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I'm Mickie Swall and I live in Cranberry Township, which is about
20 miles north-west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. I've been making quilts for about 10 years, taught myself how to sew on my mom's treadle when I was about age six (had to stand up and work the pedal with one foot g). I joined the r.c.t.q. in 1998, shortly after our family purchased our first computer. Since then, my 2 teenageers (DS, 17 & DD, 15 ) have their own computers, DH and I share this one. DH is really into R/C Aircraft, he designs & builds them but lets the other guys fly them, he's afraid to crash! LOL. I work at home, making quilts for publication in two magazines and also another famous quilt designer. In between paid jobs I design and self-publish my own patterns for local distrbution, and teach them at the LQS. I love being busy, though it limits my online time and I don't post here too often. I don't have a website yet, but some of my quilts are up for viewing at http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mickieswall/my_photos Mickie |
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Great idea Wendy
Taria here in So. Cal. I live in the yucky Inland Empire right now most of the time but still have a house in the high desert that I really think of as where I belong. I'm married 25 years come August to a wonderful DH. We have 2 kids DS almost 22 that lives in San Diego now and is going to school and works in law enforcement. DD is 20 and lives with us and goes to school. They are both wonderful and I am pretty proud of them. I have 3 QI's now. 2 kitties, Lily and Maki whom I really enjoy even though I am a reformed cat hater. An 8 mo Golden Retriever Georgia is my new buddy. Excepting that she chases the kitties she is really a joy. She is getting big but still a baby at heart. I quilt a lot. HAve sewn since I was a little kid. Dad says I was born already knowing how! 4H and Mrs. Flatten were a great help with clothing construction and I took my first quilting class in '75. I really like old quilts and old machines. I enjoy the history of the quilters before me. If you need an old Singer machine part holler. I have boxes full of the stuff when I can get to it. I have an old web page that dh is threatening to update. http://home1.gte.net/res6mc9p/taria/index.htm Thanks for the great thread Wendy! Taria in drizzly So. Cal. frood wrote: As newbies come and introduce themselves, we all say "hi" back to them. But, while we learn a bit about them, they don't get to know us very easily. (ok, except for a few gabby folks.... ;-P ) So, as a start to a new year, I thought it would be fun to tell a bit about ourselves, and get to know each other. I'm sure the newbies aren't the only one trying to keep the players straight without a score card! Ok, here goes! I'm Wendy, posting as "frood". I live in Central NC, USA. I'm married to a fabulous man, and we have 5 kids, ranging from 13 to 4 yo twins, known online as Spike and Giles. I've been quilting for about 7 or 8 years, mostly machine piecing and machine quilting. I love bright colors, and I collect vintage textiles. |
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Trish has been with us for awhile---just doesn't post as often as she use
to. Sumpin about life getting in the way : ) Hope she can stay longer this time Butterfly "Roberta Zollner" wrote in message ... Welcome Trish! Good to have you here. What are you working on now? Roberta in D " Pete 'n' Trish" wrote in message ... Hello I'm trish in Syney. Thats Syney Australia. I am closer to Melinda than Sharon. I have only been quilting since '99. I an in my fourties (shhh) I arrived in Australia from New Zealand in '99. I am a registered nurse working in a jail. So quitling is stress relief for me. My QI's are two tanks of tropical fish and some Superb Parakeets but Pete ( the other half )is a printer so has a good eye for colours. I have started two other nurses and two lady prison officers quilting as well. I machine quilt and have bought a Janome 10001. But have been back to university studying so two more assignments to go and whoo hoo stitching heaven.Hope all the newbies stay as this is a great bunch of folk here .. trish in Sydney www.communitywebsots.com/user/trishinsydney |
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Hi Joy...
