crazy quilting and mother/daughter weekend

Somewhere in the years of quilting as a group, we decided we needed a name and picked Riverview Crazy Quilters. Quilting had always been associated with the poorer classes of people, afterall the quilts were orginally made from old clothing. It became a popular pastime with the richer women in the early 1900's but they used pieces of finer fabrics like velvet, satin and silk. The pieces were sewn onto a muslin backing and often eleborate embroidery was added. 

On our quilting weekend in 1999 some of us attempted to do some crazying quilting. I made two pillows. Sewing those slippery fabrics was quite a challenge!

In the fall of 2000 we decided to do a mother/daughter weekend. I had found a cute pattern and volunteered to teach this weekend. We made wallhangings representing our families. Each gingerbread like person represents one of members in our family.

this is the one that Taylor and I made.



 These photos were taken twelve years ago, so all of our beautful daughters are now around 20 years old, but of course none of us mothers have aged a bit!

I made this wall hanging for Barry's dad and mom. I gave this in celebration of Dad's 70th birthday. Each of the three hearts represents one of their adult children and their spouse, the 7 gingerbread people each represent one of the grandchildren. On the back of the hearts I printed each marriage date, on the back of the gingerbread kids is the name and date of birth of each grandchild.