Our story

When Auntie Rei wanted to provide some love and support to her nieces and nephews on their wedding day, she opted to make some homemade quilts for them. They were loved so much that she decided to share her talents with everyone and Auntie Rei’s Quilting was born.

That is only part of the story though. 

Auntie Rei has been around sewing and quilting her entire life. She got her first sewing box from her grandma at age 10 and started with cross-stitching. She had a love/hate relationship with hand sewing right from the start: loved the creativity, hated the hand work. She subsequently tried clothes and stuffed animals.  Both just didn't fit her personality and even gave her anxiety enough to quit sewing for years besides basic fixes of small things. It wasn't until her friends started having babies that she remembered her roots and fell into baby quilts.

You see some of her earliest memories are from sitting under her grandmother's quilting frame and pushing the needle back up for her as her grandma tied quilts with yarn. Rei spent years helping move squares of fabric around on her grandma's basement floor to get the color schemes just right for her grandma's fleece blanket of the day so her grandma didn't have to bend up and down over and over. And Rei had always loved laying under a quilt hand made by her great grandmother at night. You could say that quilting was in her veins growing up. So by the time Rei got her first machine as a high school graduation gift from her same quilting grandma she didn't know it yet, but I think her grandma did, she was destined for things non-hand sewy or sleeve fitty or stuffed but with weird legs. She made baby blankets for friends, and her own kids, and even for a stranger that her sister told her was in need of a special Harley Davidson themed quilt. Eventually she worked her way up to twin size blankets for her own growing kids and a king size Christmas present for her best friend. She literally spent 10 years packing, unpacking, and packing back up again the same queen size quilt for herself every year for a ladies crafting weekend and didn't finish it until her oldest child was 20 years old! Quilting has been a background hobby running through every bit of Auntie Rei's life just popping up here to fix a pillow and there to celebrate a new birth all while she struggled through the young children years of her kids and finally blossoming into more confidence when she got a little time and space to practice more complex patterns as her kids got older and her nieces and nephews started getting married. So here we are in the present! Enjoying the craft, always learning more, and sharing it with the world.