Quiltmaker’s Daughter
India Spends Week in the North Georgia Mountains
My daughter India will not even sit on our patio, but she loves the Atlanta Young Singers‘ summer camp. She attended as a camper and has returned two years as a counselor. This year, she is enjoying being Head Counselor. When she was forced to go camping during her junior year at the Lovett School [...]
India Rocks!
India Rocks! began on a cruise when India wanted to visit every Hard Rock Cafe we could find. Naturally we bought a t-shirt. This was the beginning of her Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt collection. She continued to collect them over the years, and they ended up in this quilt.
Enchantment of the Seas
Normally this time of year, India and I enjoy a spring break cruise. Cruising during spring break has been a long tradition of ours, and I attribute those cruises to our strong bond today. However, this year life intervened (she was managing the girls basketball team at PITT and I was working at Holland & [...]
Happy Birthday, India!
Speaking of people who make me smile, today is my baby’s birthday. India is 19 today. That means I have been smiling for at least 19 years. First Love is one of the early quilts I made for India. It seemed like a good day to share it. Happy Birthday, Miss Smilemaker!
Snow in Pittsburgh!
Happy Holidays, 61 x 43 inches, by O.V. Brantley, 2010. For sale at www.ovbrant.etsy.com. Pittsburgh is getting its first real snow this week. Our little southern belle (India) seems to be coping, but complaining! Maybe my latest Christmas quilt will cheer her up. It is called Happy Holidays. The snowmen in this quilt love the snow, and [...]
Happy at PITT
Today is a super happy day for India so it seemed like a good day to update my many followers on India’s adventures at the University of Pittsburgh. When I last wrote about India in August, I had decorated her dorm room and reluctantly returned to Atlanta to my empty nest. She enthusiastically embarked on her [...]
A Few Things Left in Atlanta — Black Butterfly
Black Butterfly is one of the quilts that did not make the trip to PITT. I consider it one of our family heirlooms that could not be entrusted to a college student. I made this quilt when India got her drivers license, but it has always summed up her life to me. I knew she [...]
A Few Things Left in Atlanta — Justin
Justin is our beloved soon-to-be -10 year-old shih tzu. He was sure he was making the trip to Pittsburgh. He happily climbed in the back of the truck and found a nice comfy spot on a PITT blanket that India received as a graduation gift from Kim Williams, mother of classmate Max Williams. Alas, it was [...]
A Few Things Left in Atlanta — Summer Job
A few things had to be left in Atlanta. One was her summer job. India worked at Cold Stone Creamery during the summer to earn money for books. It wasn’t always easy because there were many nights she did not get home until after midnight. It was worth it though. She earned the money she [...]
India’s Basketball Star Matriculates at the University of Pittsburgh
The second quilt that enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh with India is India’s Basketball Star. Basketball was a big part of India’s life while in high school at the Lovett School. She, along with the three other seniors who received similar quilts, received this quilt at the end of the season party. At the University [...]
