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Any Quilters Out There Involved in Real Estate and/or Staging?

By Eula Lang

Services for Real Estate Pros with Quilting Bits & Pieces

November 07, 2006 12:06 PM

I am interested in sharing with Realtors and Stagers and anyone else in the real estate industry who are quilters and/or who use quilts in decorating/staging homes. Please share photos of quilts you have made. Below is one that is of a highway scene in Kansas called Mile 143.

My husband and I were heading toward Colorado from our oldest son's wedding and I said, "Honey, Stop the Car". That is a phrase my Realtor husband now wants to use on his sign riders. He pulled over and I took around 100 photos of an old stone house (shown below). Photo of abandoned stone house on Mile 143

When we got back from vacation, I designed a quilt pattern for our Of One Mind quilt pattern business and proceeded to make the quilt (shown below) from that pattern.

Quilt of abandoned stone house on Mile 143

It was featured in June of last year's McCall's Quilting Magazine. While the quilt currently hangs in my store in Eudora, I hope to one day be able to display it in our new home that has lots of wall space ready for me to cover with quilts. Hope you enjoyed the photos, feel free to comment, but please share a quilt photo(s) of your own and share where it hangs and if there is a story to tell about it.

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Stefan Scholl

Buyer's Broker of Northern Michigan, LLC - Petoskey, MI

Northern Michigan Real Estate

Eula,

You are very talented. Thank you for sharing.

Nov 07, 2006 01:08 PM

Tricia Jumonville

Bradfield Properties - Georgetown, TX

Texas REALTOR , Agent With Horse Sense

Beautiful! I don't quilt, but I do collect them (have a lovely Hmong/Amish quilt that I got from Vermont some years ago).

Have you ever made it to the International Quilt Festival held in Houston every October? You'd think you'd died and gone to Heaven - I do, anyway.

Nov 07, 2006 02:23 PM

Eula Lang

Quilting Bits & Pieces - Lawrence, KS

Hi Tricia,

Do you have a photo of your Hmong/Amish quilt? Please post it here as I would love to see it!

We have had a booth at Houston for the past several years. Next year we are fortunate to have Kansas City Star host our patterns at Houston so it will be less work for us since we won't need to haul all our patterns and quilts. That will be their job!

That means more time for us to enjoy the market for ourselves and not be tied to our booth most of the time.

Nov 07, 2006 02:35 PM

Linda Davis

RE/MAX Home Team - Gales Ferry, CT

You have a special talent!!! Wow! Thanks for sharing.

Nov 07, 2006 02:36 PM

Tricia Jumonville

Bradfield Properties - Georgetown, TX

Texas REALTOR , Agent With Horse Sense

It's currently packed away (in an archival box wrapped in archival paper!) and I don't have a photo, sad to say, but I should pull it out and take one - and of the rest of my quilts - have a gorgeous one my husband picked up for me in Vermillionville, Louisiana, when he was on a trip some years back.

I'll try to find time to do that and post them for you.

Nov 07, 2006 02:52 PM

Bonnie Erickson

Tangletown Realty - Saint Paul, MN

All my life I resisted quilting. I have sewn every item of clothing worn by wo/man ranging from elaborate wedding gowns to lingerie, blue jeans to men's suits and everything between, but quilting? Ach! My grandmother stitched beautiful old fashioned quilts from scrap fabric her sister sent from the "dress factory" in California. They looked nothing like today's quilts where people buy the fabric and spend more for the quilt than they would a good quality blanket. Piecing seemed so tedious and I'm such a perfectionist that I knew I'd be "reverse stitching" alot if I ever took up the craft. So my oldest daughter gets married (she hates to sew anything BUT quilts) and invites her baby sister who is 15 and I to a women's weekend quilt retreat. "Hrumph!" says I, "I'd don't quilt!" The 15 year old daughter looks at me and says, "But, Mom, wouldn't it be fun to just have us girls away for a weekend?" Has any mother turned down a 15 year old daughter's plea to spend the weekend alone with her! I must have been out of my mind. I hated the first quilt as it was traditional. The second scared me as it was sort of Amish with lots of black with blocks of bright brilliant tie dyed smiley faces in between. (Excellence with a Smile is my tag line.) The next was just rectangles made specifically to match a flour sack type room. Then a queen size snail's trail which was beautiful. The last is The Quiltmaker's Gift's "Storm at Sea" from muted batiks. I don't like it but it's not quite done so we'll see. We're going again this year the first weekend in December. It's become a tradition, just the girls and me. We sew all weekend in our jammies with all the other women in their jammies or sweats or whatever is comfortable. Some don't sleep, just sew! We do stop to eat. So, Grandma should be proud. The girl she taught to sew has finally taken up the craft she swore she'd never learn as she played under the quilt frames long ago.

