A New Quilter In Heaven...

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 Yesterday, our Coffee Club and our entire quilt guild received sad news.

Our dear friend and my mentor, Flo Shannon died.

Coffee Club (l-r) Flo, Joni, Nora, Fay, Kathy, me and Brenda

Flo passed on Wednesday evening at her home.

I saw her Tuesday night at our guild meeting and thankfully, I had a chance

to speak with her that night. We've all be concerned for her for some time, as

she seemed to be getting more and more frail, but we never expected this.

Always a good listener/

Flo was one of the charter members of our guild, and she made it her goal to 

welcome all new members, get to know them and help teach them more about 

quilting. I wrote about her in August 2010 when I made my first, sad attempt

 at hand applique'. She told me I needed to redo my work because it wasn't good 

enough. I railed and carped here, but I redid my work and eventually finished 

the block into a lap quilt that received honorable mention at our last quilt show.

Photo courtesy of Linda Spencer

You have seen the applique' projects I've completed since that first try, and I

attribute my enthusiasm to the encouragement and knowledge I received from Flo.

She often told me how proud she was to be my teacher and see the progress I made.

Then, she'd lower her head and smile at me with her twinkling Irish eyes.
I'll never forget this look.

She was a good listener, a great friend, an adventurous and talented woman with a 

colorful  past, and a true educator in the art of quilting. She was never stingy with 

her lessons and couldn't wait to share everything she had every learned or done.

Today will be a sad day at Coffee Club...our first day without our dear Flo.

We will all remember her, share our memories and raise our coffee cups in her honor.

She will be sorely missed.

We love you, Flo.