Passionate about Quilting (long)
Terri Allen
Cindy and Johanna---let me tell you my quilting story....
I have been married to my husband for 10 years. I started sewing simple things, curtains, etc. about 9 years ago. My mother-in-law, on the other hand, has quilted for over 20 years. I was never really interested in quilting much and we lived so far apart for so long. Then last October, she moved to the Midwest to be near us (that was a miracle in itself), and now lives four blocks away. By December, I was full swing into quilting!!!
At this time, I have finished quilt #1, putting the binding on quilt #2, sewing the backing on #3, making blocks for #'s 4 and 5, planning #6 and #7 and buying fabric for all the ones I want to make!!! My mother-in-law says I already have a quilter's heart....I have been "collecting" fabric for years, thinking I would do something else with it, but not really knowing what...guess I was destined to become a quilter! And I'm a machine quilter---don't have time to hand quilt, but my mil loves to hand quilt (she does both) and keeps insisting that I do it. I'll have plenty of time when the kids are grown, that is, if I'm not busy playing with my grandkids!
Got to tell you something else really cool---at Home Depot, you know how there's the "some-assembly-required" type closet organizers, namely Mill's Pride? If you don't go to Home Depot often or have never been, I'd suggest you go, because I have found the neatest item, just for storing fabric! Okay, it's not really intended for fabric, but it is just perfect for fat quarters....it's a shoe rack! It has 24 little cubbyholes! The Home Depot employee that loaded the boxes onto my rolling cart-thingy thought I had lost my mind! He told one of the other employees that it was to hold my yarn. Of course, I corrected him--how dare he!?! (c;
I bought one, and my mother-in-law bought two and some extra shelves. My husband mounted the shelves between the two shoe racks along the back wall of her sewing room. She's actually organized with places for FQs and extra yards folded on the shelves!! I'm still working on it, but then again, she's been collecting fabric for 20 years!! I'd say she's got a bit more than me!
Gosh, had no intention of babbling on--see what you started!?! Just get me started on my favorite subject and watch out!!
Terri
I have been married to my husband for 10 years. I started sewing simple things, curtains, etc. about 9 years ago. My mother-in-law, on the other hand, has quilted for over 20 years. I was never really interested in quilting much and we lived so far apart for so long. Then last October, she moved to the Midwest to be near us (that was a miracle in itself), and now lives four blocks away. By December, I was full swing into quilting!!!
At this time, I have finished quilt #1, putting the binding on quilt #2, sewing the backing on #3, making blocks for #'s 4 and 5, planning #6 and #7 and buying fabric for all the ones I want to make!!! My mother-in-law says I already have a quilter's heart....I have been "collecting" fabric for years, thinking I would do something else with it, but not really knowing what...guess I was destined to become a quilter! And I'm a machine quilter---don't have time to hand quilt, but my mil loves to hand quilt (she does both) and keeps insisting that I do it. I'll have plenty of time when the kids are grown, that is, if I'm not busy playing with my grandkids!
Got to tell you something else really cool---at Home Depot, you know how there's the "some-assembly-required" type closet organizers, namely Mill's Pride? If you don't go to Home Depot often or have never been, I'd suggest you go, because I have found the neatest item, just for storing fabric! Okay, it's not really intended for fabric, but it is just perfect for fat quarters....it's a shoe rack! It has 24 little cubbyholes! The Home Depot employee that loaded the boxes onto my rolling cart-thingy thought I had lost my mind! He told one of the other employees that it was to hold my yarn. Of course, I corrected him--how dare he!?! (c;
I bought one, and my mother-in-law bought two and some extra shelves. My husband mounted the shelves between the two shoe racks along the back wall of her sewing room. She's actually organized with places for FQs and extra yards folded on the shelves!! I'm still working on it, but then again, she's been collecting fabric for 20 years!! I'd say she's got a bit more than me!
Gosh, had no intention of babbling on--see what you started!?! Just get me started on my favorite subject and watch out!!
Terri
----- Original Message -----
From: Johanna
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 5:21 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] quilting(was used books)
or too many colors, or shades of colors. My husband thingks I'm daft when I talk cloth. (another quilter) We found a lovely story book at the library the other day Called the Quiltmakers Gift By Jeff Brumbeau and Gail de Marcken.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
----- Original Message -----
From: Terri Allen
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: Used Book Sources
Betsy,
you're a woman after my own heart--
a true kindred spirit---
You can NEVER have too much fabric!!
(you must be a fellow quilter?)
( c ;
Terri
----- Original Message -----
From: Betsy Hill
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: Used Book Sources
(And since it's also possible to shop for fabric online, I'm now in hog
heaven.)
Betsy
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Terri Allen
Dh sounds like a great guy! He's every quilter's dream! And even buying fabric on your honeymoon....he's a keeper!
The retreats sound great! The quilt shops around here offer classes occasionally and I plan on trying to take a few to expand my abilities. I'm sticking with simple stuff right now until I feel comfortable about moving on.
