Wooden Spools Wind Up Being Lots of Fun

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At an auction I once bought three gallon jars full of wooden spools to get three spools. They were the large size, many of them green, and had been saved by our friend and neighbor, the late Velma Bennett. Velma was an excellent quilt maker. I wanted one spool to keep and one spool each for Nancy and Walt to remember her by.

In 1953, when we moved to our farm, I asked Velma to make matching wedding ring quilts for the children's beds. She pieced and quilted them with the tiniest stitches and bound the edges with the same care for $18 each. What a great neighbor she was.

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Wooden Spools Wind Up Being Lots of Fun

No wonder she had so many spools!

"What in the world will you do with all of those spools?" a woman asked as I won the bid. "Well, I could make a lot of tractors...

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