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| The Author |
My two boys are both twenty-something tech savvy types who call me "end loser."
The younger one (Younger Son or My Little Sailor) nagged me into starting a blog when his brother (Elder Son) pointed out this time last year that I was on track to make 52 quilts in 52 weeks. After that, it was all over but the Blogger registration.
I made my first quilt in 1976 while I was waiting for my fiancee' to return from Air Force technical training school so we could get married. It was a log cabin, using Eleanor Burn's pattern. This was before rotary cutters -- we "snipped" the selvage and tore across the width of the fabric! It was made from blue and mauve calico, and I donated it to the Salvation Army twenty years later.
Favorite quilting tip from my mother: "Measure twice (that's 2, two, TWO TIMES); cut once!"
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| Your Aunt Marti runs her new MegaQuilter Longarm quilting Machine |
Love the blog and as a transplanted San Franciscan, your orange blouse wows me - we love our orange here for the second time in three years !~! World Series Champs (that's baseball) in 2010 and now again in 2012.
ReplyDeleteThanks to your tach savvy son for the blog "clean-up" altho I don't know what magic he performed, I suspect it was needed and has helped a lot. Thanks for sharing your quilt journey.
You have a happy smiling face! Bet you are a terrific gal to know.
ReplyDeleteMarti, I can not say enough about the tutorial on that rollover- with flange- binding!!! And sewing it down by machine too. WOWOWOW. This is going to be tried on my next (now being pieced) quilt. TOO EASY!!!
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JulieinTN
PS I am a Bonnie K. Hunter Scrap Quilter...after almost 45 years quilting, I am so happy to have found her...and now YOU too!