Frances Tatum's mother taught her how to quilt when she was 10 or 11, but then her mother, Liela Martin, was always quilting and keeping busy.

"She was doin' somethin' like this all the time, all the time," Tatum said. "(She was) makin' somethin' continually. It was either stuffed animals, it was either quiltin' or she's makin' diaper bags; she's makin' bonnets, pot holders - we've got them by the glory. And she was doin' somethin' like that all the time."

Now 88, Martin is cared for 24 hours a day, seven days a week by Tatum and her two sisters, Barbara Smith and Kathryn Tatum. And while they're watching their mother, the daughters quilt.

"We're never idle. We're doing something all the time, all three of us," Frances Tatum said. "We're either quiltin' or either we're piecin' 'em or somethin'."

Martin no longer can quilt, but using just the material at her home, Tatum and her sisters have made more than 100 baby quilts and a few larger quilts as well.

"She has all this material piled up there down at the house," Tatum said. "We're just tryin' our best to get it all worked up."

Tatum said she usually goes to her mother's house around 5 p.m. and quilts until 10 or 10:30 p.m. Then the next morning she picks it up again and quilts until dinner time. A baby quilt takes two or three days to make, but a large quilt takes much longer.

"I enjoy working with quilts and puttin' 'em together and quiltin' and everything," Tatum said. "(But) It's work. There ain't nothin' easy about it. It is work."

Linda Walker, owner of Unique Designs in Gainesville, recently opened up a room to display and sell the quilts.

"These quilts are one of a kind, they are true Americana quilts," Walker said. "They come up with their own designs and they are adorable."

Martin came up with many of the designs, and some of the quilts for sale are ones she made when she was still able to quilt.

"She could take a pattern, she could look at a pattern, cut it out and make it," Tatum said. "She's really good at stuff like that."

One of the quilts she designed features a woman with a guitar and a man standing in front of her, with a block pattern surrounding the scene. Another features an old pattern called the double wedding ring, but altered by Martin to include a star pattern.

"Mama just usually she'll just take a piece of paper and cut her a pattern out like she wants it," Tatum said. "She'll just take a piece of brown paper and cut her a pattern out like she wants it and that's what she goes by."

Each of the quilts is unique, and the patterns include flower garden, snowball, block and fan. Many of the quilts also features shapes such as gingerbread men, animals and even robots.

"A lot of them are different. There are all kinds in here," Tatum said.

The quilts will be on sale at Unique Designs through Christmas, and all but $5 for each quilt goes to Tatum and her sisters to help keep their mother.

"I was just so taken by these dear ladies trying desperately to keep Mama in her house," Walker said. "It just wrenched my heart. But even more, I love these quilts. ... It's like a museum to me. Let's let people see them before they all get distributed out."