One of the things that a lot of kids miss out on these days, is being exposed to farm life, and how food is produced. When our kids were little, I made sure they went to summer camps on farms, got to ride horses, feed chickens, and I think they even got to milk goats.
My mom lived on a farm as a little girl. She rode her horse bareback to school, drank goat milk, and her parents were trailblazers as vegetarians, and organic gardeners. She went to school in a one-room schoolhouse for many years, and as a girl I loved to hear her stories from the countryside of Oregon.
I was horse-crazy as a girl, and I had a horse for awhile as a teenager. We always had a garden, and for awhile we lived in a house with a huge fruit orchard. I had friends who lived on farms, and I loved to go see the baby animals in the Springtime. So all of those things add up to a lot of memories, that bring an appreciation for the fabrics I pick out for our Farm, Animal and Farmer’s Market categories.
Many of us learned to quilt and sew from our grandmothers, and perhaps you have an antique quilt that was stitched on a farmhouse kitchen table, with those sweet Thirties prints that are enjoying a revival right now. What fun we have these days, using fabrics to tell a story of that country life that our grandmothers knew!
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana
* The collage above is a photo of Sophie at a horseback riding lesson when she was little, plus several of our farm/animal fabrics in stock now, including digital panel prints.
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Travel Calendar:
May 18 – 24 – Saint Louis & NYC
June 13-14 – Quilt Canada Festival in Toronto
June 19-21 – Cleveland – Fresh Quilting
July 30 – Intl Quilt Trends lecture at San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Aug 12 – Festival of Quilts, Birmingham UK
Sept 16 – Quilters Take Manhattan
Oct – New Zealand Quilt Festival
Dec 29 2017 – Jan 5 2018 – Tanzania Africa
Wildlife Migration Tour – Limited Spaces
Feb 22-25, 2018 – QuiltCon – Pasadena, California
