Butterfly Wall Hanging

This is a wll hanging that I made from some pieced butterflies that my little Grandmother Zinn made many years ago. I put them on quilt blocks and sashed them with blue strips and on each block is a member of my family embroidered. I love this pattern because it is a old pattern and I have seen it in several quilt books over the years. Of course I love anything that is old and mostly because it belonged to my grandmother and them mother kept the blocks for many years in a trunk (I also have the trunk that is over 100 years old).
This is more Memories That Last Forever.

Rachel's Quilt
This little quilt was made for a special little girl in my life. Rachel is the daughter of my dearest friend Teresa and Brad. I started this quilt for her when she was first born. Little Rachel was born very tiny just a couple of pounds and she is indeed a mircle from birth. She brings so much joy to her parents and they have shared her with me. I love this little girl as if she were my very own great granddaughter and I plan to be in her life for a very long time. Each stitch that I made in this quilt was a stitch of love. I sent this to little Rachel for Christmas 2008. Special Memories on the quilt.

Family Tree Quilt

This quilt I made by scanning old photo's and printing them on transfer paper and then I transfered them to quilt blocks. Zinn McConnell Ward Swafford. I made this to pass along to my son Randy someday. Making this quilt sure brought memories to mind. I could just quilt and think of that ansestor and how it was for them in those days of long ago. Again I will say "Memories Last Forever" even in a quilt.

Methodist Quilters
This is my Sun Bonnet Sue quilt that we are working on. This little quilting group would meet one day a week and quilt all day. We would bring a sack lunch and then just quilt and visit and have a really special time. I normally would quilt my own quilts but on this one I really wanted the memories of quilting with me friends. The lady on the left that is looking up and smiling is my dear friend Penny Savage. We were friends for many years and I look forward to seeing her again when I move back to Oklahoma. She made the prettiest quilts I have ever seen in my life. When she quilted she did one stitch at a time and that is not the normal way most quilt but I tell you her quilting was perfect. I only wish I could quilt half as good. Lillian Cowan my mother
in- law quilted with this group but she is not in this picture she was not there this day.
I will always have wonderful memories from quilting with this group.
Memories That Last Forever

Candice 's Little Sun Bonnet Sue
This little quilt I made for Candice and I worked really hard to make this quilt special. It has a lot of fancy embroidery work on it and a lot of quilting. I worked on this for a lot of years and even little Candice worked on it some. Being that this is my favorite pattern I always love working on the quilts with a lot of work on them.

Mothers Rebekah Lodge Friendship Quilt

This quilt is special to me because it was given to Mother many years ago but the Rebekah Lodge Order that she belonged to and was active in for so many years. All the ladies made a block and they put their name on the block. It is really neat to look at those names and remember back to the ladies. I of course knew most all of them.

The Rebekah Lodge
I could not write about mother without putting something in about the Lodge where she enjoyed many years Nellie Juanita (Zinn) McConnell was a long standing member of the Rebekah Lodge in both Lone Wolf, Oklahoma Lodge number 126 as well as Hobart, Oklahoma Lodge number 78. In the span of these forty two (42) years mother served as Nobel Grand Several times. She served in 1950 and 1955 in Lone Wolf also three times at Hobart Lodge, those years being 1972, 1978 and 1981. She was still a active member at the time of her death in October of 1989. These are only some of the dates that I was able to verify and I do believe there are other years that she served in this capacity of Nobel Grand. From what research I have done I think this is the same as the president of the club or lodge. I know that Mother truly enjoyed being a member of the Rebekah Lodge.
For many years I can remember as a child that mother would go to Lodge meetings every Monday night. These meetings were held at the Lodge Hall that was upstairs above Hartsons Drug Store. I can remember us kids going to the movie on Monday nights while mother was at Lodge Meetings. The movie theater was across the street from where she was meeting. Mother joined on June 9, 1947 and was a member there for many years until May 11th of 1970 when the Lone Wolf Lodge members joined with the Hobart Lodge. There were not many members that could climb the stairs to the meeting hall when they were getting older and the membership fell off. It was at that time that Mother and several others went to Hobart. Mother was an active member in Hobart until the time of her death.
The Hobart Rebekah Lodge # 78 was instituted on April 26, 1902 with a membership of 75 listed on the Charter. In the year 1980 not to much had changed because there were just over 100 member. With the invention of television and even cars since the existence of the Rebekah Lodge they have held there own. In the year of 1980 the youngest member was 22 years old and the oldest being 91 years of age. Rebekahs are constantly "Striving to win the war of Adversity: and they lend their talents, time and money to the promotion of homes for the elderly, scholarships for excelling students, sending delegated to visit the United Nations in Session. The only Fraternal Order to be able to do this. Several students from this local district have made this trip. Eye Research - Support a Chair at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. For eye research. Diabetes research, Aid as leaders in March of Dimes campaign along with research in Drug Abuse and Youth Center.
Mother always thought that they did good works to help people in need. She gave many hours to this cause. Many of Mothers friends belong to the Rebekah Lodge as well. Mother knew everything there was to know about the Rebekah’s and she took pride in being a long term in good standing member of both the Lodge in Lone Wolf and later the one in Hobart. She was driving herself and some of her friends to Hobart every week to meetings up until the time she had her stroke.
(This is the Rebekah creed)
I AM A REBEKAH:
I believe in the Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of man, and the
Sisterhood of woman. I believe in the watch-words of our Order - Friendship,
Love and Truth. Friendship - is like a golden chain that ties our hearts together.
Love - is one of our most precious gifts, the more you give,
the more you receive. Truth - is the standard by which we value
people. It is the foundation of our society.
I believe that my main concern should be my God, my family and my friends.
Then I should reach out to my community and
the World, for in God's eyes we are all brothers and sisters.
I AM A REBEKAH!

