tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62882589568189135642024-02-18T21:02:09.825-05:00Where the Corners meetRuminations about quilting and life by a life long plyer of the trade.Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-54212479187434705342022-07-12T12:06:00.001-04:002022-07-12T12:06:56.171-04:00Three quilts and a life lesson I will never forget
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on April 27, 2014 at 10:28pm
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Right after my college graduation in 2005 (I was 50 years old - it took me 32 years to get my degree in History!) I was hired as the Executive Director of the Ligonier Valley Historical Society. Fancy title, hellish job. It was a very good thing to do for three years although it took everything out of me. The Society has a 1799 Stagecoach stop museum called Compass Inn and we did living history, candlelight tours, school tours, fundraising events, you name it we did it with a staff of two and a handful of volunteers. Each year was a holiday event called the Festival of Lights. We held a silent auction and for three years 2005, 2006 and 2008, I made a Christmas quilt to be auctioned off. The first from 2005 is above.
The second year, 2006, my daughter Becky did the cross stitch for this beauty. The theme was sweaters and mittens. I am really sorry this one got away from me because it was spectacular.
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In 2007, I did not make them a quilt as my daughter, Jamie was getting married and I was too busy. In 2008 I did however and it turned out to be my last year there as director. Good thing too. I was tired. The board and I were not agreeing on the direction for the society and it was time to go. I had started looking for a new job in October while working on this quilt and announced my departure after the Festival of Lights was ended. Here is the third quilt.
Now this quilt has an interesting story, and a fitting end to the saga of Ginnie and the LVHS. Things had gotten pretty rocky at the office - the board knew I was unhappy and frustrated. Becky did the cross stitch again on this quilt and as you can see, there is alot of white fabric. The texture on this one is a mix of satin and corduroy. It is just beautiful. I tell you these details because of what happens next. At the opening night of the Festival of LIghts when the auction items, including this quilt are displayed for the crowd to peruse, someone spills red wine on the white border and does not tell anyone. As soon as the night is over, I discover the spreading burgundy stain and totally lose it. All efforts to remove the stain are in vain so I pulled the quilt from the auction which made me even more popular! I have always wondered if the spill was vandalism. I gave the quilt to Becky as a thank you for all her hard work and we have both decided the stain is just part of its story (a pink stain now).
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Lesson learned? Never, ever give away your joy, your creativity, your talent to someone(s) who will not appreciate and treasure it. The funny footnote to the story is that two people kept bidding on the quilt after it was withdrawn and the winner (who also won the 2006 quilt) was so upset that she could not take it home. Did she not notice it was gone, missing, vamoosed?
Sure wish I had that 2006 one though....
Gin
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-58429377001215474282022-07-12T11:59:00.001-04:002022-07-12T11:59:31.165-04:00Time for another quilt project - this time it's documentation
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on May 10, 2014 at 11:00pm
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Any of you who check into my site will notice that I am posting quite a few new quilt pictures and creating new albums. Some of them are from the very early days of my quilting life, such as this one from 1975, a quilt I made for my mom and is in fact, the very first quilt I ever quilted. I must not have thought much of the quilting process however, because I went back to tying for several years! And the quilting on this is pretty atrocious!
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When my parents moved into a senior living community a few years back, Mom gave me back this quilt so it has come home so to speak. She must not have used it much because it is in very good shape. Ironically, my signature on the back is only half sewn, I will have to finish that!
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This was long before I had a fabric stash and I was making quilts from scraps of fabric I had left over from making clothes. I distinctly remember some of the items I made with fabric in this quilt!
So, I have been gathering information on all the quilts I have made. I have at least one picture of all of them except #20, which I recorded a long time ago as a baby quilt for a Jennifer Nightingale (Jennifer, if you are out there, send me a photo!) and I know it has three baby ducks on it. That's all I know though. I sincerely cannot remember it at all. My old photo books of my quilts were up to date until #86 or so from my pre-Pennsylvania days or 1997 or so. I had pictures of all the others, just not very well organized. Some were traditional paper photos, some were digital and I got it into my head that I would try to get digital photos of all 141 (yes, 141!) quilts that I had made. A big goal but I was charged up for it.
So, I gathered all the digital photos and compiled my list. I identified which ones I did not have digital photos on and if I knew who had them and where they currently were. Then I turned to my facebook friends and started calling in quilt favors. I sent messages to all the owners or their heirs and asked them to send me digital photos of the full front of the quilt, the back where any signature, date, or dedication is, and a few detail shots. And the pictures have started coming in!
Prior to 2000, I was making 5 x 7 prints of all the finished quilts so I started printing the digital photos I had as 5 x 7's (a small fortune was spent) and my book is almost complete. I purchased two new photo albums with archival paper and created an blank information card to be filled out on each quilt. So far I have two done. In the process of getting all the quilt records together, I discovered I had mis-numbered the quilts. So there are several places in the list where a number will be repeated with a letter B and sometimes C. I tried to make this work where it made sense, like quilts that went to brothers and sisters. Even though the current quilt I am working on is #133, there are 8 more after it if everyone is to have a unique number, but they were actually made prior to #133. Very confusing.
I am not a patient woman but I am willing to wait a few more weeks before sending out 2nd reminders on some of the folks who owe me pictures. One of the most interesting requests for photos went to my prior fiancee who got a gorgeous Norman Rockwell Santa quilt. My daughters are still friendly with him and in fact friends with him on facebook so Becky agreed to ask him for the pictures. We will see if he complies. We did not split amicably. Deep sigh. Oh well. And the funny thing is, he gave me the quilt back. I should have kept it but it found its way to him again. Hope he didn't torch it...
I will end with a series of baby quilts I made for brothers and sisters, the digital pictures of which have found their way to me this past week. Thanks to all the folks who so willingly (and happily) supplied the photos, especially to Chuck Luebke and Sandy Taghon. You guys are the best!
The Luebke kids' (Beth, Kevin, and Caitlyn) quilts:
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The Taghon kids (Katie and Brian)'s quilts:
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and finally, the Masengarb kids (Jana and Karin)'s quilts:
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All these baby quilts have gotten me into the mood to make a few more small quilts. Good thing too as I will be gramma again in September, this time to a little girl.
Happy quilting!
