Whoo Hoo!!! yet another quilting club I can join!!
I don't remember NOT sewing, I think I may have had a needle in my hand before I could ride a bike. I've always had little projects, like curtains, tunics, costumes, etc but when I was living in Chicago and out of work on those LONG dark winter days I decided to get back into quilting, hadn't quilted since I was eight. A couple of years later we got to move back down south where it's warm in the winters and landed in Central Texas. We lived in 'company housing' in a little community of a whopping population of 50 people and 3 sand plants for the first 5 months we were here. I was bullied into attending the local quilting thing by the most wonderful little old grandma and I started hand quilting again. It's one of the last hand quilting clubs in Texas and I'm the youngest by 30 years.
I have tons of UFO's and people are always gifting me with interesting fabric... I got a box of corduroy a few months ago and a corduroy quilt top a few weeks ago.
I don't 'sew by the numbers' and rarely use patterns, at least not as they are meant to be used, I usually change them to fit what I have in my head.
I love bright colors and jewel tones, though pink is and exception... not a fan.
Currently I'm building a scrap quilt, well more than one, for hubby out of his old work clothes in celebration of him losing 75 pounds. I've got the curtain material picked out and ready to go to make curtains for our 2 small bedrooms. I'm finishing a bunch of embroidered panels that were started 30 years ago, mom found them in a thrift store and wants them in a quilt ASAP. Have 4 lap/crib quilt tops that need to be quilted and have a special little hand stitched project I'm making for the Voca ladies out of some fabric I found in the club closet.
thanks for the idea!!
