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Each Block in Grandma’s Kitchen will be a memory or event. Often the block name is something I thought about this week. This is very much a journal for me, and It’s so much fun to have everyone joining! This week might be unique to me, but I bet it isn’t!
My Granny & Pappy had a key holder in the kitchen to hang the keys. And when you read my story in the pattern, you’ll see why it was a great memory for me! This got me thinking.. do people have key holders in the kitchen still? Did your grandma or your family keep all the keys on a holder?
This week I did something NEW!! Right above the pattern download I did a video about the block… leave me a comment telling me if you liked this. It’s a bit of work, and I have maybe make it shorter.. or do it differently.. so it’s all experimenting for me & learning How to edit it!! Including the OPPS! you.. see that..I’m keeping it real!
I included in the pattern this week a bonus layout of the block in repeat NO sashing so that it make a cool ‘chain’ Awesome for scrap busting!
keep reading to my video & download!
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Would I be able to use charm packs to make the Grandma’s Kitchen blocks or do I need to purchase fat quarters?
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My grandma had a bowl near the door where keys were kept, much like my aunt does now. It took me years to put a book by the door somE didn’t have to spend precious time better spent driving to work only to find my keys in the fridge…
My grandmother on my dad’s side passed before I was born, but my dad had kept keys of my grandparents on a peice of wire. There were many keys, but the skeleton keys were always my favorite.
I have two key holders! The one by the front door doesn’t actually hold keys. It’s more for decoration, and says Home is where the Army sends us! It also has our last name at the top. There are plaques underneath for each place we were stationed. The one by the back door that holds the keys also has mail slots. I love your story of your grandparent’s key holder!
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I am not doing this quilt along, but I am enjoying everyone’s stories on the Facebook group. My grandparents’ key holder was in the hallway by their bedroom. I hadn’t thought about that in years.
My grandfather was also called Pappy! He was a fantastic woodworker. He made a wooden key-shaped key holder for me 40 years ago. I treasure it. My grandmother taught me to sew at age 10. I began with my Easter dress that year. I took after her and sewed, knit, embroidered and quilted. And I have her Featherweight sewing machine, too. I remember their kitchen table. It was very blonde. We had great dinners there and played many card games as a family on it. Thanks for the memories.
We didn’t have a key holder in our kitchen. My dad’s mother lived with us but she didn’t drive and I don’t remember her ever going out on her own. My mom’s mother died before I was born.
I don’t remember grandparents but, I keep a key holder beside my front door, as I have an open floor plan, all keys goes there for me otherwise they would forever be lost.
The only keys I remembering in my Gra’ma’s home were to the freezers and they hung on three hooks hidden on one end of the freezer! That’s right there was a lock on the food! But seriously she had a great big industrial style freezer with three doors! One was her’s, one was my mom’s and the third was my uncle’s! We were farmers and every year we would butcher a cow and the meat was devided between the three families! We kept them locked because they didn’t keep their doors locked. LOL Sadly I just learned this week that my grandma’s home was torn down! 😪So thankful for this quilt project now that her home is gone! At least the home I remember! She moved to New York state from Missouri where she started her family life. The first home she moved to when she came to New York State still stands but I have no memory of that house she had moved to the cute little green house I remember some time just before WWII. But I will always remember her home as it is a place I remember filled with love and lots of fun play time! And it is where I learned to sew!
Thank you Pat for such a great video learning is so much easier for me when its visual like that rather than reading how to do something.
I also loved all the comments from your other followers many gave me a laugh.
Happy days and thanks again, yes I intend to make the Grandmas Kitchen quilt …eventually… busy at this point so cant make a start yet.
Also love the photos of blocks so far. Its always interesting to see the colours others pick.
Thanks again
Gayle Z
My Grandma didn’t have a key holder when I knew her because back then we never locked our doors and she didn’t have a car. My other grandparents used a hook on the thread holder/pincushion my grandfather made and hung in the laundry room. My husband and I have continued that tradition by having a special key rack for his keys in the kitchen and one for my keys in the front hallway.
Thats so funny! My grandma’s house has a key holder too that my grandfather would leave his ball cap on when he was in the house. My daughter would tighten it up to the smallest size before we left from visiting and he would go to put it on to do chores and it would sit on the top of his head instead of down around his ears and he would call and say ,”let me talk to that darn daughter of yours.”She would giggle. It was their way of teasing. Grandpa would always tell her next time she came out he was going to lock her in the basement with his elephant that he kept down there. She was anout four or five at the time. Good memories!
fun!
oh i love that! sounds like something my grandpa would have done!