I started a while back designing one for my son (13). He went with me to pick out the fabric. Now, we've decided to do something different, but this time, I'm having him help me design it. He's a very talented and visual artist for his age and I think he'd really enjoy it more than he knows (and might learn a few things along the way!). I'd really like him to help me piece it, too. I keep telling him it's like putting a puzzle together. My daughter (11) had two sewing "lessons" from my mil and quit. Said she's just not "into" it right now, so I'm not pushing it. But...she did choose to go with me to the quilt shop the other day instead of Walmart with her brother....keeping my fingers crossed.
Terri
The retreats sound great! The quilt shops around here offer classes occasionally and I plan on trying to take a few to expand my abilities. I'm sticking with simple stuff right now until I feel comfortable about moving on.
I started a while back designing one for my son (13). He went with me to pick out the fabric. Now, we've decided to do something different, but this time, I'm having him help me design it. He's a very talented and visual artist for his age and I think he'd really enjoy it more than he knows (and might learn a few things along the way!). I'd really like him to help me piece it, too. I keep telling him it's like putting a puzzle together. My daughter (11) had two sewing "lessons" from my mil and quit. Said she's just not "into" it right now, so I'm not pushing it. But...she did choose to go with me to the quilt shop the other day instead of Walmart with her brother....keeping my fingers crossed.
Terri
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy Ferguson
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Passionate about Quilting (long)
Terri Allen wrote:
>
> Cindy and Johanna---let me tell you my quilting story....
>
I started quilting when my grandmother decided I was old enough to
use a needle and thread! So at about 6, I made my first "quilt"
for one of my dolls - from leftover scraps of the quilt she
was working on. I have a number of quilts that she made and
I consider them family heirlooms - even one is really in bad
shape. When she was no longer able to make quilts, I made
one for each of my niece and nephews as baby gifts!
I do mostly machine now - Grandma thought machine was not as
good but if I want to get anything done ....
I have taken 3 art quilt retreats in the past 3 years - they are
held at a local store so I don't have to leave my family! DH takes
off the 3 workdays to stay with our children. I knew he was the
one for me when for a birthday present the first birthday we were
together, he took me to a fabric store and said "buy!" We bought so
much fabric on our honeymoon (in Hawaii) that we shipped it home since
we didn't have space in our suitcases for it all.
Right now a lot of my focus in on making things for my children. This
past winter I started a wall hanging which uses images my daughter drew
for me. She also told me what she wants on a bed quilt. My son listed
the transportation vehicles he wants on his! I'm a fairly non-traditional
quilter and I like the creativity of making my own patterns. I also
dye or paint fabric since then I'm not limited to the colors in the
local store! I'm sure I will involve them more as they get older.
They have depths of creativity that amazes me - and it's great to
work on projects together!
I am also trying to organize my stash. We used a lot of it as packing
material when we moved in the fall so it is jumbled now. I have a lot
of "help" since Megan and Alex like to get some out and run around the
house with it!
It is a passion for me but I want to keep it a hobby. At the retreat
I go to about half of us are hobbyists while others do shows and sell
their work. At this point in my life I want it to stay a hobby. My
children are more important to me than the extra money or the praise
of a fickle art world!
There's a lot of math skills in quilting (tie in to homeschooling!)
--
Cindy Ferguson
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Johanna
It's ok to babble once and a while, especially something you are passionate about. To me that's part of unschooling. My mom is the one who started me collecting fabric. I made my first quilt for my now 11 yo son. I remember learning about quilting in home ec class in seventh grade (were talking 1974 here) and I thought it was the most hideous thing I had ever seen. She used the color of the time liberally in big ugly patches. I was always good with needles but intil I discovered a rotary cutter and what it could do I had never quilted. Now all my children have their own quilted blankets. if you have small children, check out the book I mentioned, it is a lovely picture book about sharing.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
----- Original Message -----
From: Terri Allen
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 10:04 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Passionate about Quilting (long)
Cindy and Johanna---let me tell you my quilting story....
I have been married to my husband for 10 years. I started sewing simple things, curtains, etc. about 9 years ago. My mother-in-law, on the other hand, has quilted for over 20 years. I was never really interested in quilting much and we lived so far apart for so long. Then last October, she moved to the Midwest to be near us (that was a miracle in itself), and now lives four blocks away. By December, I was full swing into quilting!!!
At this time, I have finished quilt #1, putting the binding on quilt #2, sewing the backing on #3, making blocks for #'s 4 and 5, planning #6 and #7 and buying fabric for all the ones I want to make!!! My mother-in-law says I already have a quilter's heart....I have been "collecting" fabric for years, thinking I would do something else with it, but not really knowing what...guess I was destined to become a quilter! And I'm a machine quilter---don't have time to hand quilt, but my mil loves to hand quilt (she does both) and keeps insisting that I do it. I'll have plenty of time when the kids are grown, that is, if I'm not busy playing with my grandkids!
