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Old 11-24-2014, 08:08 AM
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EmiliasNana
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My grandmother did everything: sewed, crocheted, knitted, tatted, embroidered, hooked wool rugs (used to buy garage sale wool items, remove the dye and dye her own, then cut and use), but she only tied whole cloth quilts made with locally made wool batts (still in business in Appleton, WI, I am told). She left me her treadle and sewing chest, and taught me to tat.

My mom only knit: fabulous kid sweaters with angora embellishments, lots of hats and mittens for us kids and even our friends. My husband's mom only knit too. I swear she could knit an entire sweater in a weekend.

I am the only quilter that I know of. I have sewn ever since I was in sixth grade (a friend's mom taught the two of us one summer). I took every Home Ec. class I could in Jr. High and H.S. and majored in Home Ec. in college. I took my first quilting class in 1984, after our last was born, and it is still in the exact place I stopped after the class. It was a sampler, quilt as you go and HAND QUILTED. I got two blocks quilted and all the blocks pieced. Every time I take it out to "finish" it, I just can't. My quilting is too good to take out, yet I hate the thought of quilting up the rest of the squares. Someday............... I really didn't start quilting on a regular basis until 2009, when I realized you could machine quilt on a domestic machine. There has been no turning back LOL I recently bought a Tiara II and hope to take my FMQing up a notch with it. I used to do all kinds of crafts but pretty much stick to quilting, knitting and embroidery now.

None of our daughters-in-law sew or seem interested, and neither does our daughter, though she is very creative in other venues: cooking, decorating, crafts. I really think our son and his wife would make a great team. She is artistic and he is a computer genius, creative, and a perfectionist, but does woodworking instead. I really can see a correlation between the two: woodworking and quilting. My husband too, does woodworking.
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