Ginnie
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-89298002614588645722022-07-12T11:48:00.001-04:002022-07-12T11:48:13.006-04:00I'm back in the saddle again! Working on "Topography" with my cat buddy, Vinnie
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on June 26, 2014 at 11:41pm
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Loving how this quilt is coming together but I have run into a slight problem - it is too narrow. This is a wedding quilt for my "third" daughter, Artemis and her husband Tom and it is (at this time) 45 x 84 inches. I thought of adding a row of blocks down the right side. My husband suggested something sand colored so as not to take too much attention away from this "slice of earth and sky" I have created. While talking to my quilting daughter Becky on facebook tonight, she suggested I tilt it slightly and then make it square again with blockwork in the corners I will need to create to make it square. Since I am really trying to quilt outside the box with this one, that idea is appealing to me!
Here is a better picture, sans Vincenzo Gato.Time for bed. I will think about this "problem" for awhile and come up with a solution I am sure. Notice how the "earth layers" have shifted in the bottom print.
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Outside the box...outside the box....
Keep quilting!
Ginnie
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-69259843896306246252022-07-12T11:44:00.001-04:002022-07-12T11:44:37.083-04:00What a difference a year makes!
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on September 16, 2014 at 8:30pm
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Dear fellow quilters,
As you will recall, last year at this time I was frantically quilting the 15 Christmas quilts in my year long project and hardly had time to breathe, let alone do anything else. Well, 2014 has been radically different and as I look back on 2013, I am amazed at how different two years can be. This year I have been working on three different quilts and as the year winds down, I am wondering if I will finish any of them!
It has been a year of health challenges and I am sure that is the major reason for the slow down. In mid January, I had a foot surgery to alleviate the pain from arthritis in my right foot (called a mid foot fusion) and I learned to run the sewing machine pedal with my left foot. Actually, I was quilting the 15 Christmas quilts with the left foot most of last year as the right one was hurting pretty badly. I was off my foot for 13 weeks, both in a cast (or two) and a boot and finally was walking and driving by tax day, April 15.
The next excursion into Healthcare Land, or "man, it sucks to get old" is bilateral knee replacement on November 17 this year. Yep, you heard me right. I will have BOTH of my knees replaced at the same time two months from now. What fun. What a pleasure to look forward to. I will be out of work for 6 weeks. Right now I am in a physical training program to strengthen my thigh muscles so that rehab and recuperation will be easier (yeah, right.) so I have moved my bicycle up to the living room on its stationary stand, right in front of the TV. I will bicycle away everyday between now and the surgery date and do the same when I come home from rehab around Thanksgiving.
As you will remember, we have a multi-level old, old house so I will have to conquer the steps early in the game. I am so up for this because I know it will be no pain (or less) by Christmas. And that will be a real blessing.
In the meantime, I will keep working on my three quilts and riding my bike. My new granddaughter is due any day (one of the quilts is for her, a sunflower baby quilt with the lyrics to "you are my sunshine") so I will look forward to a speedy trip to California by the end of the month to meet her. Life is so full.
Take care, my friends and we will talk again soon!
Ginnie
PS: this is the center of the Sunflower quilt. I found the embroidered sunflowers on a pair of pants at the local Goodwill. I wore the pants once and then cut them up for the quilt!
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Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-3865952286895428852022-07-12T11:39:00.004-04:002022-07-12T11:40:51.421-04:00Another cross stitch quilt is added to the Allmendinger women family collection
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on October 24, 2014 at 11:30pm
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The fourth in an apparently on-going series, here is the Thanksgiving cross stitch quilt all finished as of tonight. My sweetheart hubby is in New Orleans at a philosophy conference so I have been sewing buttons on like a crazy woman the last two nights and watching epic movies. It is finally done. We started this one many years ago, if fact, the cross stitch squares were originally intented to be an autumn quilt but my girls and I did so many, we got three quilts out of the effort. Here are the cross stitch quilts we have made so far:
#1 - the Original cross stitch quilt begun in 1985 and finished in 2002, Christmas:
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#2 - the Halloween quilt, finished in 2008:
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and #3 the apples and school quilt,, finished in 2009:Becky and I have also made several baby quilts with cross stitching, in fact the baby quilt I am working on right now for my new granddaughter, Ruby Charlotte will have two cross stitched borders done by Becky, but these four quilts are exclusively cross stitch, both blocks and borders. That's a heck of a lot of cross stitching and most of it done by Becky!
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One last cross stitch quilt series of pictures as a pictorial survey of how time can change us as well as our quilting. Here I am with cross stitch quilts 1, 2, and 3. I don't spend too much time looking in the mirror each day but I have come to the conclusion that as I get older, time is making more changes to me at a faster rate!
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and here I am tonight. Oh vey!
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What will the next cross stitch quilt theme be? No clue. Waiting for my daughters to tell me!
Happy Quilting everyone!
Ginnie
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-15811827158853775572022-07-12T11:01:00.001-04:002022-07-12T11:01:08.106-04:00Life with new knees and other miscellany
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on December 13, 2014 at 1:22pm
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It's the end of week four after double knee replacement surgery and things are going pretty well. I am making progress and even getting some sewing done. Above is the Christmas stocking I just finished today for new granddaughter Ruby Charlotte who is almost three months old already. I will get it off in the mail to her Monday, arriving in time for Christmas and St. Nick.
I am also getting some work done on Topography, which is possibility Artemis and Tom's wedding quilt. So things progress. I have not gotten much of Christmas out this year except for the Christmas quilts and pillows. Here is our feline companion, Vinnie, resting on the heat register on one of my Christmas quilts. Merry Christmas everyone!
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Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on August 1, 2015 at 12:50am
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She's 10 months old and has gorgeous blue eyes and a no nonsense attitude. That's my Ruby Charlotte. I finished her quilt in April but never got around to writing this post so here I am on Blue Moon night, unable to sleep and typing away.
I first went outside and snapped a few pictures of the gorgeous blue moon and then a few dozen of my porch at night. In the summertime, the porches extend the house by a couple rooms. The front is wide open while the back is screened (great for late night reading and no bugs bothering me). A neighborhood cat whom we feed (we call him "Ghost" or "the old guy") sleeps on the back porch and I am always trying to catch him out there. No luck yet. Anyway, here is my favorite rocking spot by night.
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And lastly, here is Ruby's quilt, the original subject of this post. Sorry I got a little distracted there. It must be the blue moon!
