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A Crisis of Quilting Proportions

May 25, 2018

Some of my friends and family members are Mennonite Quilt Collectors. Or perhaps I should say that they are Mennonite Mennonite Quilt Collectors because they are Mennonites who collect Mennonite quilts. Which makes it sound like they just collect their own quilts. They don’t. My friends and family who collect Mennonite quilts are mostly Mennonites … More A Crisis of Quilting Proportions

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A Bargain Hunter’s Guide to the Mennonite Relief Sale

May 23, 2016

One of the reason that we Mennonites love our annual MCC Relief Sale so much has to be that it is the one time in the year when spending with abandon is not only allowed but encouraged. You could think of it as a day of relief from frugality. To a point. It is true … More A Bargain Hunter’s Guide to the Mennonite Relief Sale

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The Quiltmaker’s Guilt

January 23, 2016

This post was originally posted in May, 2015 on the old site. There’s a book that I used to read to my kids that’s called the Quiltmaker’s Gift. It tells the story of a magical old woman who made beautiful quilts (all by herself) and gave them to the poor. “ ‘I give my quilts … More The Quiltmaker’s Guilt

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