CHAPTER 2 - SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING TRIANGLES (cont'd)

[lotti]

thank you ladies for all you efforts on our behalf
have FUN and ENJOY the sorting
i look so forward to whatever comes my way - that is going to be some quilt - made up of the hugs and thoughts from so many sisters - yeah
soooooooo coooooool 8)

[printmaker]

Dear fellow SotTTs,
I guess it is about time I introduce myself - I am Jackie Heupel and I live in Fredericksburg, TX, which is in south-central Texas commonly known as "the hill country," east of Austin and north of San Antonio. I have been a sometimes quilter since the early '80s when I started a quilt for my son (then 12 years old) using my old clothes and the book by Georgia Bonesteel on lap quilting. Most of those blocks are still unquilted since the batting seemed too thin so I doubled it!! Eric is now 43 with an 11 year old son of his own and I am sure that quilt will never again see the light of day. In about 2002 a friend of mine began a quilt group at the church. Its mission was to make quilts for every child at the time of their baptism. We now make baptism AND confirmation quilts, as well as quilts for the local hospital to use when an infant dies at birth (something for the parents to "take home") and quilts for "financially challenged" mothers to add to the layette items offered by the hospital itself. But my REAL passion is for art quilts for which I dye and stamp, print, paint, etc. the fabric.
When you asked us to ID a person who has been influential in our quilting I decided that it has to be Jane Dunnewald who taught me basically all I know about dying and all that other stuff I do to the fabric that goes into my art quilts. I took a 5 day workshop at her studio in San Antonio soon after my son introduced me to her work just as I was starting to quilt again. I have tried to spend summer mornings, before it gets too hot, dying fabric to use in all sorts of projects during the rest of the year.
As many others have said, I want to add my thanks to the ones who have made this exchange possible - and sooooo much fun. I am blessed to live close enough to be able to drive over to Katy for the sorting and will be able to give Debby and Clara my thanks in person AND get a sneak peek at all of those HSTs! Who could resist? Of course, DH has no idea why I am so determined to drive over 4 hours and book a hotel room just to fool around with some "little bits of cloth!" (Anyone who has a suggestion for explaining it to him please chime in here.)

Happy quilting to all and to all a good night! :lol:

[printmaker]

Hi to all in the USA and the rest of the world.
The last time I was involved in a big exchange was the millineum - still to finish the quilt with all those 2.5 or 3 inch squares plus the 'siggy' square. I am almost there and maybe some of you are the people I exchanged with back in 2000/2001.
I am a Kiwi ( New Zealander) who has lived in Australia since 1979. Since this time I have had 3 children and 5 grandchildren. When I arrived in Australia I was a spinner and weaver but became involved with Patchwork in 1980 - my first quilt for my second born is still not finished even though she hassles me all the time. It is a grandmother's flower garden of hexagons.
I have made many quilts over the years mostly to be given away or raffled off - I love the joy of thinking about a new project and going through my stash to see what will fit - and if not to go and buy some more. I love to find new ways to get it from the car into my sewing room. It is almost like an alcoholic with the bottle in a plain paper bag - why should we feel the need to behave like this.
I currently reside in Jabiru - the town located in Kakadu National Park which is on the world heritage list - I am refining my quilting into photos printed on fabric - altered through Photoshop - using my hand dyed fabrics etc and refining into art quilts. At the same time I really love scrap quilts and am enthusiastic about using the HST's. I have made many more and am using the quilt patterns for these. I am making a quilt to be raffled for the Christchurch Earthquake - my husband grew up there and they are going through a tough time.
I have loved reading about the others involved in this exchange and I notice a common thread with our backgrounds - many of us taught our basics at the hands of masters - our mothers or our grandmothers. I have tried to teach textiles to young people but they come with absolutely no skills - cannot thread a needle, don't know how a sewing machine works etc.
Making something is such a rewarding process I feel that it is important for governments to recognize this and to embed this into the school curriculum from a very early age. For those of us who have had the luxury of learning these skills at the laps of the older generations we are very blessed.
I am really looking forward to receiving my HST's back and then sharing what I do with them.
A big thank you to the ladies doing all the hard work - sorting them all out.
Love reading about you all and when I receive my swaps putting a person to a HST.

Regards from a very wet Northern Australia - it has been an incredibly 'wet' wet season.

Bev Adams

[printmaker]

Oh my goodness I am sitting here laughing my head off, it must all be in the name as my name is Barbara also, I totally relate to your comments and as I was reading and looking at the hat I had exactly the same thoughts as what you had and was about to type it out only to scroll down and read it already written out for me, GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE, or at least I hope we have great minds, HARRY POTTER no less and MICKEY what else is there left to say, it has already been said for me :lol: :lol: :lol: DON'T YOU LOVE THAT HAT :lol:

[DebbieWolf]

A beautiful and happy Sunday morning, April 10, 2011, to all of you in SoTTT's Land! We have officially created a new Forum Topic to carry us into even more fun times and wonderful posts. This Chapter 2 thread will remain open for a little while so everyone will have a chance to discover the new one. You can continue to post things here that you'd like others to see, but you would probably be better posting on the new one...or both for a while.

Final count of packages is 560 (Rosemary Cousins is 560!) containing 224,359 HSTs.