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Lots of pictures in my albums. I should finish the next quilt, Topography this week and then it is on to the next new Granddaughter's quilt. Sylvia Reagan was born 2 months ago to my quilting daughter, Becky and her husband Todd.
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Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-63996493633878371572022-07-12T10:52:00.000-04:002022-07-12T10:52:21.339-04:00Big News on the Leiner homefront and a new quilt, this time for me.
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on August 31, 2015 at 11:37pm
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Things have been happening around here and they have kept me so busy that I have not had time to either blog or quilt so this weekend, I decided it was time to change that and started this delightful flower quilt for me. It is really rare when I make a quilt for myself but I think I am gonna keep this one. Here's the story.
Back in 1996, I decided to remodel and update my home in East Moline, Illinois. I was not looking to sell or anything. Things were just in need of repair and sprucing up so I redid the kitchen, living room, and bedrooms with new flooring, new woodwork (a beautiful oak rail and staircase, hidden under carpeting for years!) and new living room furniture, bought on Labor Day sale at Montgomery Wards, remember them? Anyway, I also redid all the bedding and the decorative pillows in all the rooms. I bought six flower pillows at JC Penneys and found a matching one later at some yard sale or thrift shop. I was lookin' good!
Fast forward almost 20 years, I now live in Pennsylvania, I still have the chair from the living room furniture and its matching ottoman and most of the bedroom furniture, all the bedding and YES! the flower pillows but they were starting to show some wear on the back side. So I ripped them apart and found an eighth one on ebay, added a sunflower tapestry runner and some very colorful fabric and voila! a quilt top. On the back side of the quilt, I decided to use one of a set of curtains I had with tulips on them and for batting, a not so old but no longer being used mattress pad/cover. So since the majority of the fabrics were something else in a previous life, I decided to name this one, "My Recycled Garden, Summer 2015." I am almost done with the quilting, will probably finish it this week, just in time for the quilt appraiser to arrive on Sunday and appraise all my quilts.
Why, you ask, is she having all her quilts appraised? Well, first off, it is a good idea for insurance purposes. But secondly (and this is the Big News), I need to have them appraised for the quilt show I have been asked to mount come November 2015 thru May 2016. Yep. This amateur hour quilt momma has been given a show, a solo show, a real life gallery show in a real life gallery. Gulp. Deep breath.
I will post the official announcement postcard when it is printed and if any of you would like one, please let me know and I will send one off. It is such a long show that we are mounting 20 of myholiday quilts, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas from November 12, 2015 - January 22, 2016 then we will go dark for a week while we mount 20 of my non-holiday quilts February 1 - May 22, 2016. Little did I know how much paperwork is involved in this: permission slips, pre-appraisal questionaires, descriptions for the gallery. Words, words, words. I was sick of talking about quilts and desperate to make one.
Off to bed now. Rest up you all and we will talk soon!
Happy Quilting!
Ginnie
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Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on October 18, 2015 at 6:40pm
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First, the postcards came out for the quilt show which is less than a month away. Yikes!
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Secondly,I finished the beading on Topography so it is officially done!
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Thirdly, I made two Halloween pillows after failing to find what I liked on-line or in the stores. I also worked 40+ hours at the Museum (Grand Reopening next weekend!), cleaned my house (ugh!) sewed a strip of velcro on a 150 year old coverlet for the museum, went on two movie dates with my sweetie spouse (Bridge of Spies and The Martian, both excellent!) and battled the erratically operating security alarm on my car that keeps going off in the middle of the night (my neighbors love me).
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What I did not get done was work on the quilt sleeves and text panels for the McCarl Gallery show so now I am behind. Oh woe. I will work on that tonight and try to catch up. Five sleeves to go and a good idea on the panels. Life is good!
Ginnie
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Two Holiday Pillows and a quilt show opening
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on November 8, 2015 at 11:29pm
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Hello all:
I have been keeping myself busy with little projects in this time before the quilt show opens. Here are my two newest creations:
The Thanksgiving pillow is a Moda print and the needlepoint in the center of the Santa pillow is a repurposed Christmas stocking that I found at a local thrift store.
I delivered 22 holiday quilts to the McCarl Gallery on Wednesday this week. My house seems unusually quiet and empty without them. They all had new sleeves sewn on them and their text panels and such were all written. I had to do an artist statement and a bio, both really weird things to write. The show opens on Thursday this week and I am feeling very numb about it. I still can't quite believe a gallery would want to show my work. I am thrilled, petrified and confused. Right, just about normal, I would say!
Daughter Becky arrives Thursday for the weekend to see the show and is bringing our newest granddaughter, Sylvia who is now 6 months old. Becky, as you will remember, is my cross stitching, tee shirt quilt making, co-conspiring quilt project kid. We will have three fun days of museums, shopping, eating, more shopping. Several fabric stores will be visited. Can't wait. Plus I get to spoil that beautiful baby!
Off to bed now. I will post more after the show opens. Yikes! Here is my bio:
Born and raised in East Moline, Illinois, Ginnie Allmendinger Leiner moved to Southwestern Pennsylvania in 2000 to marry her husband and live happily ever after. She is the mother of two wonderful daughters and the grandmother of three over the top grandchildren. She and her husband, George Leiner live in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in a rambling old house, complete with sitting porches, rocking chairs, and a cat named Vinnie.
Simply stated, her quilt philosophy is that there are no rules in quilting and no limits except those imposed by your imagination. She believes a little black in every quilt is appropriate as quilting, like life, needs the dark to help us appreciate the light. Ginnie also believes that documenting your quilt is an important final step, as quilts represent women’s untold history.
Ginnie was sewing clothes long before she ever considered making quilts. Her first quilt was made at age 18 as a child bride, out of scraps from clothing she had made. Although her great grandmother and grandmother were quilters, Ginnie is basically self-taught. Her quilting heros are Jinny Beyer and Liza Prior Lucy To date she has made 143 quilts with countless ones planned for the future. Her major quilt accomplishment was a series (2013 – The Year of the Christmas Quilt) of fifteen (15) Christmas quilts made for her family members in 2013. She feels her personal best is her daughter Jamie’s wedding quilt, Road to California, made in 2012 and her current quilting goal is to imagine and executed more quilts outside the box of traditional quilting, as shown in her most recently finished quilt, Topography of a Marriage. Most of her quilts are given away to the people in her life she values.
