This Little Quilt was made for Candi when she was little for a doll quilt. She played with it and her baby dolls.



The story about this little bear is that I made some crazy patch material and cut out the bear and this was when Candi was a little girl. She loved that bear and she named it PaPa Bob and still today Kyleigh plays with it and loves it as well. It has held up pretty well after all these years of pretty rough play.
The little chair that the bear is sitting on is out of the Old Methodist Church in Claremore which a friend Anawake Dawson gave me when they sold the old church to build the new one. I loved that chair because it reminded me of the one I sat at in the Methodist Church in Lone Wolf where I went as a little girl and up until I married. Good Memories of that Church.

Years ago I started to make a pieced quilt with this elephant block. A girl at work had found this pattern in a book and since I collect elephants she thought I would like to have it. Well I got four blocks made and boy they were difficult so I put them up thinking someday I would finish them. Well never did so this past week I had again lots of time on my hands so I just put together a little wall hanging and decided to make it a memory hanging with all my sisters and brothers and parents names on it. Turned out pretty good and I just hung it in my living room. I know it would have made a really pretty quilt but I will look at it each day and the quilt I would have worked on for far to long being it was a hard pattern to do.

This little quilt is my last quilt I made. When I moved back to Oklahoma I had a lot of time to just sit and needed something to do. I didn't bring my machine so I decided to do this one 100% by hand and a simple pattern. It only took me about two months to piece this and quilt it by hand. (I did bring my wonderful quilt frame).
It turned out to be a pretty quilt and I enjoy using it. I use all of my quilts and always have. Just something special sleeping under a quilt. I am now working on another one but I will machine piece it and hand quilt it.

This little quilted bear is a special bear. I made it some years ago. My great Aunt Arlie had given me a box of stuff and a old worn out quilt was in it. This quilt was just nearly thread bearing and I wanted to do something with it so I found the best parts of it which were the parts that hung off the side of the bed this makinig it not so worn. I cut those part away and made three of these bears. One for Linda and one for Shelba Lou and one for me. I sadly dont know what happen to Linda's and hope SHelba still has hers. I treasure mine because if I am right these were made from a quilt that either Aunt Arlie had made or Grandma Ward. So lots of Memories in this little red and white bear. Also a note the little stool that the bear is sitting on was made by Grandpa Zinn out of grape vines or so I was told. That also is a treasure. I have re-upostered the top but the bottom still in tack.

Little Quilter

Well this is my little Quilter. She saw her mommie quilting (I thought Candice had forgot how but when they were here on Candi's birthday she sat down and quilted
several block. I had taught her when she was very small. So here is my little Kyleigh going to learn how as well. This Memory makes me so happy.



Here is Candice and she is quilting again and I am so happy that she did not forget how to quilt and I thought it was so cute to see Kyleigh trying to do what she saw her Mother do.