Your kids look very happy in those pics! Your older daughter is getting so cute! BTW, thanks for listing me as a favourite webshots member! Joy wrote: Hi Sharon, Thanks for the welcome back! Just for you =) I uploaded pics into webshots. My mom is fair skinned and people literally stepped backward when she introduced me to them at her Christmas choir performance as I announced, "Yeah, I'm brown!" Hee hee. I don't know if I'm beautiful, but I'm in the webshot album along with the kids: http://community.webshots.com/user/joyjane Have fun perusing! A Joy in Hawaii "Sharon Harper" wrote in message ... Welcome home Joy - does this mean you are around for always now? BTW are there any photos of you around anywhere - with the description you gave of your heritage and having seen those gorgeous Hawaiin ladies in person I can only imagine your beautifulness. No, seriously! -- Sharon from Melbourne Australia Queen of Down Under http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos ********************** "Joy" wrote in message .. . "frood" wrote in message news snipped: As newbies come and introduce themselves, we all say "hi" back to them. But, while we learn a bit about them, they don't get to know us very easily. -- ... Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply Aloha! I'm Joy, posting as A Joy in Hawaii. I'm a 34 year old Filipino/Native Hawaiian/Japanese/Cherokee/Welsh/Portuguese (wow, yeah?!) woman that lives in Holualoa, HI (a part of Kona, HI) on a coffee farm (no, I don't have to pick it but you can find me sneaking a few coffee cherries to suck on for a quick pick me up, hee hee). I have three kidlets DD1 4 y.o.(almost 5), DD2 3 y.o. and DS1 20 months old. I'm working on getting my D(arn)H to agree to divorce so that I don't have to pay outrageous attorney fees. It's been a rough year for me all around with these ongoing marital problems and then my dad past away on November 18, just about a month and a half ago. I've gotten back to piecing but somehow I just can't get the machine quilting thing going again. I do love to hand quilt, though. I started quilting Hawaiian quilts and even had a job as a quilt demonstrator in Waikiki around 3 years ago which was really fun. I don't have any of the quilts I completed while active on RCTQ doing our monthly challenges with the late Sue and I've lost the pictures of them that were on Webshots. Oh well, I'll get them back someday, I hope. RCTQers have been a great support to me and HUGged me and my kids 4 times over and blessed me with more than I could imagine. At the moment, I am totally loving batiks and am planning on entering the Kona Coffee Quilt Contest in June using these batiks and hand dyed fabrics from Mardi. Most of my day is spent as a case manager for the severely and persistently mentally ill and evenings are with my 3 kidlets. Very little time to do quilty things these days...besides read RCTQ posts to keep me sane =). So if you're new, welcome. If you've been around, I guess I'm back *grin*. A Joy in Hawaii -- Dr. Quilter http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out before replying) |
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Kellie here in NW Houston. been a member of RCTQ since the early days (mid
'90s) and have been hand sewing (doll clothes, cross stitch, embroidery) most of my life, but still consider myself just above beginner... so much to learn!!! Love all parts of quilting except the cutting (too often crooked) and basting (just don't like it). Probably why i have so many tops that need finishing! I am married with 3 kids (g9,b7 and g almost4) and 2 dogs (old golden mix and young black lab). I Have managed to collect 5 sewing machines! DH thinks that is 3 to many.... but puts up with it bc 3 are disguising themselves as furniture right now... lol Started quilting in '93 or '94 with a "qillow" unless you consider the trapunto wallhanging self portrait i did in college in '90 or the folded star wallhanging quilting.... I do some webdesign and desktop publishing from home now, but have been an art teacher, a director of a Mother's Morning Out, and worked many other odd jobs from catering to sales clerk. Don't currently have my own website too busy working on other ppls! Very involved in the kids' school, so that takes up a lot of my quilting time. Starting to make jewelry again, dabbled with it in college and high school... Still love quilting more, but the jewelry gets finished faster grin ! Learning to applique and free motion quilt. Like DARK Chocolate, love stars, love most colors other than yellow greens. did i leave anything out??? -- Kellie kjbeanne at yahoo dot com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger....net/my_photos |
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I'm Debra in south central Virginia, USA, 42 years old, married to a
