The Kentucky Quilter

03/06/2026

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10/09/2025

ATTENTION all my local quilters, friends, and family!; I am hosting the first Loucon Quilt For Kids retreat! December 4-6. Registration opens soon, but you can message me and let me know if you'd like to come. Even if you have never sewn before, come on! I will be teaching basic sewing and quilting skills for those who want to learn! Quilt kits are provided! It's going to be a blast. Come and stay in our beautiful Turner Lodge , enjoy great meals, snacks, and wonderful fellowship. Check out the link below:

Join us for our first annual Quilt For Kids Retreat. Over the course of two days we will be making quilts for kids in need. Registration information to be announced soon. Contact us with questions in the meantime.

07/19/2025

Drops August 1st! Visit www.bellesofblue.com or www.soundbiscuit.com for more information.

12/21/2024

As some of you know, I work in the office at Camp Loucon in Leitchfield, Kentucky. I was asked to make a special thank you gift for our summer 2024 camp director. I managed to find enough Loucon tee shirts, including vintage, in order to make this beautiful queen size quilt. He was thrilled! I am making two more to hang in our Turner Lodge where our quilt groups as well as others, come for retreat. I have a feeling I'm about to get really busy! Lets just say that there are a lot of campers from years past, who have a lot of Loucon tee shirts! Lol
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08/07/2024

My beautiful granddaughter Kaylee Carter heading out to her Sr year of high school this morning. Where has time gone? 🥲 on another note, she kind of looks like someone I saw in the mirror in 1979 although I was never that tall! Lol

07/18/2024

Here's my latest "evening relaxation" project. I love curling up on the couch or in my chair, watch a movie and sew. Believe it or not, I started this one 5 weeks ago, and yes, it is by hand. I will machine quilt it and put it on our king size bed for a while. My stitches aren't perfect, but they are getting better. I learned the trick is to use a small, short needle. I'll post the finished project later.

12/29/2023

I am working on something really special while I'm waiting on my back to get better. This old quilt was made by my Great-Grandma Dollie Moss for a baby gift to my cousin J.D. Eller not too long before she passed away. Our "Nanny" Moss was very special. I knew and remember her well, as I was 14 when she passed. I used to stay with her a lot, and every time mom had a baby ( except for the last two) she came to help out. She was always after me to learn to sew, and once cut a shoe box full of tiny blocks for me to make a quilt. Being the 11 year old Tom boy I was, I only had maybe two blocks finished the next time she saw me. Lol, after gently scolding me, she packed the box in her suitcase and took them back home. The next time I saw her, she gave them back to me, beautifully hand-pieced in a quilt top, which was later quilted by my dad's mom after Nanny had passed.( It too needs some repair and I will show it later.)
JD asked me to try and save this treasure of his, so today, I have been taking it apart, hand -sewing rips and replacing old, worn away blocks, getting it ready for quilting. This labor of love will be a gorgeous heirloom when I am finished. Sweet, sweet memories have been coming back to me as I work. It is so strange to see my stitches next to Nanny's. Mine are not as straight as hers, but I can just see her smiling, and I know she would be proud, as well as amazed to know that I grew up to be quilter. Of course she would get after me for not using a thimble! Lol 😁 More pictures to come! Bonnie Ruble Eller

11/18/2023

Look what is coming home with me! The Kentucky Quilter going to be sewing in style now! 🤗🙂❤️🧵🪡

09/17/2023

All finished. What a fun quilt, but not fun to make! 🤣🤣

09/17/2023

Another one from start to finish! Whew! This one took me a while. My niece Monica Sanders had this idea for an old time Dresden Plate done in wild crazy colors! I think it turned out pretty neat! It's a wonderful soft, fluffy winter quilt. Her girls are going to love this!