My First Blog!

Well here goes my first attempt at blogging... wish me luck.  

Every summer my parents dragged us 5 kids back to Michigan for a generally 2 week camping trip at various state parks there.  We were joined by Uncle Herbie (Dad's youngest brother), darling Aunt Susie and their 5 kids: my cousins.  Four adults, 10 kids.  It was great.  Aunt Susie had a sister named Wendy.  While Wendy was my cousins' aunt she wasn't actually MY aunt, but we all called her Aunt Wendy anyway. 

Nearly every summer we visited Mackinac Island for a day of shopping and sightseeing and fudge eating.  One summer was more memorable though: "Aunt" Wendy and her husband Mike had bought a huge old house on Mackinac Island.  We spent an afternoon exploring the house and marveling at the beautiful items that came with the house.  My favorite to this day is the cupboards filled with vintage quilts.  I think it was that day that made me decide to someday make my own heirlooms... or at least one "heirloom"... I wanted to make a quilt.

I've sewed things here and there along the way: kids' Halloween costumes, curtains, etc and have added bits and pieces of fabrics to my stash intending to someday get serious about making a quilt, but its only a few months ago that I got down to business.  I settled on a pattern (60 degree diamonds), settled on a color palette (autumn reds, golds, browns and greens against a creamy turquoise backbround), decided after much hem-hawing around to commit forever to prewashing fabrics and .. finally, started stictching!