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Old 04-13-2011, 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Kim_
That is too funny! I was so ready to come back to the US. It was a good experience, but it definitely made me glad to be an American!
not me...I was having great fun touring all over Europe for those 3 years....I made great friends in Sorrento, Brindisi, and more up and down all the coasts...I was never at home in Pinetamare, always packing up the kids and heading out on train, subway, or car....it was a great time!
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I've been to these cities a few times and only found a few fabric stores in Rome and they were extremely expensive so I didn't purchase anything.
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Old 04-13-2011, 10:12 AM
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I am posting some info that might help. received this from a contact/friend that lives in Italy. website of national association, the addresses of shops www.quiltitalia.it/////per Rome (Lazio) asks the delegated regional anne.justo @ fastwebnet.it For Venice (Veneto) rosettacorbetta @ yahoo. com For Florence (Tuscany) [email protected].
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Old 04-13-2011, 04:29 PM
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not me...I was having great fun touring all over Europe for those 3 years....I made great friends in Sorrento, Brindisi, and more up and down all the coasts...I was never at home in Pinetamare, always packing up the kids and heading out on train, subway, or car....it was a great time![/quote]


I had fun, too. It was the first time I was overseas and I meant that I did not appreciate all of the conveniences and familiarity of being in the US. After not being in the US for so long, it made me really appreciate my own country. Glad you had a great experience!
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Been back in the US for almost 10 years. While stationed in Germany for 9 before that found quilting cotton very expensive. It was inported from the US. Kind of takes the fun out of it when it was the same stuff I seen in a quilting catalog only 4 times as much.
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Oh No...Not Italy. Germany is not much better in my area but I found a member that is willing to take me to a LQS in Bavaria but she even admits getting a great deal of her stuff in the U.S. I miss home so mcuh!
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Old 04-14-2011, 02:43 PM
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We were at Bitburg GE for 9 years. I loved it but the LQS fabric was 36 Mark a meter. That was 10 years ago or more. We mail ordered everything. I do have some very pretty shirting that a friend gave me. But it was clothing cotton.
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I was in Florence many years ago, before I was a quilter, and found beautiful tapestries at good prices in a little shop. Maybe you can get something like that, made in Italy, that you could incorporate into a quilt. Just one idea.
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