Back in the days before Instagram, when we got to "know" people online via blogs, Mark and I became friends with Candy Gengler, aka Grandma G.
The first time I met Candy in real life, it felt kind of like a blind date. If you have had the wonderful opportunity to meet one of your blogging friends in person, then maybe you know what I'm talking about. A few butterflies...will I like her? Will she like me? Will we have anything in common? Will we run out of things to talk about and then have an awkward silence?
Candy's daughter is Jessica Jones, designer of fabulous fabric and the writer behind the uber popular blog, How About Orange. What first caught my eye, of course, was the very witty, usually very humorous conversation between mother and daughter that continued to take place in the comment section of Jess's blog. I asked myself, who was this Grandma G person anyway? So I clicked on her name, which took me to her blog, where I read that she lived in southern Minnesota, close to where Mark grew up. We started an email correspondence, and then three years later, when we went back to Minnesota for Mark's high school reunion, we took the time to drive the relatively short distance to meet in person.
In April I had decided to make a quilt for her. Years ago, I had purchased some fabric of cats sitting on bare and snowy branches.
Candy's daughter is Jessica Jones, designer of fabulous fabric and the writer behind the uber popular blog, How About Orange. What first caught my eye, of course, was the very witty, usually very humorous conversation between mother and daughter that continued to take place in the comment section of Jess's blog. I asked myself, who was this Grandma G person anyway? So I clicked on her name, which took me to her blog, where I read that she lived in southern Minnesota, close to where Mark grew up. We started an email correspondence, and then three years later, when we went back to Minnesota for Mark's high school reunion, we took the time to drive the relatively short distance to meet in person.
In April I had decided to make a quilt for her. Years ago, I had purchased some fabric of cats sitting on bare and snowy branches.
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It was such fun handing this cat-themed quilt to Candy.
Pattern by: (can't remember)
Date Completed: 2012
Quilted by: Me
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