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    Old 04-17-2011, 05:09 PM
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    I started piece quilting after I turned 50 because a friend invited me to a BOM at a local quilt shop--it was such a great deal. You paid $5.00 for a kit for your first block. If you brought it back finished the next month, then the next block was free. I finished 12 beautiful blocks and only paid $5.00.
    After that I was hooked. A couple of years ago, I did ten BOMs at the same time. Now I work on my own and don't do the BOMs anymore. I have more kits, patterns, and fabric now then I could ever use in a life time...it's fabulous!!!
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    Old 04-17-2011, 05:12 PM
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    I have no idea! shrug
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    Old 04-17-2011, 06:25 PM
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    Every year my DH and I always go to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge in Tenn. and always our 1st shopping stop would be the quilt shop. I told him last year I'm going to learn how to quilt. He said yeah right! You see, didn't sew and didn't even want to learn growing up. My Mom is a sewer and my Granny was a quilter. But got a pattern online and made my first quilt last fall. Traded my emerald & diamond braclet for a new sewing machine and now I'm definately hooked...
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    Old 04-17-2011, 06:36 PM
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    Originally Posted by craftybear
    What inspired you to start quilting?
    As a child, I always knew that I loved quilts, however didn't think that I would ever be able to make one. Now that I am retired, there is no stopping me. It's my addiction and I love it.
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    Old 04-17-2011, 10:10 PM
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    My mother died when I was 14 and I was sent to the country to live with my GRandmother. I mean real Country , with out- door plumbing , coal stove to cook on etc etc. She made quilts to keep us warm , not art.Some are Still in my possesion. and I am in my 70"s .I thank God for her Training. and Patience. She use to say " Make smaller stitches, Those are toe nail Hangers" lol , Cmaras
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    oops sorry
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    Old 04-18-2011, 03:21 AM
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    I had been sewing for myself for many years, making most of my own clothes. After I retired, I was working in the costume dept of the local university and became friends with the mother of one of the girls in the cast. I knew she was a quilter, but it didn't interest me that much. Then she asked me if I wanted to go to a quilt show with her one weekend. I did, got interested, and the next thing I knew, I was becoming a fq collector and loving it.
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    Originally Posted by craftybear
    What inspired you to start quilting?
    My husaband and daughter are both very artistic people. Although I have sewn a lot over the years, I had a friend who was in a quilt guild and I though it might be fun to go see what others were creating. I got the bug. I am a fabricaholic and a paternaholic. My husband enjoys my glee at finishing something that can be used and still be an outlet for my artistic side.
    Great Hobby, Great Guy!!
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    Old 04-18-2011, 08:50 AM
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    My co-worker - Connie. She is a quilter and said I could do it too. Little did I (or she) realize what she was getting me into! LOL
    A Longarming and quilting business with some designing going on too! My second quilt I designed myself!
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    Old 04-18-2011, 10:16 AM
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    I always wanted a quilt but no way could afford to buy one. Soooo as I am a sewer anyway, deceided to make my own.
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