What does quilting mean to you?
06-03-2011, 11:20 AM
#82
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Location: New York State, but I will always be Canadian!
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For me it is my mental health. I feel it when I can't quilt for awhile. Much like a clean house is my mental stability. My poor husband suffers when I can't quilt and the house is a mess.
:) (most of the time I can't quilt BECAUSE the house is a mess...therefore, so am I!)
:) (most of the time I can't quilt BECAUSE the house is a mess...therefore, so am I!)
06-03-2011, 12:51 PM
#87
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Location: East Tennessee
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Your question made me think about something that I normally just take for granted. Over the years, I guess quilting has been many different things--a way to connect to the past, an act of creativity, an expression of love for friends and family, a way to deal with stress and unhappiness. Right now, my best friend of 35 years is dying of leukemia. She has only a month or so to live. I am making a quilt that she promised to another friend and was unable to complete and, in doing so, I'm helping to deal with my own sadness.
I think there is something inside us that needs to create and that need finds expression in different ways--photography, painting, sculpture, basket weaving. For me, it's mostly quilting.
I think there is something inside us that needs to create and that need finds expression in different ways--photography, painting, sculpture, basket weaving. For me, it's mostly quilting.
06-03-2011, 01:58 PM
#89
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Location: In the Panhandle of Texas
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I've used quilting, embroidering, crafting, etc. as my release & therapy and relaxation for years and years. With quilting I continue to learn with every single quilt I make. Many, many times I have started a quilt having absolutely no idea what I am going to do with it to put it together - and then an idea comes to be (obviously from God) and a new quilt is born. I love giving and sharing with others - such a joy.
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