As a child, Carol read a story at school about a young pioneer girl and her crazy quilt. She was so fascinated by it that she begged her mother to make one. Eula Mae had no idea what a crazy quilt was, and only Carol's description to work from, but she began hand piecing odd sized cotton scraps, and Carol tried to help. The quilt grew until it was obvious that it had taken on a life of it's own, as contoured as a range of hills. Mother and daughter agreed to give up on it for a while…

Finally, in 1974, armed with books and embroidery skills, Carol began sewing on a real, old-fashioned crazy quilt. It's one of her favorite UFO's, and has been complete except for the border for the past 5 or 10 years. It has some really special fabric scraps: pongee from mother and daughter dresses for her first day at kindergarten, a piece from her wedding dress, scraps of Persian lace from her favorite belly dance costumes, a tiny scrap from the Siegfried and Roy show…
…and she insists that one of these days it will get finished!