“You can get into some that will take you 300 to 400 hours.”

“Most quilts are going to be 40 hours or more of actual work between piecing the top, quilting and putting the binding on,” Lura notes. Each hand-made, ethereal wonder is a patient practice. Although, it is no easy feat to create such a masterpiece. Lura stays busy as orders keep rolling in. Pretty soon I made one for every child in that family.” Fast forward several years, and now she already has an order request for two t-shirt quilts as graduation gifts in 2023. “I made my first t-shirt quilt for someone in Mountain Brook. “I got a call one day from someone who wanted to know if I could do a t-shirt quilt,” she says. Just for fun Lura started making quilts because she valued watching her labor of love bless other people by preserving what they loved. When I did that, I started quilting for other people.” “I had the opportunity to buy a long arm. People actually used scissors to cut each piece out, she jokes. The methods of doing quilting then were not as advanced as they are today.”īack then Lura explains that people used cardboard cutouts to trace patterns onto fabric. “When I was traveling out of town for long lengths of time, I got into quilting. “Crafts were always like a hobby,” Lura says with a smile. Stephen makes and repairs clocks whereas, Lura creates quilts. Thirty-three years of joyful union later, Stephen and Lura tackle retirement’s abyss of boredom together by practicing their hobbies. Ironically, they both worked for Bellsouth at the time, but they didn’t meet through work. The adorable couple met in the 80s through a small group in Shelby County. Together, Stephen and Lura preserve the beauty in vintage treasures by creating memorable pieces that others cherish. As the two delicately toil away, one can hear the melodious charm of each clock’s ballad on the north stroke of the hour. Hours pass as Lura’s nimble fingers weave vibrant hues through the fabric with every prick of the needle.

His wife, Lura, is likely next door, carefully crafting the stich on a quilt’s applique. On a simple afternoon one might find Stephen Campbell fine tuning a grandfather clock’s moon dial in his workshop.

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