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Roll Call!
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. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply |
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Ok... Ill do it too.... Im Diana, I post as Diana, live in Wisconsin with a
lovely husband, a DD, and I have a grown son, his SO and their son, my Grandson... and Ive been trying to learn how to make quilts for the past.. umm.. lets see... I'm 47 and been at this since I was 15.. you may do the math. I have been sewing for longer tho... Turns out I like to collect sewing machines and play with beads too. You may see me over in rec.crafts.beads too. ... and alt.sewing ..and rec.crafts.polyclay ... I have a bunch of photos in a yahoo site. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lunamom44/my_photos Youre welcome to go peek in there. Im a goddess in my own mind and relatively happy. Thats about it. Me in a nutshell... some would say thats fitting. :-) Welcome newbies! Diana -- Weird people need beads, too "frood" wrote in message news 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. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply |
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I'm Mary posting as maryd. I live in western Oregon and married to DH for
nearly 36 years. We have 4 children (all married) and 5 grandchildren. I tried a little quilting back in the early 70s but changed to clothing construction. A year ago I started quilting again and love piecing. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "frood" wrote in message news 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. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply |
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I'm Jalynne, posting as....well, Jalynne. I live in Tacoma, Washington, USA. My DH
is in the Navy, and we have one DD, age 7....Aleesha. We homeschool, and quilting is a wonderful way to teach math and science, as well as art and a whole slew of other things. I've been quilting for about 6 or 7 years now, and mostly enjoy hand quilting. The last few years have been difficult for getting much accomplished because of medical problems, but now I'm back cramming the days full of creative endeavors. I like blues and muted colors, and am more into traditional type patterns. I also enjoy setting unusual/different sized blocks together. -- Jalynne - Keeper of the Quilt for ME club list Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request) see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne "frood" wrote in message news 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. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply |
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G'day Folks!
I'm Sharon, posting as.... well look down and you'll see! I'm from a little place called Dingley Village in Victoria in Australia. I have a wonderful (travelling) husband called Wayne and we have 2 kids (daughters), a mortgage and a cute QI called Merlot. He's a cat (Australian Multi-Cultural Long Hair) and he lets us live here. I'm just going back to work (3 days per week). I tend to machine piece, hand applique, and hand quilt. I've been going for, what is it?, 4 years now? It's so hard to remember! I love all fabric - well except brown and "yeuchy" colours and I just love purple and blue! -- Sharon from Melbourne Australia Queen of Down Under http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos ********************** "frood" wrote in message news 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. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply |
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What a nice way to start the new year Wendy! I'm Bonnie, posting as muse9,
and I've been making quilts less than a year but sewing since I was a child. I guess that qualifies me as a somewhat newbie both to RCTG and to quilting. I live in Missouri, just east of Kansas City with my DH, Tom and two QI kitties - Willow and Echo. We have two grown sons, the oldest one is married with a two year old son and eight year old daughter. They live about a half hour away so the grandkids get to spend weekends with us occasionally. Our younger son is at the University of Illinois working on his doctorate in music. I work full time as a front desk person in a medical office so my job unfortunately cuts into my quilting time but I am learning to work around that! I don't post a lot but I read as much as I can here and have learned sooo much from everyone here! Bonnie in Missouri http://community.webshots.com/user/bonnied9 delete "removespam" to reply "frood" wrote in message news 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. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply |
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I'm a Minnesota native who has been sewing for nearly 50 years and
quilting off and on for over 30 years. I really got serious about it about 10 years ago and I haven't looked at another needlework or craft project since. Most of my quilts are machine pieced and machine quilted. I enjoy hand-quilting, but trigger finger in my right thumb keeps me from doing a lot of it. I have also done some applique, both by hand and machine. I always have at least 2 or 3 projects going. I have been at handquilting a queen size jewel box quilt for about a year; I'm almost done -- down to just the border on one side left; I can't work on it for more than an hour or so at a time because of the trigger finger, so it takes me a long time to get something done. I also am handquilting a crib quilt made from blocks my mother embroidered; that is my portable take-along project, so it doesn't go too fast. Someday, if my daughter has a child, it will go to that baby. The major project right now is machine quilting a queen size Trip Around the World; I'm enjoying using variegated thread to do a lot of free-hand feathers. I should have that done in a couple of days, so it will be on to something else. I am a retired software engineer. I have been married 37+ years to a school counselor, now retired. We have a son and a daughter, both married. Our son and daughter-in-law have blessed us with a 4 year old grandson and a 2 year old granddaughter, both really adorable kids whom we don't see enough of Julia in MN -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/ |
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QIs! I forgot the QIs! I have a wonderful big shaggy dog named Mungo. He
rarely leaves my side, and will seek out any quilts left on the floor for sleeping on. He's not much help with the design process, but he's a good listener. My main QIs (Quilt Inspectors) are my twin girls. They love to play with blocks on my design wall, and freely offer their opinions. Unfortunately, they have little concept of the actual quilt-making process. The day after helping me select fabric, they want to know where the finished quilt is! My quilting pages are in my siggy, below. My site is in dire need of updating, but there are still some quilts to look at. See? Isn't this fun? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply |
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I'll play too!
I'm Lisa, posting as lisae. I live in Santa Cruz, CA. I'm 52, married, with a 24 year old son and a cat. I've been quilting for about 30 years. I machine piece and mostly hand quilt, although I have been teaching myself how to machine quilt. I work with bright colots or with vintage textiles. Current projects include a baby quilt for a baby due this month (almost done), a double four patch top (an outgrowth of the baby quilt, as I used they use a lot of the same material), and a 40's basket quilt that I am (slowly) hand quilting. I work full time and spend a lot of time climbing and hiking, so that cuts into my quilting time. Cheers! lisae 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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Thanks for suggesting this Wendy!
I'm Louise and live in eastern Iowa. As of this Thursday, DH and I will have been married 26 years -- no kids, but three stepkids and three stepgrandchildren. QI is a little black dog named Tipper. I've been quilting for about 25 years and seldom have less than three projects going at the same time. I generally machine piece, hand applique, and hand quilt. Although I love fabric in general, purple is my favorite. And if I'm going to eat chocolate (which I'm not supposed to have!), I like the dark stuff! -- Louise in Iowa nieland4 at mchsi dot com http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa "frood" wrote in message news 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. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply |
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