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Category: Quilts

Postage Stamps: World’s Smallest Contract

“The US military knew that letters from home were the single biggest morale booster, and a force with high morale fights better.”  Sarah Sundin A postage stamp is the world’s smallest contract. When it is licked and affixed onto an envelope, there is an implied promise that nothing will deter…

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CleoLampos February 11, 2021 March 11, 2021Cleo Thoughts, Quilts, World War II 1

UFOs: Quilting During Covid-19

“I am SO guilty of starting a new project before I finish the last one.” – Julie Cefalu, The Crafty Quilter One of the positive consequences of “sheltering at home” during the virus epidemic has been the completion of so many UFOs- Unfinished Objects. Every quilting site on social media…

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CleoLampos April 23, 2020 April 22, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Quilts 0

Meet the Quilters of WW2

“Without the aid of home front women warriors, maintaining the needs of the country and the military during the war would have been impossible.”   – Sue Reich The Grannies Quilt The call for quilts to help in the war effort fell onto the ears of many on the home front…

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CleoLampos March 19, 2020 March 18, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Memories, Quilts, The Great Depression, World War II 1

WW2 Quilters: Fighting with Needles and Thread

“Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women. This was a peoples’ war, and everyone was in it.”   – Olivia Culp Hobby, engraved on WWII Memorial in DC   With pride, thousands of women signed up for military service after the bombing of Pearl…

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CleoLampos March 16, 2020 March 16, 2020Celebration, Cleo Thoughts, Gallant Warriors, Memories, Quilts, World War II 0

Winter Quilts

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”   – John Steinbeck Time for the winter quilts. The icy season descended upon the Midwestern States with a Halloween snow storm. Mercury lies in the lower end of the thermometer for days. Instead of…

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CleoLampos November 21, 2019 November 19, 2019Cleo Thoughts, Memories, Quilts quilts for winter, Winter 2

When Women Stitch

“Quilters cut with hope, stitch with grace, quilt with dreams, bind with laughter, share with love”. -Anonymous Most quilters are fabric hoarders. They joke about this tendency to squirrel away fat quarters, swatches or whole bolts of choice designs. But, on a deeper level,  fabric is a symbolic material that…

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CleoLampos October 31, 2019 October 30, 2019Cleo Thoughts, Quilts quilting bees, quilting therapy, quilts 0
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