A Really Boring Story!

Well I guess I should start at the beginning, that way I can do a good job at boring you before we get to the good stuff!

I was born near the small Illinois town of Beecher City. I am the youngest of four,  Walter, & Willie are the  idiots that I claim as my brothers. oh and I guess I need to claim my sister Lynn as well! We were raised by our grandmother, our mother was unable to care for us as she was suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, so when I was around 9 months old we all moved into Grammy’s House.Grammy was the quilter in my family, she always made quilts for the new Babies, Weddings & Just Because . She made a number of quilts in a year, no I can’t say just how many but she could make a quilt and hand quilt it in less that two weeks, and no they were not baby quilts she never made anything smaller than a Full Size quilt.

When us kids were home from school one of the ways she keep us occupied was to teach us to embroider, crochet, and sew. Yes, the boys learned as well even if they say they have know ideal what I am talking about! When I was nine I made my first quilt, I picked out the fabrics, pattern, cut the pieces (with scissors. no rotary cutter back then!) and sewed it together on Grammy’s old Singer Sewing Machine. I have to brag a bit and say it didn’t turn out all that bad, but it sure took me a lot longer than it would have taken Grammy. When it came time to Do the hand Quilting, Grammy tried, really she did, to teach me the proper way to move the needle and the correct stitch length. but my fingers just didn’t move the way the should have (that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it!) Every day before I would go to school my quilting looked, shall we say no were near as good as it should have, but for some reason when I came home it was perfect. Yes it took me some time to figure out that when I was gone she ripped out my stitching and redid it all. After about a week of teaching she finely reached over, took the needle from my hand and said, “ your sewing machine is over there, you do that part, I’ll do this part.”

When Grammy first saw a quilting machine in a magazine she was very interested, but she thought the prices were just to much. But would say “ this is what I need, I can stand behind Beth why’ll she quilts, and smack her on the back of the head when she does it wrong.” it was some time after when my Aunt decided to purchase a machine for me, Grammy had passed away a few months before so she wasn’t around to play with it, but I think about her when I am quilting every day.

Are you asleep yet???? J

My business started as a fluke. I had been quilting for my family with no intentions of making it my job, when I got a call asking if I would do some quilting for a neighbor of one of my relatives. She wanted some quilting done ASAP and just didn’t want to do it herself. She was my first real customer, and everything just sort of went from there. Not long after I was in the Local Quilt Shop and was showing a quilt that I had quilted to one of the employees and the next week she anted something done. So with the help of The Local Quilt Shop and Word Of Mouth my business became what it is today.Many things have changed from the beginning, The one week turn around is more like three months and that simple first quilting machine has been taken apart and replaced with a newer larger one that I like to call the Big Green Pain in the …. Neck! Really, that’s what I call it, what did you think I was going to say!