of my studio – eek! (I’ll show you some organizing tips that have saved me lots of embarrassment).  I’ve given most of the quilts I’ve made away to family and friends, so I started this blog as an online scrapbook of patterns, techniques, successes and…accidents design variations.

 

So this blog was born.

How did I start sewing and quilting?
For me, those are two different questions I’ll address separately. I learned to sew in 4-H but we had a very pesky sewing machine and I remember the experience mostly as stressful and I dropped the sewing project after a few years.

Quilting was a mystery to me. Seriously. I couldn’t figure out why people would cut up perfectly good fabric and sew it back together again.

But in 2009, everything changed. A dear friend loved quilting and over the years she had tried to get me to quilt. She finally gave up. But in 2009, I was preparing to lead a mission trip from our church to France. I would get the chance to see my French exchange family and even bring my daughters to their quaint village. I had visited my French family a few times and we kept in touch so I wanted to bring a very special gift. I talked with an American friend in France for gift ideas. Here was her response, “well, I don’t know if you quilt. But quilting is known in France as a beautiful American art form.”

I immediately scheduled lunch with my dear quilting friend. “Tisha, I need you to tell me how I can make 4 quilts, in 4 months.” My friend nearly chocked to death on her food. An astounded, “What??,” was all she could muster as I explained my desire to bring hand made quilts to my French family. Tisha helped me choose easy patterns. Another quilting friend Mary Jane introduced me to kits from Connecting Threads.

But I didn’t catch the quilting bug until I saw the reaction of my French family to their new handmade quilts. They were astonished.

My French mom exclaimed that it was an “object d’art” and announced that her quilt would be hung on the wall.

My French niece immediately cuddled up in her quilt. That’s when I realized that quilts were very special.

Quilts are even more beautiful in a French garden.

Now I pray as I quilt and each quilt gives me that same feeling as that joy-filled, sunny afternoon on a French patio, surrounded by roses climbing up a 300-year-old stone farm house.

When I can’t be in France, I live with my husband in beautiful Kansas City. We have 3 children: one married so I gained a wonderful daughter-in-law, a daughter in college and a daughter in high school. They’ve all been in 4-H and the youngest one loves to quilt – that makes my heart happy. We are followers of Christ and deeply committed to bible study. You’ll find lots of scripture in this blog because I pray when I quilt, which makes my quilts steeped in love.

I hope you’ll find these Quick Reference Techniques helpful. I’d love to learn more about you and your quilting story. Just jot a note in the Comments section.

Thank you for spending some of your day with me.

Blessings,

Jeannie

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