Professionally, Ginnie is the Membership and Development Coordinator of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. She holds a BA in History from Saint Vincent College and while she loves her museum life, she is counting the years until retirement, when she will be able to quilt full time and travel at whim.
Ginnie
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Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-15721517311556755482022-07-12T10:40:00.002-04:002022-07-12T10:40:48.694-04:00It's almost game day! Quilt Show opening tomorrow!
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on November 11, 2015 at 9:03pm
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http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/17343/09/svc-mccarl-gallery-prese...
Here is an article about the quilt show. Wish me luck!
SVC McCarl Gallery present ‘Changing Seasons’ quilt exhibit
November 9, 2015 WT A&E, Exhibits, Family, Lifestyle, Local, News
Ginnie Leiner with a stack of her Christmas quilts
LATROBE, PA — The Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery at the Fred M. Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College will present the first part of a two part exhibition, “Changing Seasons: The Quilts of Ginnie Allmendinger Leiner,” from Thursday, Nov. 12, to Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. The first part of the exhibition will feature 22 holiday-themed quilts. An opening reception with the artist is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.
- See more at: http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/17343/09/svc-mccarl-gallery-prese...
Ginnie
SVC McCarl Gallery present ‘Changing Seasons’ quilt exhibit
November 9, 2015 WT A&E, Exhibits, Family, Lifestyle, Local, News
Ginnie Leiner with a stack of her Christmas quilts
LATROBE, PA — The Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery at the Fred M. Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College will present the first part of a two part exhibition, “Changing Seasons: The Quilts of Ginnie Allmendinger Leiner,” from Thursday, Nov. 12, to Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. The first part of the exhibition will feature 22 holiday-themed quilts. An opening reception with the artist is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.
- See more at: http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/17343/09/svc-mccarl-gallery-prese...
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-74948128880664110342022-07-12T10:35:00.000-04:002022-07-12T10:35:02.088-04:00I walk, I talk, I push creativity!
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on December 8, 2015 at 5:43pm
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The gallery show has been up for about a month now and last week, Saint Vincent College (where the McCarl Coverlet Gallery is located) did an alumni spotlight video of me. Here it is! I hope you enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8fHCGEV37s&feature=youtu.be
Now back to sewing on sleeves on the quilts for the second half of the show beginning February 2, 2016!
Happy Holidays!
GinnieStill quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-33384551010347464742022-07-12T10:26:00.001-04:002022-07-12T10:34:16.335-04:00Creativity is striking and I cannot sleep
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on December 12, 2015 at 1:30am
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Christmas is fast approaching and all of my family are telling me they are missing their Christmas quilts which I borrowed back for the quilt show. If you are interested, here is another article on the quilt show.
https://archive.triblive.com/news/quilter-to-display-work-in-holiday-themed-exhibit/
In the midst of the quilt show work, I have been struck by the creativity bug and I cannot sleep tonight. I bought my first pieces of digitally printed fabric and I am so excited. Here are swatches of the fabric for the next quilt which I think will be the wedding quilt for daughter #2 Becky and Todd, even though they have picked out different fabric. I will make that quilt for them later. I have fabric up in the attic that I know will go with these two but I do not want to wake up the sleeping husband to go tromping around above his head. It will have to wait til morning, I guess. Deep sigh.
I am going to try doing something very outside the box again with both the front and the back on this quilt. I'll post more details as they development.
In the meantime, I am still stitching sleeves on the 19 quilts for the second half of the show. I have yet to come up with a means to describe this next bunch of quilts. For the Holiday Quilts, I used "Steps to Make a Holiday Quilt" and talked about the different parts of quiltmaking while describing each quilt. Not sure what my schtick will be this next time. I don't have to have that part done til January 22 so I have a bit of time yet.
Well I guess I will try to catch some shut eye. I had a snack and thought some more about my project so it should have calmed my brain down a bit!
Goodnight to you all and Merry Holiday Quilting!
GinnieStill quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-9059841726660296432022-07-12T10:23:00.000-04:002022-07-12T10:23:08.975-04:00He went home for Christmas
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on December 31, 2015 at 4:53pm
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It is with profound sadness that I write to tell you of the death of my father, Gene Edward Long, 82, who died peacefully in his sleep in the early morning hours of December 23, 2015. He will be sorely missed by his family and friends.
Rest in peace, Daddy-o.Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-44868601812236127842022-07-12T10:08:00.001-04:002022-07-12T10:08:29.699-04:00New Technology and winning the quilt lottery
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on February 18, 2016 at 10:30pm
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Hello Campers! Back at it again after a short hiatus. Life set me back abit between my father's passing and all the family visits this winter. I visited daughter Becky and granddaughter Sylvia in early February and daughter Jamie and grandson Wyatt were out here in Pennsylvania this week. Good times all around but I am glad to be back to spending time in my quilt studio.
Quite unscheduled, I am making a quilt for someone I do not know. Here is the story. Never wanting to become a dinosaur in the real world, I am often convinced to try new technology. This fall, October specifically, I joined i-phone nation and broke down and bought a new cell phone. I did it because face timing with the kids and the grandkids was so much fun.
I was learning how to use my phone on the busiest day of my museum career, the Grand Re-opening of The Westmoreland where I am employed, October 24, 2015. The museum had been temporarily relocated for two years while a new wing was added and the original portion of the building was renovated. We were throwing a gigantic party that night and I was running all over getting things done.
My high school girlfriend, Margie Trousil, texted me on this very busy day and asked if I would make a baby quilt for one of her college students (she teaches nursing in Fort Madison, Iowa). Not sure how to respond as I really wasn't making quilts outside of my lists, I put the phone away for awhile and got on with the day. When I looked at it again, I had somehow given her the "thumbs up" symbol and she was thrilled, absolutely thrilled that I had agreed to do the quilt.
What? I agreed? So anyway, she had to wait five plus months until the quilt show was going before I even started it. Given the other quilts I am supposed to be working on (Becky and Todd's wedding quilt, Sylvia's baby quilt, Christmas quilts for both of my granddaughters, and 2 wedding quilts for two nieces and nephews), I decided this needed to be the quickest quilt ever and that meant nine patch. I wanted to use batiks so I found 72 different batik fabrics in my stash (I am so embarrassed to have that many!) and threw this little cutie together. I will finish it with a border and off it will go to Iowa, the land of corn and incidentally, where I was born.
