I'm so excited to have Kansas author Linda Hubalek on the blog today! You can see my reviews of her books here and here.
What’s on my bed? Gray
Cat, my 10 year old male cat that sleeps on my bed most of the day.
Oh, but what’s UNDER Gray Cat? A washable comforter…
What would I like to
have on my bed besides gray cat hair? My antique quilts that my ancestors
made—and I have twenty-seven to choose from…
And each quilt makes the bed, and room, look totally
different.
Today I’ll show you some of my great grandmother, Kizzie
Pieratt’s quilts, and next Friday I’ll show you some of my grandmother, Irene
Pieratt Akers’ quilts.
Kizzie raised eight
children, was the main farmer in the family, and quilted other people’s quilt
tops for additional income. Most of the quilts I have of hers were made to be functional,
and used on our own family’s beds when I was growing up in the 1950s.
She made enough quilt blocks for more than one quilt at a
time, and then used different material for between the blocks and the backing. For
example I have two Pinwheel quilts, one with a blue backing, and the other with
a pink one.
Most often the heavy quilts were tied, like this wool tied
Fan design, instead of quilted.
But, I have a few wonderful quilts that she stitched tens of
thousands of stitches in that material too.
The bright yellow Log
Cabin Star quilt was made from feed sacks. That was a lot of chicken feed to
get that many sacks of yellow material.
It’s fun to reminisce about these quilts and the woman that
made them. In fact, I’m working on a book about Kizzie and her quilts now titled
The Kansas Quilter.
To learn more about this book, and my ten other books about
pioneer women that homesteaded on the Kansas prairie, please visit my website
at http://LindaHubalek.com.
And please check back to this blog site next week to see
even more antique quilts on my bed.
Many thanks from the Kansas prairie!
Linda Hubalek
Linda Hubalek
Oh my word, I am drooling over these quilts! Linda, thanks so much for blessing us with these today. Please come by next Friday to see even more of Linda's beautiful heirloom quilts.
Love,
xoxo
Gray Cat is handsome! I have cats on my bed too, and have a throw covering my quilt! Thank you for sharing your quilts, I really enjoyed this post!
ReplyDeleteFabulous, and so fun and nice of you to share! I'm going to check those books!
ReplyDeleteI love the quilts but I had to comment on the cat! Is he a Russian Blue? We had one; he was perpetually cranky - so much so that we changed his name to Lola ("sorrows").
ReplyDeleteHello all and thanks for reading this blog and posting a comment. Gray Cat was a stray tom cat that adopted us nine years ago and we think he's about 11 years old and 16 pounds. Cranky would be a good word for him...and if he gets mad, he doesn't swipe at you with his claws, he open's his mouth and hits you with his top teeth! Makes a nice black and blue puncture wound.... I don't know what kind of cat he is, but now that he's older, he is turning silver on his face and paws. Most of the time he's still a cool "dude" though.
ReplyDeletePlease do enjoy my books too everyone!
author Linda Hubalek
It's me again, I had to confirm but I'm sure Gray Cat is a British Shorthair. The description fits him to a "t"- down to they don't want to cuddle...
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Those vintage quilts are killer. Really inspirational. Love them. The gray kitty is very sweet.
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