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My American Quilt
Several years ago, when I first stumbled into this group, I had an
on-line conversation with someone about how much I liked the American flag. (not being American)(And I recall Nann, being the darling that she is, saying she had always liked the Cdn flag!) So, some of the lovely American women here thought we should exchange fabrics...American for Canadian. I think I was the winner in that exchange, as I never could find any truly CDN fabrics (that's another rant for another time) and had to search high and low for anything woodsy or northern or with maple leaves on it. (Did find some nice ones but not as dramatic as I would have liked.) I received stacks of lovely American 'patriotic' fabrics (can fabrics be patriotic?) and have hoarded them carefully over a few years, sometimes eking out just a little bit for some friend or other who wanted some. Some of the women in that exchange later became Magpie friends, and I am still close to several of them. Later on I took part in a block exchange with some other US friends (I love Americans) and ended up with about 50 Log cabin blocks in the flag theme. As these blocks were small (about 5.5) I put them away till I felt like working on them. One day this winter I dug them out and added another round of logs all round, using my RW&B stash, and finally put the top together. It is so pretty! Almost finished, just putting on the borders, and making an additional piano keys border. It is really just slightly larger than crib -sized, and as I pondered making more blocks for it, and not NEARLY having the energy, it told me, as Sarah (and Sarah has fabric in this quilt) used to say, where it wanted to go. The daughter of a friend moved to California for a few years and while there, she and her husband had a baby. The little girl is, of course, American, but will also be entitled to full Canadian citizenship as well, as they have moved home and she will be raised in Toronto. The quilt spoke loud and clear that it is to go to her, plain and simple! And so, in a week or so, in between spurts of finishing off my Master's degree papers, I'll finish this lovely little quilt, filled with memories of dear friends, and with a few little bits of "true north strong and free" fabric thrown in, just so she can't forget who she is, and off it will go to my new little Canadian/American friend. And I still have enough left over to make my American jacket, and some to give back to this group when I am finished. I love this friends thing! Cheers, Lynne in Toronto |
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what a wonderful story. I can hardly wait to see the quilt. A couple years
ago I was going to Picton ON to a group gathering hosted by a couple there. I wanted to give them something special as a TY.... I asked another friend in Vancouver to see what she could find.... she found a cotton with both US and CDN flags on it.... I made them a teddy bear. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Lynne Van" wrote in message ... Several years ago, when I first stumbled into this group, I had an on-line conversation with someone about how much I liked the American flag. (not being American)(And I recall Nann, being the darling that she is, saying she had always liked the Cdn flag!) |
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In article , Lynne Van
wrote: Several years ago, when I first stumbled into this group, I had an on-line conversation with someone about how much I liked the American flag. (not being American)(And I recall Nann, being the darling that she is, saying she had always liked the Cdn flag!) So, some of the lovely American women here thought we should exchange fabrics...American for Canadian. I think I was the winner in that exchange, as I never could find any truly CDN fabrics (that's another rant for another time) and had to search high and low for anything woodsy or northern or with maple leaves on it. (Did find some nice ones but not as dramatic as I would have liked.) I received stacks of lovely American 'patriotic' fabrics (can fabrics be patriotic?) and have hoarded them carefully over a few years, sometimes eking out just a little bit for some friend or other who wanted some. Some of the women in that exchange later became Magpie friends, and I am still close to several of them. Later on I took part in a block exchange with some other US friends (I love Americans) and ended up with about 50 Log cabin blocks in the flag theme. As these blocks were small (about 5.5) I put them away till I felt like working on them. One day this winter I dug them out and added another round of logs all round, using my RW&B stash, and finally put the top together. It is so pretty! Almost finished, just putting on the borders, and making an additional piano keys border. It is really just slightly larger than crib -sized, and as I pondered making more blocks for it, and not NEARLY having the energy, it told me, as Sarah (and Sarah has fabric in this quilt) used to say, where it wanted to go. The daughter of a friend moved to California for a few years and while there, she and her husband had a baby. The little girl is, of course, American, but will also be entitled to full Canadian citizenship as well, as they have moved home and she will be raised in Toronto. The quilt spoke loud and clear that it is to go to her, plain and simple! And so, in a week or so, in between spurts of finishing off my Master's degree papers, I'll finish this lovely little quilt, filled with memories of dear friends, and with a few little bits of "true north strong and free" fabric thrown in, just so she can't forget who she is, and off it will go to my new little Canadian/American friend. And I still have enough left over to make my American jacket, and some to give back to this group when I am finished. I love this friends thing! Cheers, Lynne in Toronto What a great story, Lynne! And what a lovely quilt it must be. Will you show us pics soon? -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
