Crafts is a big category and includes about any interest you might have about ‘things to make’: sewing, home decorating, knitting, crochet, quilting and such. Raises a question, though, about hobbiests: writers, painters, scrimschaw carvers. Hmmm. Let’s include them all. Right now, I have Genealogy simmering on a back burner–no time–because when I get into it, days vanish, stomachs empty, all the clean clothes get used up and there I am, tracking someone who hasn’t left a lot of information behind. If there is an interest, we would probably open a category for that alone. Ask questions, if you like. One of us might be able to answer or could have a link for you.

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I spent June of last year with a family in another country and took along some fabric to begin a new quilt, mostly so my host family wouldn’t feel compelled to entertain me all the time. He watched from a distance as I began–this being the first time in his life he had seen the process, much less the product. Without ridicule he inquired, “So you are cutting big pieces of fabric into small pieces, then sewing them back together into a big piece; is that it?”Quilting has come a long way since our American grandmothers–as small girls–began with the Four-Patch and worked their ways up–as young betrothed women–to The Baltimore Bride. If you’re nostalgic, go ahead and get it out of your system. When you’re ready for speed-cutting, strip-sewing and patterns our grannies couldn’t even imagine, visit http://www.fonsandporter.com or Google “quilting patterns” to find late-20th and 21st Century adventures in quilting.

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