I I started quilting in 1985 when my daughter was going off the college. She wanted to make a quilt I was a panel quilt, but she loved it and I fell in love with quilting. About 20 ladies and I met at a house in Shawnee in 1987 and started the first quilt guild in Shawnee, OK. In 1990 Doris Williams and I started making Christmas quilts from the Debbie Mumm books, and we started making them alike. Our love of Christmas quilts has grown over these 16 years and we have over 75 Christmas quilts and Christmas Wall Hangings. We have gone all over Oklahoma, Texas and now we are going into Kansas doing our Christmas Trunk Show. started quilting in 1985 when my daughter was going off the college. She wanted to make a quilt I was a panel quilt, but she loved it and I fell in love with quilting. About 20 ladies and I met at a house in Shawnee in 1987 and started the first quilt guild in Shawnee, OK. In 1990 Doris Williams and I started making Christmas quilts from the Debbie Mumm books, and we started making them alike. Our love of Christmas quilts has grown over these 16 years and we have over 75 Christmas quilts and Christmas Wall Hangings. We have gone all over Oklahoma, Texas and now we are going into Kansas doing our Christmas Trunk Show. |
I started piecing quilts in about 1980. I ordered my first rotary cutter out of a sewing book before they were sold in stores. I didn't order the mat. I thought, "Oh, well, I don't need that." When I started quilting, my Mother came from Odessa, TX where she had been to Bernina and took a class of Eleanor Burns 9 "Log Cabin Quilt In A Day", so away we went. I decided that quilting would be my thing, I sold my golf clubs, didn't do anymore cross-stitch, crocheting, just quilting. Mother was a wonderful seamstress. I wouldn't let her see my sewing because it couldn't come close to hers. I turned my guest bedroom into a sewing room. Jimwent to Las Vegas one time. I heard he lost $2500.00. He didn't' admit to it. So I called Cleo Nye at Sulphur to make me $2500.00 worth of cabinets for my sewing room. The first long trip I took was in 1987 for a class with Jenny Byers at Hilton Head. Then the same year, I went to Seattle, WA to a Mary Ellen Hopkins seminar, "It's Okay to Sit on My Quilt". Then on to Houston to Paduah, KY. Then I started teaching quilting at St. Gregory's College in Shawnee, the Vo-Tech in Shawnee, Sue's Sewing Shoppe, Ada, Okemah, Norman and Central Oklahoma Quilt Guild. Ann Woods and I went to Paduah, KY. Ann took a quilt appraisal class. I took a NQA Quilt Show Judging class. During the time of teaching the classes, there were so many quilters out there and no gathering place to come together, so we decided to form a quilt guild here in Shawnee. At the time, I didn't live in Shawnee, so Mary Spaulding and Sara Apperlee put an ad in the newspaper to set up a meeting. This is when Ann and I met. That year (1987), Spinning Spools Quilt Guild was started. To date, we have 90 members and been here for 20 years in 2007. A lot has happened in these last 20 years. We are doing these trunk shows. Both of us have made many quilts for our families and friends. Also, we always make each other something every Christmas. I love making Christmas Quilts. |
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Christmas Express Quilt Trunk Show
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