Originally Posted by
joanelizbay
Wow GramE...You are one fantastic woman!! To take a "roadblock" and make it into something as wonderful as you make is remarkable...Ive always been crafty, making things since I was a little girl..My grandmother was my inspiration...she was confined to her house but always had her big wooden quilt rack set up in her dining room and would sew every day by hand. Back then she didn't really have a "store" to go shopping in but I would run to Mattinglys or Ben Franklins if she needed thread or anything. I hope that if I EVER get to the point where I cant get out of the house that someone will go to the store for me, although I "might" have enough fabric to last me forever! LOL. I wish my sister would get a hobby of anykind. She is a widow, 68 had ceberal palsey when a child but still can function with her left hand and partically her right but she wont get a computer, wont sew, wont paint, nothing... she takes a walk twice a day, goes to church on Sundays when she can drive but other than that nothing.....Id be crazy...
You inspire me for sure! SO glad you found our little boom group to join..I love just reading the crazy chatter back and forth and knowing if I need quilting help all I have to do is ask...This is about the 10th boom Ive been in..NOT because I need the blocks but because I love these ladies!! They are "friends" and make me laugh or cry...
Dear Joanelizbay, boy did you stir up some memories. Such beautiful remembrances from time spent with your grandmother. My daughter went to kindergarten & at least 1st and 2nd grade wearing Ben Franklin flat folds! She loved school shopping because it meant picking out fabric. It was such a sad day when the last Ben Franklin closed about 20 miles from here.
I am in a couple of support groups who have women with nothing to do. I wish I was closer to many of them so I could show them how easy it is. I try to encourage them, but it is difficult when every response is nope or I can't. And I connect with 12 grands, 4 sisters in far away states via computer, so I'm grateful my husband thought he could distract me with an iPad. Could he ever.
Have a a blessed day. And if you would send me the whirligig fiasco, I'd give it a go at it.
