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Day 16: Quilting Bee Invitation

Welcome to the quilting bee. A quilting bee in cyberspace.

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Comment by lima on October 22, 2010 at 1:15pm: After watching all your videos, I think I am going to take up quilting and see what comes of it. I have many old dresses from my mother and grandmother that are almost over 50 years old or more that I am now thinking of cutting up and doing something with them. I can't fit into them. I also have a lot of clothes I was going to give to the goodwill, but I think I am going to go through some of them and use the eccentric patterns for the quilt as well.

What is the first thing I want to do? Consider the design of the quilt?

Comment by lima on October 22, 2010 at 1:35pm: Also, material.. should I stay away from certain materials? Like t-shirt cotton as opposed to dress shirt cotton? Will some material unravel later down the road?

Comment by BlancheNoE on October 23, 2010 at 7:09am: I'm so very honored to be in your hive. I would like to hear one life story, maybe relevant to a panel in the quilt you're quilting,...oh, and while I'm here, did you hear that Mabel said Mrs. Buttermaker saw Celia leaning in quite close to the mailman while touching him rather suggestively on the arm?,..*raises eyebrows for emphasis*,..mmm-hmm,...and Joyce said Celia PURPosely super glued her her box shut so he'd HAVE to bring the mail to the door,..OH, and she was wearing NOTHing but her flannel union suit *clucks tongue*,..and all while her husband is working SO hard on the road,...*wags head and sighs with satisfaction at the disapproving expressions all around*

Comment by Marie on October 23, 2010 at 8:01am: You have ~~created~~ lived art in so many different mediums... Is there one you would like to explore but have not to date?

Comment by Geoff on October 25, 2010 at 9:33am: Great idea, the cyber-bee business. I usually begin work somewhere in the middle of my videos and end up with a few or several segments that then need to be stitched together. Since I started watching this series I've started calling the segments "strips" in my internal conversations.

Comment by NatureJunkie on October 28, 2010 at 11:47am: My best friend and I get together once a week to work on our mosaic projects, and others have joined and left us over time. We've been doing this for more than ten years. The social aspect of being with her is far more important to me than the things I end up making, and I imagine that's true for the participants of quilting bees too. If distance ever separates us, I'm sure that an internet conference of some kind could allow us to continue, but it would never facilitate the warmth and immediacy these sessions contain now. If my kindred spirits are nearby, I'm inclined to stay in their neighborhood.

Comment by tree on October 28, 2010 at 12:22pm: That sounds wonderful. You are most fortunate . . .