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Garbie - Amazing! Is who you are!

I love, love, love your quilts! They are absolutely beautiful! I could study them for days - all. the. stitches...

I have sewn on & off since I was... 8? 9? (almost 61 now). In the late 1970s-early 80s I made a lot of my own clothes ("Home Ec" classes... don'tcha know). I loved using upholstery fabric for jackets and other garments (people thought I was so weird). I made conventional cross stitch embroidery things... I made more conventional things for my children and myself until...fast forward to 2018 and my husband had a massive, debilitating stroke.

I had to have something to relieve the stress but something that was also highly interruptible, so I started embroidering again. (Sadly, he passed away in 2019.)

I've kept sewing through COVID and now... I've started re-loving garment making, re-embracing my weird. Recently I've made dresses out of kitchen curtains, a shower curtain, bed sheets; a cape from some groovy mid-century upholstery fabric I found at a second-hand shop; visible mending... a patchwork duster out of some old scarves I love but wasn't wearing much ... I'm loving sewing again! And learning so much! There's never "too late" for sewing!

I teach high school and some students have expressed interested in learning to sew. I can't wait to recommend your series to them. I really admire you and your art. Thank you so much for being an inspiration!!

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