My Life as a Quilter

Friday, October 21, 2011

This is the new quilt I'm working on. 18 stars. It's the American flag (sort of). I love stars. They are my favorite so I picked this kit up in Austin, TX. I flew to Austin to where my niece lives. I live in Oregon. Well, she needed to go to Washington State and she came down with "fear of flying" a few years ago so I flew down and we drove up to Oregon and she dropped me off at my home and continued on to Washington State (Seattle).
It took us three days to get to Oregon. We stayed in nice hotels each night (which I needed desperately). We drove up to 11 hours a day to get back up here. When we were done driving for the day, I could hardly straighten my body out. I'm too old for big "road trips".
Anyway, I bought the kit at "The Quilting Bee" in Round Rock, TX. I love that store. It's my new favorite quilt shop. They have so many quilts on the wall and every quilt they show has the kit for it (love it) and I ended up buying three kits that day. This is one of the kits I bought. Since then, I buy from them online. You need to check them out.

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ТатьянаOctober 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM
I liked your set on the blanket. Out very nicely. The American flag is very nice.You had a great trip. Come to me to Russia to visit. We have very beautiful.
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I live in north eastern Oregon in the foothills of Mt. Fanny. We have long, snowy winters and short hot summers. I am married with two grown children who live in the San Juan Islands. My husband is a conductor for the railroad. I was a conductor for the railroad before I decided to stay home and quilt. I quilt most days until I have a "I can't do it anymore" moment and walk away from it for a week or more. But I always come back to quilting. I've made more than 30 quilts in 2 years and have given all but 9 away. I have a son, Cabel, who is 35 and is an Xray technician and the computer guy at the hospital in his town. He has everything going for him. He is excellent with computers, golf, makes apps and makes good money doing it, extremely witty, fun to be around, calls me all the time, very good son, love him so much. My daughter is 31, is a sleep lab tech at the same hospital, married to Joey, has two cats, Dudder and Squeaker. Annie is still my baby. Guess she always will be and she knows it. She is quick witted and makes me laugh till I can't breathe. She loves to read old classic books. Her favorite movie is "Breakfast at Tiffiny's". I once paid her $50 to read "Roots" because I knew she'd love it. After she read it and I paid her (she was in grade school), she said she would have read it for free because it was so good. I paid her to read John Steinbeck also. I'm glad I did. Now she knows good books. I tried forever to get her to read "The Tao of Pooh", even left it at her house, but she refused to read it. I just talked to her and she said she was reading it (1 1/2 years later) and she loved it. It changed my outlook on life. It is like Taoism 101. It's pronounced Dow-ism. It's an easy way to learn the basics about Taoism. Taoism makes life easy. Makes life flow. Lets you walk through life. Read it. It will be a good beginning to learning about Taoism. Taoism is about a way of life, that's all. It makes you happy and makes you enjoy what you have and not want. That's all I'm going to say. But it truly changed me. Piglet has a book out, too. Can't remember the name. I bought it, but haven't read it yet. It's similar in it's teaching, but about a different way of life. They aren't about religion. Get that straight right away. It's about YOUR way of looking at life.

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