The Poignant Love Story of David and Beth ending in Four Colorful Bereavement Quilts
Love Story Beth met David online just as both of them were about to give up. David was a widower and Beth had never married. Being taller than average, Beth [...]
Bereavement Quilts Honoring Wilson North
Wilson North - Patricia's husband Patricia sent me a large box of her husband Wilson North's clothes over a year ago. She wanted bereavement quilts for many people in [...]
Kaffe Fassett’s Haze Kilim Quilt made as a Bereavement Quilt
Kaffe Fassett Pattern For years my favorite Kaffe Fassett quilt has been his wonderful Haze Kilim quilt, shown below as it is seen in his book, Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts [...]
Memory Mural made with Ben’s T-Shirts
My First Mural This past December I had the pleasure of making my first Memory Mural at the request of Debby, Ben's mother. She wanted a long narrow quilt to [...]
Story of a Typical Bereavement Quilt
What's Different about a Bereavement Quilt? I live in the Northwest and I make bereavement quilts. I fell into making them by accident when I [...]
A Double Diamond Quilt Variation – Made with Dad’s Clothes
Bereavement Quilt using Kaffe Fassett's Double Diamond Pattern with Dad's clothes Double Diamond Quilt Variation By using men's clothes in this bereavement quilt, I was introducing a [...]
Scrapbook Memory Quilt
Scrapbook Idea Above is my latest quilt - a scrapbook memory quilt - which I made from the clothes and memorabilia of a wonderful husband for his wife. Many [...]
Memory Quilt – Bluebell Woods of England
Memory Quilt honoring mother with depiction of the Bluebell Woods of England Why are Bluebell Woods of England important? Jan told me her mother grew up in England [...]
Unique Memory Quilt – Surfer Girl
Unique Memory Quilt - Surfer Quilt Alice loved her father, but his having been raised in America by Chinese parents with strict traditional values of hard work, he could [...]
Memory Quilt for Grieving Grandparents
Bereavement quilt for grandparents of two-year-old Alexie June Loss of a young child is devastating. After the grieving grandparents of Alexie June learned of her accidental death, it [...]
Bereavement Quilt for Nursing Home
Quilt made for the Sanatoga Center in Pottstown, Pennsylvania to honor those who have passed away. Nursing Home Quilt The quilt above was commissioned by the residents of [...]
Seascape Bereavement Quilt – The Anatomy of a Pictorial Quilt
Seascape bereavement quilt made from his amazing mother's clothes My most recent pictorial quilt was a departure for me in that my customer had definite ideas of what [...]
Customer Satisfaction
This picture could be captioned "A Girl with her Quilt". I think it expresses the joy that a person gets from a quilt of their own, whether it be a [...]
Three T-Shirt Quilts for Mother and Daughters
In the previous blog, I discussed log cabin bereavement quilts made from a young man's cotton shirts and trousers. Cheryl's husband Eric took pride in his clothes, but he was [...]
Log Cabin Bereavement Quilts for Mother and Daughters
Recently I made three log cabin quilts for a mother and her two daughters from her husband/their father's clothes. The one above is for the mother and is a full-size [...]