Got to tell you something else really cool---at Home Depot, you know how there's the "some-assembly-required" type closet organizers, namely Mill's Pride? If you don't go to Home Depot often or have never been, I'd suggest you go, because I have found the neatest item, just for storing fabric! Okay, it's not really intended for fabric, but it is just perfect for fat quarters....it's a shoe rack! It has 24 little cubbyholes! The Home Depot employee that loaded the boxes onto my rolling cart-thingy thought I had lost my mind! He told one of the other employees that it was to hold my yarn. Of course, I corrected him--how dare he!?! (c;
I bought one, and my mother-in-law bought two and some extra shelves. My husband mounted the shelves between the two shoe racks along the back wall of her sewing room. She's actually organized with places for FQs and extra yards folded on the shelves!! I'm still working on it, but then again, she's been collecting fabric for 20 years!! I'd say she's got a bit more than me!
Gosh, had no intention of babbling on--see what you started!?! Just get me started on my favorite subject and watch out!!
Terri
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Lynda
A friend's wife is a quilter. He is a dyed in the wool garage sale shopper.
He found a beautiful old wardrobe, about 6' tall and 4' wide. He had great
plans to make into a place for their tv and planned to put it in their
bedroom.
Well, he made the mistake of putting it in the spare bedroom (guess where
she guilts) until he could get around to putting a special shelf for the tv
in it. Now it is the perfect place for storing quilting supplies. It has a
high shelf and a low shelf and then has a drawer under the doors. End of
entertainment center <g>
Lynda
He found a beautiful old wardrobe, about 6' tall and 4' wide. He had great
plans to make into a place for their tv and planned to put it in their
bedroom.
Well, he made the mistake of putting it in the spare bedroom (guess where
she guilts) until he could get around to putting a special shelf for the tv
in it. Now it is the perfect place for storing quilting supplies. It has a
high shelf and a low shelf and then has a drawer under the doors. End of
entertainment center <g>
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Allen" <kscajuns@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 8:04 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Passionate about Quilting (long)
> Cindy and Johanna---let me tell you my quilting story....
>
> I have been married to my husband for 10 years. I started sewing simple
things, curtains, etc. about 9 years ago. My mother-in-law, on the other
hand, has quilted for over 20 years. I was never really interested in
quilting much and we lived so far apart for so long. Then last October, she
moved to the Midwest to be near us (that was a miracle in itself), and now
lives four blocks away. By December, I was full swing into quilting!!!
>
> At this time, I have finished quilt #1, putting the binding on quilt #2,
sewing the backing on #3, making blocks for #'s 4 and 5, planning #6 and #7
and buying fabric for all the ones I want to make!!! My mother-in-law says I
already have a quilter's heart....I have been "collecting" fabric for years,
thinking I would do something else with it, but not really knowing
what...guess I was destined to become a quilter! And I'm a machine
quilter---don't have time to hand quilt, but my mil loves to hand quilt (she
does both) and keeps insisting that I do it. I'll have plenty of time when
the kids are grown, that is, if I'm not busy playing with my grandkids!
>
> Got to tell you something else really cool---at Home Depot, you know how
there's the "some-assembly-required" type closet organizers, namely Mill's
Pride? If you don't go to Home Depot often or have never been, I'd suggest
you go, because I have found the neatest item, just for storing fabric!
Okay, it's not really intended for fabric, but it is just perfect for fat
quarters....it's a shoe rack! It has 24 little cubbyholes! The Home Depot
employee that loaded the boxes onto my rolling cart-thingy thought I had
lost my mind! He told one of the other employees that it was to hold my
yarn. Of course, I corrected him--how dare he!?! (c;
>
> I bought one, and my mother-in-law bought two and some extra shelves. My
husband mounted the shelves between the two shoe racks along the back wall
of her sewing room. She's actually organized with places for FQs and extra
yards folded on the shelves!! I'm still working on it, but then again, she's
been collecting fabric for 20 years!! I'd say she's got a bit more than me!
>
> Gosh, had no intention of babbling on--see what you started!?! Just get me
started on my favorite subject and watch out!!
>
> Terri
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Johanna
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 5:21 PM
> Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] quilting(was used books)
>
>
> or too many colors, or shades of colors. My husband thingks I'm daft
when I talk cloth. (another quilter) We found a lovely story book at the
library the other day Called the Quiltmakers Gift By Jeff Brumbeau and Gail
de Marcken.
> Johanna
> Life is the ultimate learning experience!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Terri Allen
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 1:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: Used Book Sources
>
>
> Betsy,
>
> you're a woman after my own heart--
>
> a true kindred spirit---
>
> You can NEVER have too much fabric!!
>
> (you must be a fellow quilter?)
>
> ( c ;
> Terri
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Betsy Hill
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: Used Book Sources
> (And since it's also possible to shop for fabric online, I'm now in
hog
> heaven.)
>
> Betsy
>
>
>
>
>
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