Crafting Memories

The crafting room, studio, shop, or whatever name it has...should be a place where we can sit and create.  Whatever our craft is, it is a part of who we are.  Crafting is good for the soul and we leave lots of memories with our crafts. Things we buy come and go but things we make tend to stay...it can be placed in a closet and later brought out and the memories come flooding back. That's the way I remember it when my grandmother used to quilt.  She lost her legs to diabetes but it did not stop her from thinking of others or contributing to the household income.  I remember her living room being small and she could not manuver around a quilting rack so my grandfather hung her quilting rack from the ceiling and she worked on her quilts from underneath.  I would sit and watch her make her stitches, arms up in the air for hours at a time.  My head and hers tilted back...I could hardly move my neck when she was done for the day.  However, my grandmother loved her craft and made the most amazing quilts.  She would forget all her worries and smile when she quilted. She is long gone but her quilts remain in the family. She touched my heart and left crafting memories with me.