At your convenience :wink: , please visit the link below to SoTTTs Chapter 3 - The Sorting and Beyond!

http://forum/friendship-triangle-exc...ing-and-beyond

[snowladyns]

Jackie Tell DH it is like driving to the Super Bowl and getting to play, I would trade my first born to be with the sisters. Joan

[snowladyns]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Is this Quilt Nirvana or what??? All you guys are the ABSOLUTE BEST!!!! I am sooooooooo happy to be part of this fabulous friendship triangle exchange that began with Edyta Sitar (aka "The Doll" by her husband!) being a guest teacher on Alex and Ricky's TQS! WOWIE, WOW, WOW!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: My personal prescription to eliminate depression: "Forget Your Troubles and Just Get Happy"...and mingle with a bunch of passionate, caring, generous quilters and learn about quilting and life! :wink: (Uh, oh, I think I just quoted another song... ops: )

Shirley
Gresham, OR

[AlohaJo]

Hi to all in the USA and the rest of the world.
The last time I was involved in a big exchange was the millineum - still to finish the quilt with all those 2.5 or 3 inch squares plus the 'siggy' square. I am almost there and maybe some of you are the people I exchanged with back in 2000/2001.
I am a Kiwi ( New Zealander) who has lived in Australia since 1979. Since this time I have had 3 children and 5 grandchildren. When I arrived in Australia I was a spinner and weaver but became involved with Patchwork in 1980 - my first quilt for my second born is still not finished even though she hassles me all the time. It is a grandmother's flower garden of hexagons.
I have made many quilts over the years mostly to be given away or raffled off - I love the joy of thinking about a new project and going through my stash to see what will fit - and if not to go and buy some more. I love to find new ways to get it from the car into my sewing room. It is almost like an alcoholic with the bottle in a plain paper bag - why should we feel the need to behave like this.
I currently reside in Jabiru - the town located in Kakadu National Park which is on the world heritage list - I am refining my quilting into photos printed on fabric - altered through Photoshop - using my hand dyed fabrics etc and refining into art quilts. At the same time I really love scrap quilts and am enthusiastic about using the HST's. I have made many more and am using the quilt patterns for these. I am making a quilt to be raffled for the Christchurch Earthquake - my husband grew up there and they are going through a tough time.
I have loved reading about the others involved in this exchange and I notice a common thread with our backgrounds - many of us taught our basics at the hands of masters - our mothers or our grandmothers. I have tried to teach textiles to young people but they come with absolutely no skills - cannot thread a needle, don't know how a sewing machine works etc.
Making something is such a rewarding process I feel that it is important for governments to recognize this and to embed this into the school curriculum from a very early age. For those of us who have had the luxury of learning these skills at the laps of the older generations we are very blessed.
I am really looking forward to receiving my HST's back and then sharing what I do with them.
A big thank you to the ladies doing all the hard work - sorting them all out.
Love reading about you all and when I receive my swaps putting a person to a HST.

Regards from a very wet Northern Australia - it has been an incredibly 'wet' wet season.

Bev Adams

Bev,
Thank you for believing that learning to use ones hands to complete something is so important to learning for all children. I am one of only a few lucky teachers in the US public schools able to still do this and these programs are disappearing form schools so quickly. Today many kids don't have an older family member who has these skills to pass on and so if not shared in school or community they will not get the joy we all seem to share with our fabric and sewiing addiction. Please keep trying to share with the Kiwi kids. I will now call you one of my Sisters of the Cloth. Maryjo Kaszubinski Celebration, Florida USA - Near Micky Mouse
PS- Can't wait to include your HST in my project.

[AlohaJo]

Today was my last day of Pie judging. I am glad to be done, too many calories! Today it was raisin pies a very different category. Some great others not so tasty! I promise no more posting about pies. Maryjo :lol:

[AlohaJo]

My van is sooooo full. The Sorting Queen :lol: :lol: :lol:

[AlohaJo]

My van is sooooo full. The Sorting Queen :lol: :lol: :lol:

Are you catching a tornado to fly to Kansas and find a hideaway to quilt in for the rest of your life?????

[printmaker]

Josew, Ohhhhh, that sounds like fun, but who would feed me? anyone care to come along as chief cook and bottle washer?! Jackie

[DebbieWolf]

My van is sooooo full. The Sorting Queen :lol: :lol: :lol:

And my house is sooooo empty! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[DebbieWolf]

"The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff (I do NOT consider HST's to be "stuff"!) -- it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel." --- Abraham, Excerpted from the workshop in Lincroft, NJ on Tuesday, October 15th, 1996 #39.

I felt this quote from the Abraham-Hicks newsletter today was very appropriate. I think it's safe to say we're all feeling a lot of joy :P from this whole SoTTT the past 3 months, and we're all clinging to the molding, :mrgreen: waiting for our 1 gallon zip lock bags of those joyful, little HST goodies to arrive soon! Hey, I just thot of something...they could be our zip lock Easter baskets from those cute Easter Bunnies...Debbie and Clara! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Happy HST waiting...
Shirley
Gresham, OR

[AlohaJo]

Debbie and Clara in Bunny Ears with cottontails on their next adventure! 8)