Candice Elaine First Quilt

When Candi was a little girl she wanted to make a quilt. She would see me quilting a lot and she wanted to make one for her doll. So we cut her up some blocks and she would sit by me and with her little sewing box she would piece the blocks. She did them all by herself and then we together set it together and she tacked it. Candi did a lot of things when she was little just like I would do. She could stand on a chair and make a pie crust right along with me. Candi also loved to make cookies and she would cut them out and the whole thing except I would not let her use the oven. I hope now that she has a little girl our sweet little Kyleigh Marie that she will teach her some of the things that I taught her back in those days. Candi was the Joy of my life and still is except now she has to share it with Kyleigh Marie. More Memories That Have Lasted Forever

Special Quilt
I guess you might can tell by looking at most of my quilts they are a lot of them Sun Bonnet Sue just all different. I love tht pattern and I have several of them. Now this partucilar quilt is special in that it was pieced and set together by me and then the First Methodist Church in Claremore that I belong to the quilting group quilted it. I was so pleased to be able to quilt with these lovely ladies that were in our group.
This quilt has a lot of quilting and if you will notice a little butterfly in each block. I put a butterfly in each of the Sun Bonnett Sue quilt that I make. Some are fancier than others. Actually the more I make the better I get in quilting and the fancier I made the blocks. The next one after this one I really did a lot of extra work. Quilts are memories that are made one stitch at a time. I am so proud to own several quilts that I have made over the years. I sleep every night with one of the quilts summer and winter you will find one on my bed.
Truly Memories Last Forever.

"Centennial" This quilt has quite a story behind it.I worked on this quilt for at least 20 years.No I am not that slow I just kept taking it outworking on it and putting it up again. I seemed to have a problemgetting it to square up so I would just put it up and thenI would drag it out again.One day I just decided to take the scissors and make it straight and bind it and finish it.At long last it was finished and turned out pretty good.I had called it "My Ugly Quilt"for years but as it turned out it was pretty and very colorful. The pattern is called "Centennial".There is a story behind this quilt pattern.Back in the covered wagon pioneer days, womenwould cut little pieces of fabric in hexagon shapes and they would trade with their friends, then when they had enough blocks that were different they would make this quilt. This would make many different colors and patterns in the quilt. I enjoy this quilt and I use it a lot. I actually use all my quilts because
that is what they are made for is to use and enjoy.
More Memiores that Last Forever.

Quilting

One of my very favorite things to do is to quilt. I learned how to quilt on this quilt. The blocks are made for dresses that Arlene and I wore as little girls. Mother had set the blocks and never quilted them. We I decided that I wanted to learn to quilt I took the blocks and put new background material on each one. What was there was turnning yellow and I wanted it to be white. After I finished all the blocks I sit it together with the pink and blue sashing. I quilted this by hand as I do all my quilts. I was pretty proud of the quilt even tho I am sure it was a very beginner's quilt and any quilter could tell . I was however proud of the work that I had done and therefore my first attempt at quilting. Over the years I have used this quilt a lot. I am a firm believer that a quilt is made to use not just to look at. So for many years I used it. Just recently Candi my granddaughter ask me for this quilt because she said it was the softest one of all my quilts. This even after I had given her a beautiful Sun Bonnet Sue quilt for her high school graduation but it was new and she wanted this one because it was soft. (smile) Well yes of course I gave it to her like I do most things she wants this telling you she is a little spoiled and I am to blame for most of that. (smile) She uses the quilt and that I am happy about. This is just another amoung the many memories that I have that will last forever.