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I loved reading your message Lynne.. you tell stories very nicely! )
PS: how doed it work in Canada, is the girl canadian because her parents are even if she was born in the US? According to US law Sofia is an american citizen automatically because she was born in the US but according to Uruguay she is uruguayan because so are both her parents. And I believe she could even maybe be Italian, since I have that citizenship too. I don't think you can carry 3 passports, can you? If I understand correctly, the US will require her to choose one citizenship when she is 18 or so, but it doesn't matter to the uruguayan government of course, to them she'll never stop being Uruguayan! Not sure about the italian thing.. Lynne Van wrote: The daughter of a friend moved to California for a few years and while there, she and her husband had a baby. The little girl is, of course, American, but will also be entitled to full Canadian citizenship as well, as they have moved home and she will be raised in Toronto. The quilt spoke loud and clear that it is to go to her, plain and simple! -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out before replying) |
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Thanks, all, for your comments. And I KNEW someone would ask me the citizenship question. I think she is considered Canadian because both parents are Canadian, but there is some paperwork which has to be done as well. My understanding is that she is entitled to dual citizenship on an ongoing basis, but you may be right...later she may have to formalize the arrangement somehow. Many Canadians/Americans have dual citizenship (although I don't know how many "many" is!) Re pictures of the quilt, I'll have to figure out a way to do this, as I don't have a web site and don't have a digital camera. I'm behind a few years in my technology! Cheers, lynne in Toronto "Dr. Quilter" wrote: I loved reading your message Lynne.. you tell stories very nicely! ) PS: how doed it work in Canada, is the girl canadian because her parents are even if she was born in the US? According to US law Sofia is an american citizen automatically because she was born in the US but according to Uruguay she is uruguayan because so are both her parents. And I believe she could even maybe be Italian, since I have that citizenship too. I don't think you can carry 3 passports, can you? If I understand correctly, the US will require her to choose one citizenship when she is 18 or so, but it doesn't matter to the uruguayan government of course, to them she'll never stop being Uruguayan! Not sure about the italian thing.. Lynne Van wrote: The daughter of a friend moved to California for a few years and while there, she and her husband had a baby. The little girl is, of course, American, but will also be entitled to full Canadian citizenship as well, as they have moved home and she will be raised in Toronto. The quilt spoke loud and clear that it is to go to her, plain and simple! -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out before replying) |
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PS: how doed it work in Canada, is the girl canadian because her parents are even if she was born in the US? Yes. A child born outside Canada to a Canadian parent is Canadian, even if she also receives other citizenships (like citizenship of the country of birth, for instance). The US has a similar policy for children born abroad to Americans, but the requirements vary, depending on the parents' marital status, when the birth took place, and how much time the parent(s) has/have spent in the US prior to the birth. According to US law Sofia is an american citizen automatically because she was born in the US but according to Uruguay she is uruguayan because so are both her parents. And I believe she could even maybe be Italian, since I have that citizenship too. I don't think you can carry 3 passports, can you? If you're a citizen of all three countries, you can hold all three passports, unless the laws of one of those countries prohibits you from holding any other country's passport. If I understand correctly, the US will require her to choose one citizenship when she is 18 or so, Actually, that's a widely held misconception. The US has NO requirement to choose only one citizenship when a dual citizen reaches a certain age. Some other countries, like Japan, do have a requirement to choose. Here's the US State Department's statement on dual nationality: http://travel.state.gov/dualnationality.html In the second sentence of the second paragraph they state that the US does not require a person to choose one citizenship or another. Stephen Gallagher P.S. Note that I hold three citizenships. I am a US citizen by birth, British by descent, and a Canadian by naturalization. A very good website that discusses the US policies on dual citizenship is at: http://www.richw.org/dualcit/ |
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Lovely story Lynn! Can't wait to see the quilt!