Nov 07, 2006 06:35 PM

Eula Lang

Quilting Bits & Pieces - Lawrence, KS

Tricia, it's great to hear that you have the quilt properly packed. Some people unknowingly have packed or stored a quilt in a plastic bag which traps the gasses from the plastic among other things and causes the quilt to rot, disintegrate, and/or discolor. I'm looking forward to seeing your photos when you post them.

BTW, a cotton pillow case or a cotton sheet is another way of storing a quilt.

Nov 07, 2006 11:28 PM

Eula Lang

Quilting Bits & Pieces - Lawrence, KS

Stefan, Linda, and Caron:

Thanks for taking the time to post your comments. If you are ever travelling through northeastern Kansas feel free to stop in the downtown Eudora Quilt shop to see the dozens of quilts hanging there and dozens of old sewing machines displayed. It is very much a working museum. We get bus tours that come from other states to stop in and tour.

Nov 07, 2006 11:42 PM

Eula Lang

Quilting Bits & Pieces - Lawrence, KS

Caron, http://www.eudoraquiltshop.com/ will show you several of our quilts we have made and http://www.ofonemindquilts.com/ is our quilt pattern website. Both of them have larger pictures of Mile 143.

Nov 07, 2006 11:43 PM

Eula Lang

Quilting Bits & Pieces - Lawrence, KS

Sorry about the autoresponder that you all are getting. My husband got it turned off now but it may not go into effect for 15 minutes or so.

Nov 07, 2006 11:51 PM

Eula Lang

Quilting Bits & Pieces - Lawrence, KS

Bonnie and Cheryl,

It's great to hear about family quilting. We have a monthly late night at the store on Friday nights where we order food in and bring food to share. We just sit around, talk, and quilt. My d-i-l Morgan comes over along with other ladies from around northeastern Kansas.

I started embroidering when I was 4 and made a rail fence in blues and yellows as my first quilt in junior high. The batting was an old blanket and it was tied. I still have it. My mom taught me and she still actively quilts today up in Geneseo IL. She makes lap quilts (thousands of them - no exaggeration) for the nursing homes and missions. She also does handwork and makes quilts for her children and grandchildren.

So Bonnie, keep up the great work with your daughters as they will have great quilting stories to share about you.

Cheryl, I used to cross stitch a lot before quilting. A lot of people go from cross stitch to quilting so watch out, it may be in your future.

Nov 08, 2006 12:04 AM

John Hruska

Homes Charlotte, LLC - Charlotte, NC

Eula,

I'm not a quilter but my wife is. Great hobby for her when I am busy with clients

Nov 27, 2006 07:58 AM

Sarah Nopp

South Sound, WA

Eula, I attend a monthly sew-in with my guild. We get to use the library nearby and we all bring snacks and show up in the morning and sew until we are finished with our projects or have to leave for whatever reason.

It is one of the few days I really do take off from work.

Not that is has anything to do with staging :) But I did just finished piecing the top of a really cute (IMHO) batiks-on-white nine patch set on point for the new baby of a client whose house just sold. Now to get it all quiltied and bound before the child graduates college!

Jun 07, 2007 04:53 PM

Eula Lang

Quilting Bits & Pieces - Lawrence, KS

Hi Sarah,

What a great gift to your client!!

Eula

www.EudoraQuiltShop.com

Jun 08, 2007 04:47 AM

Cheryl Willis

RE/MAX Solutions- OZARK MISSOURI - Mount Vernon, MO

MO Broker - Mt Vernon, Monett, Aurora, Barry & Law

hopefully better late than never- I got a group started, hope to see you soon be good cheryl