Keith Schwanz

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

— Muhammad Ali

Quilting

Christmas in July … and August

Early this summer we realized that we had three 16x22x11-inch totes and two 16x22x6-inch totes filled with Christmas fabric. Judi estimated that maybe ninety percent of this fabric we received from other people and the […]

Aug, 02

Mid-year report on charity quilting

Here’s our mid-year report to the board of directors. (If you are reading this, that’s you.) We begin with a confession. This must be the year of the sloth. In the midst of stay-at-home 2020, […]

Jul, 01

Q1 report on charity quilting

Here’s the first 2021 report to the board of directors (that’s you) for the charity quilting operations in our basement. Last year at this time, we were settled in to the stay-at-home average of one […]

Apr, 20

A Song

Sing with me … Night and day she sews and sews.Just how many quilts she’s madeGod only knows.Whether morning, night, or noonThe machine is on, sound fills the room,I hear the hum night and day. […]

Apr, 15

com + fort

I like exploring words from the inside. The word comfort has two parts: com- (together, beside) + fort (strong). A FORTress is a strong place. FORTitude is strength and courage in adversity. To comfort (verb), […]

Mar, 14

Part 3: Annual Report on Charity Quilting

Stephen Covey called it sharpening the saw. I think that’s a fair image of how Judi and I will start 2021. Judi is at the sewing machine almost every night, usually sewing for the benefit […]

Dec, 31

Part 2: Annual Report on Charity Quilting

Project Linus is a national organization with an active chapter in the Kansas City metro. The KC group reports distribution of 140,041 quilts and blankets through the years and the national organization reports gifting 8,019,901 […]

Dec, 31

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