*Throw Me! handmade by Nana
Nana's Quilt, Throw Me! One of 150 she lovingly made by hand. Oh for sure stop by she’ll gladly show you her collection, and, she’s a master quilter. A quilt has medicinal qualities, you see, stored up in it by the quilters loving hands, then passed on to whomever cuddles the quilt. Nana's quilts are simply put, priceless!!! They are only held by serious collectors. “Throw Me,” apply named, made, front and back (see below), from reproduced thirties fabrics - originally the cloth sacks what flour and feed came in.
Throw Me named because of its perfect throw-over-you size for a chilly evening. Throw is made, from replica fabrics of chicken feed and flour sacks, once the rage for sewing bees, long forgotten. You see the little woman would accompany the husband down to the farm feed store and pick out the fancy feed sacks she wanted for to sew her next dress, quilt or his new square dancing shirt!
tom tenbrunsel
Poet Laureate of Quilting
Author’s Note: You have any idea the cost/value of a hand made quilt by a master quilter? Consider the decorative fabrics used in say a king size. Add the cost of the quilting between a selected quilt face and the hand pieced backing. And stitching the binding.The cost of equipment. The cost of quilting it. Now add the cost of the expert quilter, her talented eye for color coordination, sewing always “on point,” and the loving attention of the quilter.
Nice price. Now figure in the quilter. For three to four weeks work what do you want to pay the master quilter: minimum wage$15/hr ($1800), $50/hours mechanics pay ($6000). A quality handmade quilt (not roughly made of whole cloth and loosely stitched runs $50 and you get what you pay for - trash. A collector quilt by a master quilter runs around $36,000. Be forever thankful for your precious free gift. Don’t take it for granted. Take priceless care of it you are fortunate to have it. Don’t let the dog shit on it❤️
also my “Quilts are Medicinal” first published in Mary Jane Nordgren‘s The Grove Poetry Newsletter. https://www.tenbrunsel.com/post/quilts-are-medicinal
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