Sunday, August 01, 2010

Wholly Quilts

 

 

 

Wholly Quilts August Newsletter

 

G’day

Have you ever stopped to think how quilting has changed your life? Maybe it hasn’t but personally I have found it The Most effective (and productive) method of group therapy!

It was brought back to me recently when I received a text message from someone I went out with way back and I mean way back – like 40-something years ago. Yes I was there and can remember the 60s or almost most of that decade!

Alan had tracked me down and phoned for a catch up then a couple of days later I received the following text:

‘I heard about someone who made quilts most of her life. She said the rest of her life she just wasted time. Strange.’

I couldn’t see anything strange about that at all!! When I told him so he said that the first time he met me I was knitting. Knitting! Quilting! Hands working on a project to warm! Sometimes everything changes – sometimes nothing.

 

Pumpkin Patch

If you get amongst the plants in the garden, and you have to when the pruning needs doing, you can see the promise of yummy things to come. Spring is so close to springing that I can savour those little green buds. About the only crops left for eating right now though are the green ones that have survived the frosts. It is those cold mornings though that heads you back to quilts and quilting. Meanwhile the promise of the bright yellow daffies and blooming lavender brightens my days.

 

Projects

I am always amazed at the different interpretations put on quilt patterns. Colour choices and method executions always personalise our quilts and create the variations. It is good to see.

I know I have been promising you a new Project now that the Sampler is finished but life and family have overtaken me this month. I am working on it and will take it with me to Nelson where I am off to in a couple of days.

My big sister has just undergone breast surgery – please keep up with your checks and mammograms for yourselves as much as family and friends. It seems that Karen has been fortunate in that the lump was found early enough.

 

Regards

Natalie Murdoch

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