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I guess you could say these students of Margie won the quilt lottery. So what are you working on?
Technologically challenged, I remain,
Yours in quilting,
Ginnie
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-16124704662609960732022-07-12T09:52:00.002-04:002022-07-12T09:52:48.355-04:00Yak, yak, yakking about quilts and looking like my mother
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on March 14, 2016 at 8:08pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmaSTtsYcmU
We are a few weeks into the second half of my quilt show and here is the youtube video from the second half. I talk about two quilts in particular, Mosaic Wedding Quilt which belongs to my nephew and neice-in-law in Oak Park Illinois and Topography of a Marriage, the lastest wedding quilt for Tom and Artemis Vasilou, my unofficial third daughter. Here they are:
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If you missed the first video, here it is too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8fHCGEV37s ; In both of them, I look incredibly like my mother! Here she is!
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You just cannot escape genetics!
Happy quilting!
Ginnie
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-61488407886408759492022-07-11T20:25:00.001-04:002022-07-11T20:25:15.596-04:00What do you do when you are stymied about one quilt you are making? Make another one instead!
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on April 30, 2016 at 8:23pm
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Hello Campers! Welcome to spring and are you all busy on your quilt projects? I am supposed to be working on my 2nd Daughter, Becky's wedding quilt (they will be married five years next weekend - I am a bit behind) and it has been a challenge from the get-go. We picked out the fabric last spring during a visit to her house in Plano, Texas. Here are the fabrics:Not feeling inspired about this collection AT ALL, I started making her another quilt with another fabric color palette that looked like the hike I took in Yosemite this past Easter weekend with Daughter #1 Jamie and her family - very outdoorsy prints, trees, rocks, water (see previous blog post about digital printed fabric). Everything was hunky dory until in conversation with Jamie I heard myself saying to her, "I can't imagine Becky taking this hike (in a National Park -that's not her thing) like we are." when it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks that the natural theme quilt was more suited to Jamie than Becky and I was making the wrong quilt for that daughter.
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Back to the drawing board.
So I puzzled over the fabric and came up with a few blocks but I couldn't figure out how to make them work together. The black cool palette did not work with the warm browns. Frustrated, I put it all away and decided to make a quickie quilt for a wedding we attended today for two of my husband's former students, of which the bride was our tenant in one of our rental houses, Courtney and Matthew. Here it is below.
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I am calling this quilt "Home Furnishings" because the center is from a sample pack of upholstery material that I found at a local thrift store. The border is wide wale corduroy and the back is faux suede. None of it the cottons I am used to working with. I embellished the quilt with warm autumn colored glass beads about the size of a pea and embroidered the couple's name and wedding date on the reverse. All done in a week. The beads took the longest time, all hand sewn. My message to the happy couple told them that the blocks in the center represent the stability and foundation of marriage. The randomly placed glass beads represent chaos, change and challenge (also all a part of marriage) and the stars in the heavens above.
So now that is done and I must go back to the challenging wedding quilt. The pattern in the book that this is based on calls it "She Runs Hot and Cold" but that may be the name of the quilt. Certainly not an appropriate name for a wedding quilt! We will call it the working title...
Anyway, I am sure I will figure this conundrum out, eventually!
What are you working on?
Best,
GinnieStill quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-40685924424643281052022-07-11T20:18:00.003-04:002022-07-11T20:20:59.521-04:00A Christmas quilt done in time for Halloween
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on October 31, 2016 at 12:30am
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I know I have been incommunicato for awhile but I have been busy quilting! Here is the most recent quilt I finished just tonight, a few scant hours before Halloween. No, you are not crazy, this is a Christmas quilt. Sometimes, we just don't get to choose the timing of when things get accomplished.
The pattern is your basic log cabin with cross stitched Christmas motifs in the center. The left side and upper borders are also log cabin, arranged in the lightening strike pattern while the right side and lower borders are plain strips of fabric with buttons, enameled coconut buttons to be exact which click and clack like castenets. All the buttons are sewn on but the largest buttons are also tied with 1/8 inch satin double ribbons.
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As you may know, I like to say that every quilt tells a story. This story is four generations in the making. When I was a child, my father's mother, my Gramma Long, made the most wonderful gingersnap cookies. My grandparents had a lake home in The Lake of the Ozarks region in Missouri near Camdenton and I remember my granddad spreading real butter on them and eating them by the dozen in the summer time. Yes, his physique resembled Santa's and no one was really worried about heart failure back then (we should have been though). My mother, Marian Long was a great baker and she took up the tradition, making the gingersnaps every Christmas. She would make a gazillion cookies of many different kinds and freeze them in Folgers coffee cans until a day that only she knew when we could start eating the Christmas cookies. I made the gingersnaps for and with my daughters, Jamie and Becky, when they were young and they are now making them for their children and husbands. The beat (and the batter) goes on! I actually made a batch today!
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So the back of the quilt tells the story as usual. I have put the only picture I could find of my gramma and I in the kitchen together with a bunch of other folks, and pictures of my three grands, Wyatt, Ruby and Sylvia. Check out the other photos of this quilt in my albums if you like.
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There is a certain high I always get when I finish a quilt and this one is no different. It is 12:30 now and the hubby has been asleep two hours. I should join him I guess but I am wired. Probably too many cookies...
And here is the Halloween quilt, just so you are assured I am not totally loony. Happy haunting (and quilting)!
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Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-40763002666076538642022-07-11T20:13:00.002-04:002022-07-11T20:13:30.588-04:00By popular demand, the Cross Stitch Halloween quilt reprised.
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on November 1, 2016 at 11:30pm
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My quilting friend, Riana Noyes asked me to do a post on the Halloween cross stitch quilt which is #108 in my albums. The following are pictures and some explanations/descriptions of how that quilt came to be.
First the back story. I have been quilting since I was 18 years old. I had my first child, Jamie at 23 and my second, Becky at 27. All through their childhood, I was making quilts and once upon a time, cross stitching as well. in 1984 or 85 I decided to do a Christmas quilt in an attic window pattern. I cross stitched away for 16 years and with primarily Becky's help, finished it in 2002. When I took it home to Illinois to show to the girls (I was living in Pennsylvania by this time) they admired it a great deal and eventually someone got around to asking who would inherit it. I remember laughing and telling them that was their problem. I would be long gone.
