I dreamed last night about embroidery. What is it about spring that makes me want to sew. I even woke up after the dream, still half asleep and placed the exact embroidery project was under my worktable, not 10 feet from me. My craft year has it's cycles. About September it is time to pull out the knitting needles. Once spring hits I cannot bear to knit. The sewing machine runs hot between April-August. Mostly in the way of piecing quilts. I used to handquilt too. I have made about 6+ large handquilted quilts. I quilt very very slow....its alot of time invested. I live in a teeny weeny town in Kansas but it has a charming active quilt shop with an innovative creative great machine quilter. I just haven't taken the time to get it together and take a top down there. I think the reason I also slowed way down on the quilting process is that I owe my Mom a handquilted top that she pieced out of 2" squares. Tough to quilt. I have 2 other tops finished and two more in the works. I love them all. The last 6-8 years I have collected mostly Kaffe Fassett fabrics. Hot hot spice colors. Makes me dream of India. Shah Rukh Khan (all sigh). Meow. My worktable is 100% Etsy jewelry work-I am going to rework the work space. Wish me luck! Speaking of quilts and sewing. This is the 20th Anniversary of the Love Quilt. My daughter Anna died in 1988 and we moved to Colorado 2 days later. I started a year-long 'learn to quilt' class in 1989 and finished the 'Love quilt' in 1990. It is starting to show some wear and tear. Just like it should from being 'loved'.
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