I am a Red Sox fan. My husband roots for the Yankees but I try not to hold that against him. Last night I had the pleasure of meeting Rosemary Bawn who came to Thimble Pleasures Quilt Guild to speak. She is best known around New England as the “Red Sox Quilt Lady.” Her quilts are really quite stunning. Her most recent one “Reversing the Curse” has won a number of awards and recently hung at the New England Quilt Museum as a part of the “Best of New England Guilds” Exhibit. I was also fortunate to have my “Challenge Star” hanging as part of the same exhibit.

Rosemary’s quilts are absolutely amazing. The attention to detail, creativity and workmanship simply awed us all. Her scrapbook quilts depicting the times in her life and in her children’s lives are beautiful. The Red Sox quilts are the most famous but by no means are representative of her entire body of work. She was an animated, funny and down-to-earth speaker. I know my quilt guild thoroughly enjoyed her presentation.

Her quilts left me equally inspired and intimidated. I spend so much time working on my quilting business, “Beth Sullivan Designs” that I rarely have time to quilt for ME anymore. I really need to make more time to do that. *Sigh* Right on cue, here comes Lucy!