So just before George and I got in the car to drive home after the weekend visit was over, my daughters inform me that I can solve the dilemna by making another cross stitch quilt. I laughed all the way home through eight hours of driving from Illinois to Pennsylvania. I was still laughing a few days later when I agreed to the crazy plan to make another cross stitch quilt, provided they would help out. Little did we know how the whole scheme would carry us on a quilting journey that spanned 12 years and would mushroom into four quilts.
So here is the Christmas quilt (#103 in my albums) that started the entire rigamarole!
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and here is the Halloween quilt that was the result of two sisters who wanted quilt parity after mother dear, the quilter, was gone.
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Most of these pictures were taken at a quilt show in a local church. I was so pleased they allowed the viewers to touch if they wore gloves, since my quilts are often two sided. Here it is hanging in the church. Now some close up pictures.
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The close up of the center shows the variety of cross stitched blocks made by my daughters and I. The Christmas cross stitch quilt had been very regular and regimented, evenly laid out. We wanted to be more irregular with Halloween since it is a holiday that is prone to craziness! We made the cross stitch squares over a period of five years. By the time we were ready to start the quilt, we had enough squares to make three quilts and we DID eventually make three quilts: Halloween, School and Apples, and Thanksgiving.
There are three cross stitched borders, candy corn, words (Eek! Boo! Yikes!) and cats and pumpkins, all mostly done by my youngest daughter, Becky Newcomer. She did the majority of the cross stitched blocks as well with me contributing maybe a dozen and her sister less than that. She is fantastic.
A word about the sheep button in the lower right corner. When Becky and I were shopping for the 200 buttons we put on this quilt, we ran across this very cute sheep button and one of us said something like, "Oh look, it is the Halloween sheep" and we laughed and bought it and ever since then we have put a sheep button on every quilt that we have made that has cross stitching on it.
My girls and I have always liked poetry as well as quilting and cross stitch. On a quilt for my husband I made in 2000 (Benny's quilt #100 in my albums), I wrote a poem about a dog, Benny who had died in 1998. When we gave away the 15 Christmas quilts in 2013, we did it with poetry. And on the back of this quilt, you will find Becky's poetry that tells the story of the quilt. Gotta get those stories and quilts permanently together. We aren't going to be here forever, you know.
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As you can see, the quilt was finished in 2008, 6 years after the Christmas quilt. Both Becky and my names are on it. It is a very special quilt to me because it was the vehicle by which Becky and I mended our estranged relationship but that is a story for another time.
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Check out my albums for the other two quilts from the cross stitching extravaganza. Becky owns the Apple and School quilt (#110 in my albums) as she is a 5th grade science teacher in the Dallas Texas school district
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and as I write this tonight, November 1, I am sitting on a couch draped with the Thanksgiving quilt (#117 in my albums), which I finished just days before having both of my knees replaced on November 17, 2014. It's hard to keep a good quilter down!
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Enjoy!
Ginnie
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-48588402922557787562022-07-11T20:02:00.003-04:002022-07-11T20:02:37.422-04:00Making Progress, Making Pillows
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on November 28, 2016 at 10:44pm
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Hello fellow quilting fanatics. This has been a very busy month around the Leiner household. We sold one rental house and bought two more so I have been kept from my quilting by landlady duties. But I am happy to report that I am making progress on the quilt for Beck and Todd, the quilt that has stymied me all year, and am to the point of putting the border on the black side. I say "black side" because color distinction is how I have solved my conundrum over this quilt. In my pointy little quilting head, black and brown DO NOT go together, they do not belong in the same quilt but this is what the daughter has chosen, so this is what she shall have!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmAH2cdzFzTMmIa-5k8MeATPCrkOOQhSzfEZEceyHFgNAcbvCqDZrCv58_cewO9GX3CVJocKjJVAMGAftfkdaOwLNi2swvMNx3AKKKTq2QXLbWjbQqzI13_18cWsvx_FiZ6bn54bzn9uPecFlTs4SwqbgszdnQ-y7JlgdN0KzRWNnUm-ku72e_zxQ5Q/s1991/IMG_1327.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1493" data-original-width="1991" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmAH2cdzFzTMmIa-5k8MeATPCrkOOQhSzfEZEceyHFgNAcbvCqDZrCv58_cewO9GX3CVJocKjJVAMGAftfkdaOwLNi2swvMNx3AKKKTq2QXLbWjbQqzI13_18cWsvx_FiZ6bn54bzn9uPecFlTs4SwqbgszdnQ-y7JlgdN0KzRWNnUm-ku72e_zxQ5Q/s320/IMG_1327.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-k7M-HEfDSaknJOt-4im2QlHro0HAVVGolZV0p3OlsXQ9ZWtXzM-bYHJliN7P8b1-17BCxNMEQm0TEZpea3QDZ1mJp035xau38utKeRwnbRQ3cJeoj2Bcryl0x2zi3UoZ1qRAmQCWmqVzzO-UT2brWYLkIt4GZBCSTNtpwt3fERT3q8tNXggrd7IM3g/s2013/IMG_1328.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1509" data-original-width="2013" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-k7M-HEfDSaknJOt-4im2QlHro0HAVVGolZV0p3OlsXQ9ZWtXzM-bYHJliN7P8b1-17BCxNMEQm0TEZpea3QDZ1mJp035xau38utKeRwnbRQ3cJeoj2Bcryl0x2zi3UoZ1qRAmQCWmqVzzO-UT2brWYLkIt4GZBCSTNtpwt3fERT3q8tNXggrd7IM3g/s320/IMG_1328.JPG"/></a></div>
Side one picture here is made up of all the cool black and grey fabrics with the peach accents. There are fifteen 12 inch blocks on the top half of the quilt. The bottom half is plain fabric of a black, gray and brown (cringe!) print. Around the entire quilt will be the border picture below. I have finished the first six squares of the border and attached them to the top of the quilt.
This border block will also go around the bottom half of the quilt that is a continuous piece of fabric, no blockwork. I will show you that after I get some more done.