Melissa the ruler line goes on the SEAM of the block. I hope that helps!
I never knew a grandma, one died before I was born and the other one passed when I was a baby. I don’t remember my mom having a key holder (the doors were always unlocked back then) but I have a key holder in the shape of a teapot. It is only used for extra keys as we carry the main ones in our pocket or purse. I enjoyed your video and thanks for the pattern each week, I am enjoying the sew along. Have a great day!
Videos are always good – seeing something visually is frequently easier than reading a set of directions. None of my grandparents, nor my parents had a ‘key holder’, however, I do. It’s a magnetic wire basket with a small hook for a calendar, 5 larger hooks for keys attached below the basket. I use the basket for short term storage of papers and notes I don’t want to misplace. The holder sticks to the side of my refrigerator just inside the back door – making it easy to (hopefully) put the keys where they belong.
Did you make the picture full screen?
Just in case you don’t know how look at the bottom right corner there’s an icon that looks like an open white frame. If you click on it the picture goes to full screen
Thank you so much in bringing back the happy memories I had as a child with my grandparents. I loved them dearly and was so fortunate to enjoy them on up to my first year of marriage. Granny use to make my dresses on her old treadle machine from feedsacks. I remember when she told my father that Kathleen was a Two feedsacks girl now requiring more material for her clothes. I had to make all my clothes while I was in school and in nursing school and I got tired of sewing but now retired I’m trying to learn to quilt and your tutorials are making it such a fun learning time. Thank you again for bringing my memories back to me.
Pat, I L♡VE the video!!! Thank you for including it. The ruler for the HST is genius & I can’t wait to get one! Quick question about the ruler…does the bottom edge of the triangle go on the 3.5 inch line or is your stitching on the 3.5 inch line? Thank you for all your hard work putting these quilt-along together!
I have finally decided to do my grandmas kitchen blocks in red and white. I am sure I can make this happen as I have lots to select from. Thank you Pat Sloan for providing this wonderful opportunity to motivate and cause success in the quilting community .
I liked the video. I have been quilting many years but can always teach an old dog new tricks. I don’t remember a key holder as we live in small community and never locked doors at that time.
I enjoyed your video and cutting tips. Perhaps the camera could be closer to your work surface for my older eyes! This is the year I enroll in Medicare.
I’m a grandmother of four. We have a mirrored keyholder near the front door. Checking lipstick and smiles before grabbing the keys to leave the house is important!
The video was great! It was full of good reminders (press to the dark, trim that fabric up because it gets wonky after a few cuts, etc) and it was fun to see your extras you placed on top so we can see how it can be changed up! Awesome! AND, it’s always fun to hear you talk about the blocks/quilts–your enthusiasm is contagious!!!! Thanks, Pat!!!
Today would have been my grandpas birthday and your post reminded me of keys and grandpa. Shortly after they moved from the farm into town, I was suppose to walk from school to their house. They weren’t home when I got there. But grandpa had very thoughtfully left a note taped to the front door. It read the key is under the brush! Don’t you love it?
Thank you for making this video. I have learned an easier method of trimming up my half square triangles. I also love the story of the key holder and your grandpa’s “special” holder. During my 45 years I was very blessed to have many grandparents with whom very special memories were made. As fifth generation on my mom’s side and third on my dad’s and two grandmother in-laws. I got to meet and learn from several grandmothers. It is interesting trying to decide on how to start my color choices. I’m looking forward to getting started and sharing my stories.
The video is useful, and it’s nice to see your alternatives.
I don’t remember my close by grandparents having a key holder- but the ones who lived in another state did. They moved into a mobile home park when grandpa no longer was able to do so much manual labor… and they managed the park. Not a fancy holder, it held keys to other mobile homes, and keys to some storage sheds, and keys to some gates etc. Were not their own keys but keys they were responsible for holding for others.
My Grandmother in Alabama had the same doghouse with “key puppies” with their names on it. She was very stern and my two sisters and I would take turns putting Grandmother in the doghouse! I was blessed with 3 sets of grandparents. (My dads parents were divorced and remarried). So each had their own names…Gramma/Grampa, Grandmother/Grandfather and Mamaw/Papaw.