by Blythe Campbell | Jul 4, 2016 | Sleuthing |
My mom’s 75th birthday would have been August 8 – it’s been more than five years since she died and I am about 30% finished getting her quilts up on this site. It’s been a project that gets done in bursts, and as time goes by I have realized...
by Blythe Campbell | Nov 23, 2015 | Blythe's Updates, Sleuthing |
Mom made several quilts using Red Wagon patterns. While researching a couple of later appliquéd quilts I ran across “Trains,” a pattern by Linda Brannock, which I’m sure was the source of Mom’s quilt “Trains in the Rain.” I just...
by Blythe Campbell | Apr 13, 2014 | Blythe's Updates, Quilt Challenges, Sleuthing |
The Shirtstack quilt was made through a challenge with Michel Landerman and Jeanie Smith. Here are the original instructions for the challenge, issued on May 28, 2009: Hi Ladies, OK, so here come the rules for the challenge. This is very stressful. I think we all...
by Blythe Campbell | Feb 27, 2014 | Blythe's Updates, Sleuthing |
Mom had lots of computer files for a book that began with “50Sens,” but for some reason I thought that was a work in progress. They are actually the files for her last book, The Big Book of Patchwork, which is subtitled “50 Fabulous Quilts from Judy...
by Blythe Campbell | Nov 21, 2013 | Blythe's Updates, Sleuthing |
I’ve added some more information to the Handy Andy quilt. Mom notes that it was her fourth quilt, and that the white fabric with light blue flowers was “used for rice bags at BA wedding” – my first wedding, in 1980. It also says it was hand...
by Blythe Campbell | Nov 14, 2013 | Blythe's Updates, Judy's Friends and Fans, Sleuthing |
I reached Roberta Horton via email. Here’s what she had to say about the Hurricane Hugo quilt: The quilt was the result of an African-American Quilt workshop I taught for the Anchorage quilt guild. Participants were to work with free hand cutting and no drafted...