When the little girl's hands grew big enough to hold a tiny needle, her NaNa showed her how to poke thread through the eye of the needle and make the two long strings into a knot. The little girl started attaching her pretty piles and designs together with long crooked stitches and wads of tangled thread. Occasionally, the tiny tender fingers of the little girl would get poked by the sharp needle and bleed. NaNa said that was ok and to keep working to get better and better. In the process of making beautiful things, sometimes you get hurt.
The little girl did keep working to get better and better, and she did get hurt many times. When she was big enough to sit at her mother's sewing machine, she made some pretty strange creations and jammed the sewing machine about a million times. One day, when she turned 21 years old, instead of going to the bar, she got a sewing machine of her own. That night was the first of many nights that the girl sewed instead of sleeping.
My name is Juliann Rager, and I am that little girl!! Since receiving my first machine 17 years ago, I have been sewing and quilting and teaching and learning. Quilting has been the unifying constant in all my creative endeavors. Once Upon A Time Quilts was born "to create beautiful and functional heirloom quality quilts that serve as visual and tactile cues for telling the unique story of lives and events."
I believe that every life is a beautiful story, and within that beautiful story are endless threads of other anecdotes. Using clothing, textiles, artifacts, and even paper, I can help tell your story or the story of a loved one. Designing your quilt is an interactive process that starts with you telling me the story! The quilt top design will reflect special qualities and characteristics of the life or event.
This blog is where I will share my projects and the accompanying stories. You may also visit Once Upon A Time Quilts on Facebook.
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