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On the reverse side will be the brown and golden tone fabrics in the same 12 inch block pattern, fifteen of them but they will be positioned on the bottom half of the quilt and a solid piece of coordinating brown fabric will make up the top half. A striped border of browns will serve as border; it will be the same width as this black and grey border block, but on the brown side. Here is a sample of the brown fabrics:
Now the tricky part: the quilting. I will line up the front and the back such that the pieced black half is backed by the brown one piece back and the brown pieced half is lined up with the black one piece front. Make sense? When I get it quilted, on the black side you will see the pieced half quilted (stitch in the ditch) and see the piecing but on the lower solid one piece of the black side, you will see the quilting of the blocks only, no piecing. Make sense? In other words, the black side is half front and half back and the brown side is likewise, half front and half back.
Can she pull it off? Time will tell. In the meantime, when the pressure gets to be too, too much (I want you to know this is REALLY outside the box for me!), make a Christmas pillow.
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Happy quilting!
Ginnie
Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-40094392611348830332022-07-11T19:58:00.001-04:002022-07-11T19:58:19.650-04:00A Wedding Quilt finished on Mother's Day
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on May 14, 2017 at 6:30pm
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"There is no remedy for love but to love more." (Thoreau); "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." (Andre Maurois); "Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards." (e.e. cummings)'; "All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love." (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace); "No one has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold." (Zelda Fitzgerald).
These are the five quotes about love and marriage I have monogrammed on the back of my daughter, Becky and her husband, Todd's wedding quilt. There should be one there about the long and winding road because this quilt has been a two year exodus. It began sometime in 2015 when Becky and I picked out fabric for her wedding quilt at the now defunct Hancock Fabric store in Plano, Texas where Becky and Todd live. As the main fabric, Becky chose a marbled gray, black and brown. We selected coordinating fabrics, some of them really wild and I took it all home with me to start the project.
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Soon enough though, I discovered I had a problem: the coordinating fabrics did not look well together. How could I have missed this? Certainly I have been selecting fabrics and quilting for some time (40 plus years). I made a few blocks of each color scheme, the black and white and the brown and creams and had it verified that these block were not going to live together on the front of any quilt I made in this life time. I just could not do it.
Somewhat discouraged, I put the quilt away and decided I would make Becky and Todd a different quilt and attempt this one for them at a later date. I had just discovered digital fabric and I was dying to make a window quilt with them. Significant time has passed by now and it is March 2016. I am making good progress on the quilt top of the window quilt before we head to California for Easter 2016 and our grandson’s fifth birthday. We rented a house near Yosemite National Park and on the Saturday before Easter, the entire family took a 4 hour hike through the park with thousands of other tourists. It was a great day and as we were walking along, I was telling my oldest daughter Jamie about the challenges with her sister’s wedding quilt and my digital fabric solution. I remember telling her that the fabric reminded me very much of this beautiful park we were enjoying. She looked a bit puzzled and then said, “Mom, I just can’t imagine Becky taking a hike in a National Park. It’s not her thing.” In that instant, I realized I was making the wrong quilt for the wrong daughter.
Back to the drawing board.
So when we arrived home after the trip, I pulled out the original fabric and the completed quilt blocks and told myself this had to work somehow. My solution was easy once I discovered it: I would make one side black and one side brown. Piece of cake with one small hitch; I did not have enough quilt fabric to make an entire black quilt top and an entire brown quilt top but I had plenty of the marbled backing material. What to do?
My solution was to make each side both the front and the back of the quilt. One half would be blockwork in each color way and the other half would be “plain” like the back of the quilt so that you would see piecing in the blockwork half and quilting in the plain half on each side, hence the name “Both Sides Now.” A simple, elegant solution, I thought, until you came to the pinning where you would have to make sure the blank half was perfectly lined up with the blockwork half on the other side. Oy vey!
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Well, it all worked out, sort of. The line up is perfect on the horizontal line that divides blockwork from plain but I was about 3 inches off side to side. I managed to make it work by quilting stitch in the ditch on the black side, following the pattern of the square blocks and stitch in the ditch on the brown side, following the pattern of the diamonds that are made when the square blocks come together (an optical illusion).
The quilt is finished with buttons of peachy pink (the color from her wedding) flowers, black and silver, and gray embossed between the sayings. The dedication reads, “In celebration of their marriage, this quilt was made for Becky and Todd Newcomer with love, Mom and George.” It is signed at the bottom “V.B. Allmendinger Leiner, May 7, 2017, Greensburg, Pennsylvania.” Over all I am very pleased with it. I am still not 100% sure the “front and back” on both sides works from an aesthetics point of view but it is what it is. Definitely outside the box for me. As always, I am so glad it is done!
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Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-62172754839699683472022-07-11T19:50:00.000-04:002022-07-11T19:50:29.542-04:00Gramma Gigi's pumpkin quilt which became a story about Uncle Jack
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on September 10, 2017 at 12:30pm
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My family was blended long before that became a fashionable term. My parents divorced in 1958 (I was 3) and my dad, who had custody of my sister Bev and I remarried a wonderful woman in 1959 who became Mom to us and gave us our sister, Denise. Mom was a 26 year old secretary with her own car and the family lore is that Dad married her for that car! Not true I am sure because it was a love match that lasted 56 years, the last 34 of them in a harder circumstance when my Dad lost his eyesight and some brain function due to strokes at 49 years old. Mom was and is a trooper. She hung in there with him, loving him and us all those years.
My mom had three brothers, Don, who was a milkman, Bill who was an electrician and sign painter, and Jack who was a carpenter. Jack always had the most beautiful warm and welcoming smile and a great sense of humor. He lived next door to my Gramma (Mom's mom) so we always saw him as well when we visited Gramma and Grampa Taylor.
When I made the quilt, I was not thinking of Uncle Jack but when it was time to put the cross stitch of Mr. Jack O'Lantern and the quote on the back, "I never met a pumpkin I didn't like," it came naturally to me to add "and Jack (implied jack-o-lantern) was always my favorite uncle." This sparked many happy childhood memories of my uncle and the family I was NOT born into that made me so welcomed. As a side bonus, Jack's daughter Chris, contacted me on facebook and she had immediately made the connection between her dad, my uncle, and the quilt. Happiness all around!
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Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-60739481476417936702022-07-11T19:46:00.003-04:002022-07-11T19:46:51.218-04:00We are a family of snappy dressers for sure!