great guy, no kids unless you count the three very spoiled indoor kitties. I've been doing needlepoint and cross stitch since I was a teen and got interested in quilting about a year and a half ago when my mom started quilting the tops made by my grandma and great grandma. We had great fun looking through all the tops she has inherited and she even gave me a couple. She finished quilting one twin sized Rose Dream quilt that my grandma made for me when I was a child and presented it to me. Since then she has finished several quilts, including piecing one of her own. I have made a few quilt labels for her and I have almost finished one wall hanging for my bathroom with tropical fish as the theme, all that is left is the binding. I'm still in the planning stages of a quilt my hubby wants. It's space oriented and he picked out the first fabric--glow in the dark constellation print on black. Re-modeling the kitchen and bathroom have kept me from doing much quilting and needlework. Those rooms are not quite finished, but almost, just the crown molding in the bath, and a new counter top and some new doors to be mounted on the upper cabinets in the kitchen to go but we are rarely off from work on the same days so it's slow going. After those are done there are four more rooms to get paint and some re-finished furniture but they will be easier and faster to complete since there is a lot less that can go wrong in them. I hope I never have to re-model a bathroom again in my lifetime. I figure two years of trying to do my hobbies slowly while re-doing the house, then I'll have a lot more time for quilting and other needlework. One last thing I almost forgot to mention. I love old Singer sewing machines, and I have six or seven, some working and some needing a little repair. My favorites are the green ones. Debra in VA |
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Oh cool. Love introductions and reaquaintances! Thanks Wendy for the
great idea. I'm Denise and I post as Denise in Ontario, Canada. I've been married to Bob for almost 35 years, have two grown daughters, one married. I've been quilting since 1996 and I'm working hard on improving my machine quilting skills. I own too many machines, use my FW regularly and quilt on a new Brother I purchased two years ago. I love jewel tones and bright colours, and am constantly looking for more TIME!!! You can see some of my quilts at: http://community.webshots.com/scripts/controlPanel.fcgi Denise in Ontario, Canada On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:42:11 GMT, "frood" wrote: | As newbies come and introduce themselves, we all say "hi" back to them. But, | while we learn a bit about them, they don't get to know us very easily. (ok, | except for a few gabby folks.... ;-P ) So, as a start to a new year, I | thought it would be fun to tell a bit about ourselves, and get to know each | other. I'm sure the newbies aren't the only one trying to keep the players | straight without a score card! | | Ok, here goes! I'm Wendy, posting as "frood". I live in Central NC, USA. I'm | married to a fabulous man, and we have 5 kids, ranging from 13 to 4 yo | twins, known online as Spike and Giles. I've been quilting for about 7 or 8 | years, mostly machine piecing and machine quilting. I love bright colors, | and I collect vintage textiles. |
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I live near Boise, Idaho. Just celebrated 30 years of marriage to a mint and
sugar beet farmer that is rooted here by two prior generations. We have 2 daughters, 26 y.o. married English teacher , and 20 y.o. college student. I used to do computer programming when computers took up a whole room. While I was temp. laid off in 1990 I took a class on English paper-piecing and my interest in quilting has grown exponentially since. I now have quilt checks, license plate frame, a huge library, 5 machines, a full journal of my quilt pics, ... Debra in Idaho |
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Thanks, Taria! I'm really enjoying it, too!
-- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply Put on your Big Girl panties and just deal with it. -- unknown "taria" wrote in message news:SByCd.33946$h.23490@trnddc04... Thanks for the great thread Wendy! Taria in drizzly So. Cal. |
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:06:13 GMT, georg wrote:
nbhilyard wrote: I always think of Nancy Drew's friend George.... My question: what does a late-14th-century quilt look like, and where did you find 600-year-old fabric? g Well, ok, it's not 600-year-old fabric... but it is linen of roughly the same weave, linen floss, and linen thread... I'm hoping to post a pic this week. I finally got all of the embroidery done. It's based on the guiarducci (sp) tapestry, also known as the Tristram and Isolde quilt, which is in the V&A in London, with a matching one in the Bargello Museum in Florence. It shows scenes from the Tristram and Isolde legend, which is tied up in the Arthur mythos. I picked one of the scenes - two knights fighting- and re did the words on it (which were Scilian) and the devices on the sheilds. It is to commemerate a friend becoming a Duke, and will be his scroll (yes, Duke in SCA). -georg I can hear the OOhs and AAhs at the court presentation already! Debra in VA |
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