Stormy Stitches

It was a Sunday afternoon several years ago and the whole family was sitting around the dinner table when my mom randomly says, "I think I want to change my name to Stormy!" My immediate response was, "Because you want to be a stripper?" (No offense to anyone actually named Stormy! I actually love the name and have considered naming my daughter that if I ever had children.) I don't remember where she came up with that. She was a nurse, so she might have had a patient named Stormy or something. I guess she thought Stormy was a much more fun name than Her actual name, Kris! She was of course kidding and just being random and funny, but it stuck. My husband at the time (now ex, but still friends) started calling her Stormy and never called her Kris again! I still called her mom, but would refer to her as Stormy when talking about her. Sadly, and devastatingly she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer and passed away January 3, 2012. This turned my world upsi

Hi everyone! Welcome to my first blog post. I'm sure there will be a natural evolution of this blog, but the idea for now is to tell my story and my quilting journey. I never dreamed I would be a quilter - I'm much too modern for that nonsense right? After all, I'm a 30 something year old lawyer, who loves to travel, not a retired grandma who needs something to fill her time. Ha! I couldn't have been more wrong. In fact, quilting is definitely not an old lady's game and there are plenty of rock star quilters in their 20s and 30s. Some of my favorites are Angela Walters , Judi Madsen , and Allison Harris . Truthfully, quilting has changed my life and has gotten me through some of the hardest years. I began quilting because of tragedy - actually a few tragedies - some my own and some others. But that has led to love, peace, and now a passion. Over the next few weeks, I will tell you all more of my journey and also start to post some pictures of my quilts, so you c