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on December 25, 2017 at 11:00am
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Merry Christmas morning to you all! As I sit here this snowy morning, alternately sipping my Christmas tea and Diet Coke, I am contemplating the year soon to end and another about to begin. I once told someone a good year was three quilts completed and by that definition, this was a good year. I finished Becky's wedding quilt (finally!), made a new Halloween pumpkin quilt for myself and made a memorial quilt for my mom from my dad's shirts. Here it is.
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Not wanting to make the usual memorial shirt quilt (is there such a thing?), I decided to change it up a bit. I asked all the surviving male members of my dad's tribe to send me a shirt they could afford to recycle and made the quilt with Dad's shirts and the shirts of his brother, his brother-in-law, his son-in-laws, his grandson, his grandsons-in-law, and his great grandsons, one of whom he never met. I called the quilt, "The Men in His Family."
Dad has been gone two years now but I still miss him everyday. I wish I could say we had a close, fantastic relationship but other than my early childhood, when we might have been close but I cannot remember, our relationship was loving but distant, the ghost of my parents' painful divorce always getting in the way. My parents were good people who raised me well and gave me a safe, stable childhood. I felt I knew my dad best for about 30 minutes one April morning the year before he died. I was in Naperville, Illinois visiting my family and it was one of those rare times when Dad and I were alone together. My dad was living in a senior care home adjacent to my mom's senior living condo, a great set up that made it possible for her to be with him everyday. But it was just me and Dad that morning and I was helping him get dressed and shaved for the day when I noticed he was crying.
I asked him, "Did I hurt your, Dad? what's wrong?" and he responded that he did not think he had been a good father to me and my sister (from the first disastrous marriage). Here it was, the moment I had been wishing for for all of my adult life, the chance to talk honestly about the past, clear some things up, get some questions asked and answered. But instead of the that man who had all the answers to my questions, I saw sitting in the chair, another human being hurting, regretting, reassessing his life. A man handicapped physically and blind, needing love and reassurance, not questions. A man who knew his race was almost all run and that the next stop was on the not too distant horizon. "I wish I could have done some things better," he went on to tell me. "If I could do them over, I would do them differently. I don't know why you girls want to have anything to do with me."
I knew then that no questions would get asked or answered. What was needed was love. Life and circumstance, even God, had given me the opportunity to help put his mind to rest, to lighten his heart. To tell him what a good dad he had been. That we all make mistakes and have times when we wish we had done things differently. That none of us are perfect.
I took his face between my two hands. I remember the feeling of the whiskers I had not managed to shave well off his cheeks against my palm. I told him, "you were the best dad and I do not want you to ever forget it. You were and are the best." By this time we are both crying. It was the most genuine moment I have ever had with my dad and I am so grateful for it. No one was mentioned by name, no particular sins were recounted and forgiven. Love was like a blanket of snow falling over us both and wiping out all wrongs.
Before I left that weekend, as I was visiting Dad at his bedtime, I wanted to say goodbye as he would not see me in the morning, I would be on the road driving home. My Mom and sister Denise, his most constant caregivers, were helping him get ready for bed and when he was all settled in, I leaned over to tell him goodbye. Dad started crying again and said, "I don't want you to leave." I told him I loved him and asked him to remember what I had said earlier. He responded and we said together, "you are the best dad ever." I told him I would be back and I wanted him to remember that until I returned.
That was 2014. Dad died December 23, 2015. I miss him everyday though I feel I only really knew him for less than an hour on a random day.
Mom keeps this quilt on her bed at home. I talked to her on Dad's death anniversary this year and she told me she had a hard time sleeping the night before, but on the whole, things get easier everyday. I hope the quilt was a little bit of Dad there with her.
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Still quilt crazy after all these yearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231675748308421850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6288258956818913564.post-60444832922818816272022-07-11T19:42:00.001-04:002022-07-12T10:01:05.204-04:00Made the local paper with a piece about Ruby's Christmas Quilt
Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on January 13, 2018 at 9:34pm
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It's January and apparently a slow news week. I made the newspaper (print and online version) with a short video and print interview about quilting. The reporter, Shirley, is a museum friend and called asking me if I would like to talk about quilting. Can you imagine me saying no???
She asked me to bring my latest project so I brought in Ruby's Christmas quilt. The top is finished and I think I will wait until I have Sylvia's done as well before I pin and quilt them both. Maybe by then, the attic office for my sweet hubby will be finished, we will have moved him upstairs to it and I will have his old office as the expansion of my quilt studio. Then I can set my table extension up and leave it up permanently.
At any rate, here is the link. Me talking quilt trash.
https://archive.triblive.com/lifestyles/more-lifestyles/quilting-is-a-labor-of-love-for-the-westmorelands-ginnie-leiner/
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Posted by Virginia "Ginnie" Leiner on January 19, 2018 at 9:00pm
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I haven't talked about it much here but I have decided I am a tired old dog. I have an excuse of course. Every old dog does and here is mine.
In March 2017, I had my artificial knee on the left replaced with a new artificial knee as the old one came loose and moved left.
In October 2017, they determined the right artificial knee was infected and took it out, replacing it with a spacer for 5 weeks. Turns out they were wrong, it was not infected (good news for me) but the surgeon could not give me a new knee until a) all the tests were conclusive and b) I recovered from the surgery.
So in November 2017, I got a new right knee. I was off work four weeks in April and 10 weeks in the fall, not returning to work until after the holidays. Fortunately I was able to work from home part time and use sick time for the rest.
In January 2018, I was diagnosed with acute inflammatory anemia, in other words, I had too many operations and I am worn out! I am back to work full time but not good for much else.
Lately, I haven't been too excited about much of anything. The weather is cold and snowy (we have about 8 inches on the ground and temps in the single digits) and there is not much sunshine. I decided I needed to get out of these doldrums so I learned a new quilting trick. I taught myself how to paper piece quilt blocks and now I am hooked. Here are my first two attempts:
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The quilt is for my second granddaughter, Sylvia Reagan Newcomer and is called, "The Fox in the Christmas Henhouse" and yes, it is a Christmas quilt. Next I make about half a dozen paper pieced chickens (that's a rooster you see above and we all know there is only one rooster in a henhouse) and some paper pieced henhouses. I am not sure what (if any) other blocks I will use. I have two different chick block patterns for the border and lots of ideas!
Hope you are all doing well. I would love to hear from you. Winter and fatigue have me on-line too much!
Be well and learn new tricks!
Ginnie
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