Tradition Carried On!

Nellie Stanfield (front, next to Lee Stanfield)...my Great Grandmother on my Mother's side of the family.  She died a week after I was born in July 1950.  My Grandmother is the one on the far right of the picture. 

Postage Stamp quilt pattern made with scraps of 1930's fabrics.

All hand stitched.  

Michelle's first quilt top. 

One of my quilts, next to Great Grandma Stanfield's.  

I got a surprise text from Michelle about a month ago, asking if she could come home for the weekend for a " quilting lesson".  It made my heart smile!  In all the years that Michelle has been sewing, she didn't show an interest in quilting.  It made me so happy that she wants to carry on the family tradition now.  My great grandmother quilted, along with my Mom. ( I have a quilt that my great grandmother made all by hand, hanging in my hallway)  I thought it was going to stop with me.  It was really easy to teach Michelle because all I had to do was give her a couple little tips when it comes to piecing a quilt top.  She had a non stop sewing marathon that weekend.  She finished her quilt top in 1 1/2 days!!!  She is hooked!!!  She already has picked out another quilt to make.  I wish she was going to come home for the weekend every time she makes a quilt now but there is no need.  She knows what she is doing or can figure it out without me.  I will treasure this "first quilt weekend" forever.  One of those memories that gets put down in my journal and blog. Now I can go to Quilt Guild and tell everyone that the tradition will be carried on.  It will make the Ladies happy.