I was looking through some old magazines last night that I bought at the thrift store.
One is "Quilt Almanac" 1986 and it only says Vol 6, No 1, so I assume it wasn't a monthly magazine.
Anyway, there is an article in there titled, "From Quilting Bee to Computer" and its talking about how times had changed from the old days of quilting bees with your neighbors and how people now(well,then, in 86,lol) talked to their quilting friends on the phone long distance and by mail. The authors point was that she had more quilting friends out of state than in state, and it wouldn't have been like that in the old days, where all the neighbors got together for quilting bees.
The very last paragraph is what I wanted to share with you guys. Here it is, word for word:
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if all the quilters in America could sit together at one large quilting bee? Since that is an impossible dream, let's remember to communicate with each other in the methods we have available to us. The lines of communication are changing as fast as the styles of our art. Who knows....by the year 2000, all quilters may be linked together by computers!"
I thought of you guys when I read this, and had to laugh out loud, LOL. I just wonder if the lady who wrote this is enjoying the computer like we do now. Her name was Caron L. Mosley.
We really are lucky to have this wonderful method of communicating. I know I wouldn't know a tenth of what I know or the supplies that I have without the internet. And I wouldn't have near the friends!