aprinM i loved reading your story so I continued on and read them all. I found the QB through a penfriend. An american naval ship called in my town in a
Australia and my kids were fishing off the wharf and (skiteing a bit) invited 3 of them home to see out pet kangaroo and emu. Really lovely young men and I got the address of ones mother and I wrote to her. That would have been in the 1980s. She has since passed on but our families have remained friends. I learned most of my quilting skills from different members ( how to paper piece) and the mystery quilts. Step by step.