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Question for the week of March 3, 2003:
Our question this week comes Holly Marshall:
What is it that makes you want to quilt and how did you get started?
Kim Pillivant :
First of all quilting is very personal to me so every quilt is thought out thouroughly for the person it is being made for. Second it is theraputic, relaxing, etc......
When I was 13 there was an older women that lived down the street from us that lived alone. My mom would send me down to check on her, when I came she would teach me to quilt. I fell in love with it. I made my first quilt when I was 15. I will be 40 in october and I still love it.
Myrna :
I have always sewn...wall quilts, wedding gowns, draperies. I seem to "go" with the latest trend, and it has been scrapbooking for me. I design for the local store as well as teach. My friend at the Scrapbook store who doesn't know how to sew wanted to learn. Next door to the scrapbook store is a fabric store offering a BOM. I told her that if she did it, I would...so, I am BACK into the fabric. Love it, love it, love it!!
ducks in a row :
sewing reminds me of giant jigsaw puszles, and i can make the picturs any thing i want. i've been sewing sence i was a child, clothing ect, but quilting just speeks to me in a way that nothing else does, i started in the eairly 80's after my husband and i aplit up, then i had room for a table and work space and unrupted time there was one shop in town that was aquilt shop and i just sort of picked it up from there
Marion :
I signed up for a class on a whim. The rest was all downhill!
Mom3 :
I got started quilting about 10yrs. ago. This was when I was pregnant with my first son. We had the baby's crib and such, but, I couldn't find any baby quilts or bumper pads that I liked. This, along with the fact I had a creative itch, was when I decided to make my own. I made bright purple coloured bumper pads with yellow trim all along the bottom and yellow ric rac all along the top about 2 inches down..the baby quilt had some funky abstract pattern to it made with bright colours and I added a purple satin trim to it which was about 3 inches wide....since then, I can't be stopped...
PATTY :
actually it was need. after my first quilt i just kept going. i is so rewarding and relaxing. start and in just a few hours you too will become addicted. it is one of the greatest ways to make great friends. quilters are the friendliest people and always so helpful.
Shillo@Juno.com :
Both of my grandmother's quilted. They were of very limited means and used about every thing to make a quilt. I made my first doll quilt at the age of five years old from my uncle's old clothing and grandma's old dresses. I am 63 years old and still have this small quilt and cherish the memories I have of a very patient grandmother and a small lonely little girl who's mother worked out side of the home. God Bless Grandmother's every where. I have made more quilts than I can remember and have given most of them to niece, great nieces and my nephew, also my two son's. I am still waiting to do a baby quilt for a grandchild. Maybe some day.
Barb :
When I seen my first beautifully appliqued Baltimore Album quilt by Ellie S. I was hooked thinking someday I will make one if it takes the rest of my life,(possibly will) that was only 2 years ago. I have made 4 bed quilts and 3 wall hangings so far. I love to look at QNM,web sites and watch SQ. to keep me motivated.
Hollis :
I started withsewing, but did not like to fit things to my body. Next was needlepoint, but it got boring (to me) after a while. With quilting, you can do what you want to do, when you can do it. There are no rules that you (well, yes, there are some)but for the most part, you have lots of freedom.
anita :
I worked in a fabric store and made all of my girls cloths. I had lots of customers that were quilters and was exposed to lots of fabric. I think those things brought back memories of quilts we had when I was growing up and a neighbor who had shown mw how she did her work.
That was 15 years ago - I'm not sure how I got started. I pretty much just started to do it - that is how I learned to sew, knit, crochet, embroider etc.
I have made and documented 211 quilts to date - 3 in the works. Once I startrd I couldn't stop.
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