A Little Story (Overdue)

I was without a computer yesterday but all systems are go today!

I wanted to share a some more photos of my weekend guests.

I became associated with them through my friend Rhonda.

The story starts with Leo, who Rhonda happened to meet.

He told her about his wife who was a quilter.

Rhonda became fast friends with Leo and he invited her to come see Helen's quilts.

Rhonda ended up submitting a couple of her quilts into our local guilds' quilt show last May.

You see, Helen passed away a couple years ago.

Rhonda is now the permanent custodian of all the quilts. Some were Helen's and some were Helen's mom's quilts and also some were quilts they had worked on together.

Here is a sampling of their work.

Some were still unquilted... "works in progress".
Some were completed masterpieces.


All of them were however, pieces of their lives.

Well loved, even some a bit tattered and sometimes a little neglected.

But all are beautiful in their own right.
So, I didn't really have Helen or Glessie as house guests in a traditional way.

But very much in spirit!

But I got to have their works of art to enjoy and appreciate

for a short time.
I have more photos to share of Helen's other quilts... soon.

This was submitted with the quilts at the quilt show:

Submitted on behalf of Leo Martin

After my wife, Helen Lee, passed away I was going through some her things and found an old trunk containing several ‘old quilts’ that were Helen’s and her mother’s, Glessie Coberly. Glessie was born in 1894 and grew up in Clovis, California.

This Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt was hand pieced and hand quilted by Glessie in 1954. My wife, Helen learned to quilt and do other needlework from her mother as a small child.
In memory of Glessie Coberly (1894-1976) and
Helen Lee Martin (1921-2008)