Last week, we went outside with Jean Wells, and now we’re going to England with Shiela Betterton. I have to admit, I didn’t know about Shiela before I started volunteering at the Hall of Fame. But now that I know her, I feel we would have been kindred spirits—both accidental volunteers, and both taken up…
It’s a rainy day here and I wouldn’t be outside even without the stay-at-home order. So it’s a good day for a “visit” with Jean Wells. Honoree Jean Wells Keenan has a birthday coming up on Saturday (May 23rd). Wish her a happy day on her Facebook page. You may know her as the founder…
I often think that, had I enjoyed a wider world view when I was young, I would have come to quilts much earlier than I did. As a 1950s child of the steel mill area of Chicago’s South Side, I knew no one who had quilts—it was chenille spreads for us . And I certainly…
How many of you were quilting while Helen Kelley’s column, “Loose Threads,” appeared in Quilters Newsletter magazine? I always felt like I was visiting with a good neighbor when I read her musings, and apparently many others did too because she successfully marketed three separate book collections of her articles. But after reading her Honoree…
