Hello from Fairbanks, Alaska
08-10-2011, 02:31 PM
#63
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Western NYS
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Welcome to the board, now WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR???
(lol) Honestly, I don't know how you could have stayed away from quilting for so long, if you knew you wanted to go that way!
Almost 30 years ago, I bought myself a knitting machine (from the "proceeds" of a divorce), with the intent that it would be for my retirement. Since that time, technology has changed so much I'm afraid that purchase won't have been worth it. Add to that, I took up quilting, and love it! I hope someday to have a longarm machine. Trust me, it will not be packed up under the bed, like the knitting machine is.
Hope to see some pics from you soon!
(lol) Honestly, I don't know how you could have stayed away from quilting for so long, if you knew you wanted to go that way!
Almost 30 years ago, I bought myself a knitting machine (from the "proceeds" of a divorce), with the intent that it would be for my retirement. Since that time, technology has changed so much I'm afraid that purchase won't have been worth it. Add to that, I took up quilting, and love it! I hope someday to have a longarm machine. Trust me, it will not be packed up under the bed, like the knitting machine is.
Hope to see some pics from you soon!
09-13-2011, 08:44 AM
#64
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: near Niagara Falls, NY
Posts: 3,075
My welcome is a little late, but still just as warm. It seems there are quite a few quilters from the Land of the Midnight Sun on the QB! I notice because my brother and his wife live in Fairbanks too.
Enjoy being on the Quilting Board Kay!
Enjoy being on the Quilting Board Kay!
09-17-2011, 07:36 AM
#66
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: nevada
Posts: 827
Originally Posted by KVz
Originally Posted by shnnn
Originally Posted by KVz
What a great group of folks this is!
To introduce myself, I retired from teaching in May and gave myself permission to be a quilter as a retirement gift. I have sewed all my life and made small projects that could be considered quilting, but I didn't want to take the full plunge until I had more time. I'm here now and thoroughly enjoying myself, but I'm having trouble focusing on one thing at a time. I want to do machine applique, machine quilting, piecing, landscape quilting, ..... Boy is this fun!!
To introduce myself, I retired from teaching in May and gave myself permission to be a quilter as a retirement gift. I have sewed all my life and made small projects that could be considered quilting, but I didn't want to take the full plunge until I had more time. I'm here now and thoroughly enjoying myself, but I'm having trouble focusing on one thing at a time. I want to do machine applique, machine quilting, piecing, landscape quilting, ..... Boy is this fun!!
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