Good luck on your Masters! :-) Denise in Ontario, Canada On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:00:26 -0500, Lynne Van wrote: Several years ago, when I first stumbled into this group, I had an on-line conversation with someone about how much I liked the American flag. (not being American)(And I recall Nann, being the darling that she is, saying she had always liked the Cdn flag!) So, some of the lovely American women here thought we should exchange fabrics...American for Canadian. I think I was the winner in that exchange, as I never could find any truly CDN fabrics (that's another rant for another time) and had to search high and low for anything woodsy or northern or with maple leaves on it. (Did find some nice ones but not as dramatic as I would have liked.) I received stacks of lovely American 'patriotic' fabrics (can fabrics be patriotic?) and have hoarded them carefully over a few years, sometimes eking out just a little bit for some friend or other who wanted some. Some of the women in that exchange later became Magpie friends, and I am still close to several of them. Later on I took part in a block exchange with some other US friends (I love Americans) and ended up with about 50 Log cabin blocks in the flag theme. As these blocks were small (about 5.5) I put them away till I felt like working on them. One day this winter I dug them out and added another round of logs all round, using my RW&B stash, and finally put the top together. It is so pretty! Almost finished, just putting on the borders, and making an additional piano keys border. It is really just slightly larger than crib -sized, and as I pondered making more blocks for it, and not NEARLY having the energy, it told me, as Sarah (and Sarah has fabric in this quilt) used to say, where it wanted to go. The daughter of a friend moved to California for a few years and while there, she and her husband had a baby. The little girl is, of course, American, but will also be entitled to full Canadian citizenship as well, as they have moved home and she will be raised in Toronto. The quilt spoke loud and clear that it is to go to her, plain and simple! And so, in a week or so, in between spurts of finishing off my Master's degree papers, I'll finish this lovely little quilt, filled with memories of dear friends, and with a few little bits of "true north strong and free" fabric thrown in, just so she can't forget who she is, and off it will go to my new little Canadian/American friend. And I still have enough left over to make my American jacket, and some to give back to this group when I am finished. I love this friends thing! Cheers, Lynne in Toronto -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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hey, Stephen, that is great to know... and thanks for the links!
interesting reading and like you say, the real thing instead of hearsay! about the choosing at 18, that is what I heard, but of course we are not there yet so I hadn't done much research.. funny story for you. when I got to Penn State for grad school, they told me that some countries have tax treaties with the US so that if you are here as a student you don't have to pay full or sometimes any taxes on your fellowship. so I went to the benefits office to ask if ANY of the countries I am a citizen of had treaties that I might benefit from. the woman behind the counter told me I couldn't possibly have dual citizenship. when I showed her both passports she insisted that having a passport did not mean you were a citizen of that country, and besides that they 'gave passports to anybody' ) in any case I am glad neither of the countries had a tax treaty that applied because since I have stayed, I believe I would have had to pay those taxes retroactively to the IRS!!! ) Stephen Gallagher wrote: Actually, that's a widely held misconception. The US has NO requirement to choose only one citizenship when a dual citizen reaches a certain age. Some other countries, like Japan, do have a requirement to choose. Here's the US State Department's statement on dual nationality: http://travel.state.gov/dualnationality.html In the second sentence of the second paragraph they state that the US does not require a person to choose one citizenship or another. Stephen Gallagher P.S. Note that I hold three citizenships. I am a US citizen by birth, British by descent, and a Canadian by naturalization. A very good website that discusses the US policies on dual citizenship is at: http://www.richw.org/dualcit/ -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out before replying) |
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ANd here I was, not even thinking about the fact that my son has dual
citizenship - US and Panama....he's the only one in the family with dual citizenship...the rest of us just have US citizenship......wondering if I should ever tell him about being Panamanian by birth....whatcha think?? Larisa Dr. Quilter wrote: hey, Stephen, that is great to know... and thanks for the links! interesting reading and like you say, the real thing instead of hearsay! about the choosing at 18, that is what I heard, but of course we are not there yet so I hadn't done much research.. funny story for you. when I got to Penn State for grad school, they told me that some countries have tax treaties with the US so that if you are here as a student you don't have to pay full or sometimes any taxes on your fellowship. so I went to the benefits office to ask if ANY of the countries I am a citizen of had treaties that I might benefit from. the woman behind the counter told me I couldn't possibly have dual citizenship. when I showed her both passports she insisted that having a passport did not mean you were a citizen of that country, and besides that they 'gave passports to anybody' ) in any case I am glad neither of the countries had a tax treaty that applied because since I have stayed, I believe I would have had to pay those taxes retroactively to the IRS!!! ) Stephen Gallagher wrote: Actually, that's a widely held misconception. The US has NO requirement to choose only one citizenship when a dual citizen reaches a certain age. Some other countries, like Japan, do have a requirement to choose. Here's the US State Department's statement on dual nationality: http://travel.state.gov/dualnationality.html In the second sentence of the second paragraph they state that the US does not require a person to choose one citizenship or another. Stephen Gallagher P.S. Note that I hold three citizenships. I am a US citizen by birth, British by descent, and a Canadian by naturalization. A very good website that discusses the US policies on dual citizenship is at: http://www.richw.org/dualcit/ |
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I think you should of course tell him... he will feel different, exotic
and interesting!! ) CNYstitcher wrote: ANd here I was, not even thinking about the fact that my son has dual citizenship - US and Panama....he's the only one in the family with dual citizenship...the rest of us just have US citizenship......wondering if I should ever tell him about being Panamanian by birth....whatcha think?? -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out before replying) |
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