A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....07-29-03...Quilts, Men, America and Such

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[Billie]

[Billie]

Quilts?! A thread about QUILTING?!!!! But what about the MEN?!

The MEN better come and see what they're saying about them! That's all I have to say about it! And most especially a certain Diver guy. :)

Though I don't quilt, I love old-fashioned ones.
This is on one of my beds. ~Billie

[Billie]

Gail, thank you for all the wonderful contributions to today's thread - love all the 'animals' that Freezie made into that collage!

RJayne, your quilt is really lovely. Thank you for sharing it with us.

It was such fun doing the design and layout for today's thread. The background I used is a very old quilt that's been in our family forever.

[FreeTheHostages]

What a lovely welcome post/pillow!

[Fiddlstix]

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the Pics J

Coffee & Donuts J

[FreeTheHostages]

Wow, Billie, that's a beautiful quilt on your bed. If you look at the piecework and the quilt design lines, it's actually fairly modern. The choice of fabric is traditional, though!

I love the border on this one! I like traditional too!! I love all quilts.

[Billie]

Thanks, Freezie - it's actually the center of the quilt (though it 'does' look like a pillow the way it's vignetted, doesn't it?) :)

I'll be back in a bit.

The Calendar Page today LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A QUILT!!!

[FreeTheHostages]

The background I used is a very old quilt that's been in our family forever.

And it matches GailA's sofa!

[FreeTheHostages]

I gots news for you. To me, EVERYTHING "looks like it could be a quilt." ;)

[FreeTheHostages]

{{{Billie}}} Gasp, I love the pledge! I just saw it.

[FreeTheHostages]

FR girlfriends -- pinging you to this quilting thread.

Cc: Long -- Vermont Quilt Festival quilt photos. Hee hee, I know, I know, I should "just shoot" you if you ever end up at a quilt festival.

[Dubya]

Beautuiful Thread today. Great work.

[Pippin]

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!!!!!!

(((PIPPIN HUGS))) to EVERYONE!

I don't quilt, but I,m surrounded by quilters and quilts :O)

I even helped design some special quilts my mom made for several oof my nieces and nephews as well as my uncle for his 80th birthday a year ago.

I think quilts are neat!

[iceskater]

Wow, what a great topic. I've never taken up quilting but I can appreciate the work that goes into making them. Beautiful, just beautiful. All of them!

[Billie]

Awwww, look - your mom quilts, too. :)

Morning, wolfie. :)

[LadyX]

This is an outstanding Finest Introduction 101 to Quilting, Freezie!

Every time I saw my father's mother in her latter years, she was doing a piece of quilting, and my own mother enjoyed it also.
At an early age I sewed many of my own clothes and did embroidery and knitting, but got sidetracked with a family of five and working full time, not enough hours in a given day to indulge. Preferred to work outdoors or read.
Always thought I'd 'have plenty of time' to do handwork when I retired.

However, a problem with my hands developed in my 40's (tenovitis - inflammation of the fluid around the joints) that prevents me from comfortably doing that; even holding a sponge or rag to scrub and clean affects them. (No, doctor - the 25 years on Colchicine twice a day is not for old man's gout)

I therefore channeled my 'creative' nature to the computer keyboard, employing words and graphics on screen....
aka 'Doing Freep Art'..:))

Surely a Conservative Skill Effort, doncha think?

[Billie]

Spookie posted this to me a week or so ago - it fits PERFECTLY today's thread!

[LadyX]

"I think quilts are neat!"

{{{{{ Pippin }}}}}

The Finest thinks Pippin is neat...:))

Top of the mornin' to ya, HON, there in Bal'mer - - -

[Billie]

Morning, f'stix. Coffee's exceptionally good this morning. :)

[Billie]

I found the quilt in (I think) a Spiegel catalog and fell in love with it for the quiet, old-fashioned 'look' in the colors used in the fabric pieces.