This quilt board helps me to "get out of myself" in a wonderful way. Otherwise, I do sew with a group of ladies on Wednesday, and attend at quilt guild once per month. But I love to communicate with other quilters via the internet. Thanks for being here everyone!

I live alone, but next door to my DD & family. My loneliness has been reduced by huge degrees because of you guys!

I'm sorry you lost your sister. ((hug))

I am sorry for the loss of your sister. I have always been a loner being on this quilt board helps me meet people with like minds

I've always been outgoing and sociable but since my boys grew up I find that I love being alone to do what I want to do which is mostly quilting :D
For so many years I was super busy non-stop. I love having time alone. Family time is still very important, of course! :D
I miss my quilt group. A dozen of us used to get together once a month but after 15 or so years, people moved, dropped out etc, and it finally just fizzled. Our local guild is just too big for me.

I'm more social now then when I didn't quilt. I joined a guild, started a community quilting class, plan and host a quilt show every year with my friend, plan and hold workshops for fast easy quilts, and drive to Paducah every year to be with thousands of more quilters. I do more quilting stuff then actual quilting. LOL.

None of my neighbors quilt so I rarely visit with them or see them, most are at jobs all day so no one is home to visit.

I am sorry for the loss of your sister. I've always been a loner and hermit. Quilting has made me get out and socialize a whole lot more because I belong to guilds. The really small guild I belong to gets together every wednesday and sews. I'll be happy when I'm close enough to go sew with them at least twice a month.

My sis (who has always lived a half a continent or more from me, but is my twin separated by birth) and I have talked about loner/lonely. We decided we like to be alone because, "Hey, I like myself!" That being said, quilting can be a project done in solitude or multitude, whatever fits your particular status at any given time. And I am both loner and outgoing on any given day.

Ten years is a long time to be without your sister. I am sorry for your loss.

I am sorry for your loss. I can't imagine losing a sister. I am basically a loner by nature. I can only take being in groups of people in small doses and I have a few friends whom I see occasionally. I don't like shopping - except fabric shopping! - or crowds, and am usually glad to get home again.

Well, after a friend of 17 years just stop having anything to do with me, I refused to be hurt like that ever again, so now I keep my distance. I won't let people get close to me. So all I have now is my computer, quilting, and other crafts. My sons hardly ever call me or visit. So I guess Internet friends is all I have in my life at this time.

To this day, I have no ideal why my friend stop having anything to do with me, I ask her if I had offended her and she said no, that I had done nothing, but I must of did something to hurt her and she never gave me a chance to say I'm sorry. After 3 years trying and crying to find out what I did, I just gave up.

At that time I had loss a lot of weight and became much smaller than her, but if she could only see me now, I've just about put it all back on from depression.

I've told people about this and they seem to think the weight loss might be the reason she quit having anything to do with me, I just don't know...

But to this day my heart aches, no more close friends for me thank you!

So with that said, I guess I am a loner and just trying to find something to do to fill the void... :-(

So Sorry for your loss, I know what it's like to loose a sister, I lost my sister to drowning in 2009 she was my only sibling...

Sorry for the loss of your sister. :(
It's good that you can think of her as you quilt! :)