Why did you start quilting
08-06-2010, 09:56 PM
#121
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Originally Posted by Nancy O.
Quilting has helped me tremendously after losing my sister to cancer at 67 yrs Feb.08 and my mother at 91 yrs back in April 2010. I took care of my mother when she broke her hip and she died 6 months after from her breast cancer that had returned and spread to other organs. She died very peacefully Thank God and fast. I love......... to quilt.
08-07-2010, 12:18 AM
#122
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Have you crochet clothes for a 2inch doll? Full dress, panties and a bonnet, I have. Like you I did a lot of crocheting doll clothes all sizes and had to get away from it for a while. I love needle turn applique but am now trying machine Applique to finish quilts that are backing up.
08-07-2010, 04:46 AM
#123
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Originally Posted by Annya
Nancy, have you thought of using T-shirts from your grandson's favorite teams as well as his own. There should be other people who have them, who would be willing to give the T-shirts so you can finish the quilt before he turns 21. Maybe do it for his 12st. It would be a great surprise to see his favorite teams all together in a quilt.
08-07-2010, 10:43 AM
#124
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My aunt got me started in high school with a quilt, which i was hand sewing, i didn't take to the hand sewing, i started machine quilting when i was about 21 and have been doing it since, as well as small projects like bags, table runners and gifts. Hopefully i will get to pass it to my daughter when she gets older.
08-07-2010, 11:47 AM
#125
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I got started in 2004, thanks to my Dear aunt, mom and daughter. My aunt found out that she had lung cancer and passed away within two months.
When I had gone through my divorce ten years previous, I had moved in with my mom across the states. My aunt had never driven before and after she became widowed, my mom would pick her up on Friday nights afte work to take her shopping. When me and my three children moved in with mom, we went with them. We would take her to Joann Fabrics to buy fabric and she would buy bunches and quilted like crazy! I was envious of the fabric cause I hadn't been sewing any clothes in years. My mom and aunt kept telling me I should quilt and of course I said no. She passed away from cancer in 2004 and I decided I was going to learn to quilt (mom did too). So, with mom being in Indiana and me in Montana, we constantly were on the phone and emailing pictures to each other and taught ourselves to quilt!
My first quilt I signed on the back "inspired by Aunt Shirley and encouraged by Mom and Deandra"...
It was cut out with scissors cause I had never heard of a rotary cutter! I thought pinwheels just had to be half-sqyare triangles....didn't know about the light/dark thing, so they look nothing like they should! It was a scrap quilt, but the most-loved one I have ever made! I made it mainly with clothing scraps from clothes and curtains and such that I had made for my kids over the years. I had quilted it and used a ton of stencils....but I love it!
Since then, I have made well over fifty quilts and tons of purses and other things!
When I had gone through my divorce ten years previous, I had moved in with my mom across the states. My aunt had never driven before and after she became widowed, my mom would pick her up on Friday nights afte work to take her shopping. When me and my three children moved in with mom, we went with them. We would take her to Joann Fabrics to buy fabric and she would buy bunches and quilted like crazy! I was envious of the fabric cause I hadn't been sewing any clothes in years. My mom and aunt kept telling me I should quilt and of course I said no. She passed away from cancer in 2004 and I decided I was going to learn to quilt (mom did too). So, with mom being in Indiana and me in Montana, we constantly were on the phone and emailing pictures to each other and taught ourselves to quilt!
My first quilt I signed on the back "inspired by Aunt Shirley and encouraged by Mom and Deandra"...
It was cut out with scissors cause I had never heard of a rotary cutter! I thought pinwheels just had to be half-sqyare triangles....didn't know about the light/dark thing, so they look nothing like they should! It was a scrap quilt, but the most-loved one I have ever made! I made it mainly with clothing scraps from clothes and curtains and such that I had made for my kids over the years. I had quilted it and used a ton of stencils....but I love it!
Since then, I have made well over fifty quilts and tons of purses and other things!
08-07-2010, 12:37 PM
#126
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Originally Posted by Annya
Have you crochet clothes for a 2inch doll? Full dress, panties and a bonnet, I have. Like you I did a lot of crocheting doll clothes all sizes and had to get away from it for a while. I love needle turn applique but am now trying machine Applique to finish quilts that are backing up.
08-07-2010, 12:38 PM
#127
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After retirement my husband saw a program on TV and went to Peggy's Quilt Shop. Next thing I knew, I had a Janome and got started thru a quilt program and now I have material I have to use up. Wish someone in Cookeville would just give me another machine so I can get our daughter interested in sewing, too. Hmmm
08-07-2010, 12:42 PM
#128
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I took quilting classes back in the early 80s. My 4 daughters were in high school and I finally had some "me" time. In the 90s I returned to school, the job market and hung up my rotary cutter. Now I am a grandma and have unpacked my rotary cutter and I am here to stay!
08-19-2010, 08:37 PM
#129
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Well i had been around quilting people as long as i could remember. Thefirst and only quilt i hav e actually made is a baby quilt which took 7 years for me to finish 20 plush years ago. when i retired 2 years ago i joined a sewing group and the started a quilt.I have a lap quilt pieced , but procrastanating. I SEWW ALOT.so trying to get caught up on all my projects so i can really get going on the quilting.
08-19-2010, 09:59 PM
#130
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My great grandma, grandma, mom and all the aunts have always quilted and they were all very elaborate and fancy. I didn't want anything to do with it. Years later, one of my friends, who was a quilter, had made a Yellow Brick Road out of the most beautiful fall fabrics. I took one look at it and thought "hmmm...that one doesn't look too hard or too elaborate" and I LOVED the fabric. So I went to the LQS, got the fabric and pattern and a ruler and a cutting mat and came home and made my first one. That was almost 10 years ago and I've been hooked ever since. Still won't do fancy or elaborate and refuse to do applique :)
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