BYC SEWING/QUILTING CLUB

[CedarRidgeChicks]

Zahboo..

..see what good enablers we all are!!..and the journey begins!!

 

[Zahboo]

I wish I had started before Winter Break. School starts tomrrow and I'll be widddddde open with FFA Fbla FCCla and fll until spring break. Never join every club your school offers just because friends are in them, you get very tired. FFA and foreign Language League is the only ones I am doing 2nd sememster

 

[Zahboo]

Something tells me this would come in handy, but a litttttle out of budget

http://fayetteville.craigslist.org/art/1536813763.html




I just wanted to add ty CL I just got a bunch of batting for $2. It's Extra Loft, so it's a little thick, but cheap.

 

[Zahboo]

Sorry to keep posting. I have a question. Is the Singer Sewing Machine Model #413 any good? I found someone with one for a good price, it works and is in nice shape. I didn't know if it was okay for quilting. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[highcountrychickens]

May I join?
I just cleaned out our cute little storage shed, and while going through a few college boxes, I found a quilt that my Grandmother made for me when I was 6. It utterly turned my heart over. She was this amazing lady who would knit a pair of mittens while at the theater watching a movie - every Christmas one of the banks in her lifelong small Minnesota town put up "Joyce's Mitten Tree", where every single child in town was remembered. They could go through the season to try to find their pair on the tree, and on Christmas eve, they could go pick their mittens off of it. Knit? Yes, she could knit... but OH the quilts she made! There was something about them that made them instantly security blankets. Opening that box and seeing the familiar corner of my beloved little quilt brought her back for a moment with her wonderful hooting laugh, her deft hands kneading bread dough seemingly on their own, and her careful instructions about how to make a marzipan christmas city without once touching the candy.
I grew up in the Rockies - a long way from her. No little girl loved horses, the mountains or purple more than I did, but as one of many of her Grandchildren, it was an assumption of mine that I was just one of the gang, a funny blonde tomboy who loved to fish with her on our rare visits to her lake house in Northern Minnesota... a description that, with a hair color and gender description edit, would fit each my cousins. Visits to her home, Sugar Hill, was truly a moveable feast defined by perpetual activity and lucky membership in a clan of admirable relatives... with Joyce at the helm, and nobody in my recollection demanding to stand out. We were each an oatmeal bowl, or a part of raspberry picking, or one of a group contributing unmeasured walleye to the basket for dinner. Each given equal appreciation. It was wonderful
As I pulled the warn little quilt out and opened it, a warm realization began to slowly seep in that made me smile.
The little quilt was purple... 6 purple old fashioned bandanas to be exact. Somehow, even while happily lost in that gaggle of cousins, she saw me and was able to tell me that she knew me through her own warm, practical art. Bandanas... she understood the western character that defines me even now - and purple. My name is hand appliqued on the front with the feminine blue that makes up the back of the quilt.
What a language.
Truly, thumbing that quilt would have made me miss her, but for a moment she was right there with me again, hooting about some story about a neighbor or duck feather pillows, or the news at the bait shop where she had just gotten a deal on minnows.

That is the kind of gift I would love to learn how to make for those I love ... those whom I would like to show somehow that I see them, and I get them.

So... do you mind if I join the BYC quilting club and tag along to pick your collective talent?

 

[Hattie the Hen]

highcountrychickens,

What wonderful memories. She sounds like a very special woman, as was my grandmother. Sometimes I can feel her beside me & even hear her voice, giving me advice. She died about 55 years ago but she changed my life by giving me confidence & skills which I have used throughout my life. Unfortunately I don't have a quilt to remember by but she did teach me how to make my own. I do however have a large chest (in which I keep my scraps of material for quilts) which belonged to her, & her mother before that. When I polish it's warm old wood I can hear her singing her favourite hymns.

Ah, such memories........!!

Hattie

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

Highcountrychicks..what a wonderful story and how lucky you are to have that story to tell!!Tag right along with the rest of us..we are such good enablers..lol..may I suggest that you check out some of the block swaps too..we have lots of fun and get to know each other through them!!

 

[highcountrychickens]

Thanks so much Hattie and CedarRidgeChicks! She was such a neat lady, and it was so wonderful to find that quilt and this thread within a few days of each other... CedarRidgeChicks, what is a block swap? I have heard that before, and dont' know what it means...

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

go to the Hobbies section..there are several there (scroll down)..let me ask do you sew?, have you done any piecing or quilting..(this isn't required..there are plenty on here to help you get started..lots of us friendly enablers!!)

 

[verthandi]

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I think I found that same model on line. Is it an older machine that is still made of metal? If so, as long as it works well it will be fine for quilting. If you have someone that you know that sews, you might want to take them with you to make sure the tension works well on it. I saw several sewing machines on Craig's list in your area too that were priced fairly well.