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Quilted Duvet Covers

He was just a kid, but a kid old enough to know he shouldn’t wander away from his family, especially deep in the woods of Arkansas.  He was one of 12 kids traveling with a group of other  families, with even more kids, heading west in hopes of finding a better life.  They may not have missed him for a very long time.  If they did they probably weren’t able to go back to find him.

But someone else found him, alone and hungry in the woods, and took him in as their own.  An old black couple raising a young white boy would have raised a lot of eyebrows in the mid 1800’s, if anyone had lived or passed by close enough to notice.

When he was a young man, they told him he needed to go and find his ‘own“kind’ because if he stayed with them for longer he would never be accepted by his own people.

Shortly after leaving, he started following a creek downstream.  It was while walking beside the creek that he met a young woman from a nearby Cherokee tribe.  She invited him to come live with her tribe.  They fell in love and wanted to marry,  but the tribal rules forbid a Cherokee woman from marrying a white man, unless he had remained with the tribe for an extended period of time.  He stayed and they married.  His name was James Richardson and he married Mary Ann Rogers.  They met on the banks of Tulip Creek in Arkansas.  They were my Great Grandparents.

           That is why I named my quilted duvet covers “Tulip Creek Treasures.
I started making them as a relief for stress,  yeah I know, but they are beautiful, and it works.  Pictures will be added soon.

PS For those who aren't sure what a duvet is; it is sort of like a giant pillow case for a comforter.  It keeps your comforters clean and allows you to change the look now and then.  And mine look like beautiful quilts.