About Me

When I was young, we lived on a farm a distance from other kids and Mom kept us busy sewing and other crafts. All our dolls had new dresses we attempted to sew with Mom’s instruction. A kitchen towel with an embroidered tea kettle was a project one summer and I learned to love making something new; something different with my needle and thread. As I grew older, my Grandma presented me with a quilt for my hope chest. It was such a beautiful cover; stitched by my Grandma’s hand and made from scraps of material from her dresses and Granda’s shirts.

That first quilt was the beginning of my love for quilts and quilting. Mom had an old quilt frame and I borrowed it often when the kids were small to put together quilts to keep them warm through the winter. I now have my own beautiful oak frame that I use when making my quilting projects.

I feel a quilt made by hand has a little bit of love tucked in between the layers of cloth and soft batting as it is being sewn. Patchwork quilts, made with many colors of fabric – scraps – are my favorite. They resemble the jumble of colors in a flower garden—thus the name—Barb’s Quilt Garden.