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About Me: I am a born-again quilter. I started quilting in High School, and quilted from 1975 - 1990 until my two daughters lives got busy and my quilting time ended. I am a small business owner who works way too much so until two years ago I still did not find the time to do much more then work and build my business. The event that got me back into quilting was the death of my Mom who passed way way too fast from cancer. SHE was the quilter in our family and she was waiting to retire to REALLY have time to quilt. She passed away 6 months before her retirement and her words to me was NOT TO WAIT to do something you love - you may miss your chance. She blessed me with the stash and everything I needed for a life time and all the motivation to get back what I love to do. I miss her every momnet of the day but know she speaks to me through the fabric and projects I am learning and enjoying. I joined the Quilt Guild in my town and am know surrounded by new "Mom's" who are teaching me so many new things. I am blessed to be a born-again Quilter.

Hobbies and Interests: quilting, paper piecing, crazy quilting

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Almost fourth of July!

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 3:20pm 3 Comments 0 Favorites

Happy Fourth of July - quilters! Aren't we blessed to live in a counrty that allows us to do so many things freely - even quilting! I know I am blessed everyday - being able to gather with so many great friends in my guild (freedom to assemble) the ability to LEARN and BUY what ever we need to be successful and enjoy my obsession. HURRAY America!

I am planning our Round Robin Retreat for the 7th of July in a wonderful Cabin/house in "Plain Washington" and after our wild little… Continue

WOW so many new friends to come home to!

Posted on May 21, 2009 at 4:48pm 3 Comments 0 Favorites

WOW - I had no idea how cool this site was until I came home today from working in EL PASO Texas (no quilt shops...darn) and found so many new friends had stopped at my site. I am having so much fun seeing other peoples work and their pictures. "Don't you just love the power and psossibilities of the internet. Memorial Day weekend is here and I am hoping for an extended QUILTING session without much interruption. I travel many, many weeks of the year which is good and bad. GOOD because I get to… Continue

I am excited to find "quilt with us"!

Posted on May 16, 2009 at 11:49am 4 Comments 0 Favorites

I have been recieving Counting Threads for a couple of years and just now went to the website and found "quilt with us" section. LOVE IT!!! I plan to tell all my quilt friends about it so we can keep up with each others projects. I will use it to send my family and friends to also - they will be able to keep up with what I am doing with my obsession.

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At 1:17am on June 29, 2010, Mary johnson said…: Dear Friends

The challenge is out, lets see how many of us can join the wonderful new campaign called Stitching for Pink !!! Starts today until 30 October. Its gonna be so much fun with 10 projects to complete. Come on Embroiderers lets unite and join the fight against Breast Cancer !!!

Go sign up now and let the fun begin.

http://www.stitchingforpink.org/

Hope we see you there

Mary

At 2:54pm on May 2, 2010, Linda Bodkin, ON said…: Yes! What a cute store! The Cherry Pit has much the same "flavour" as the knitting shop my daughter frequents in Toronto. There is a circle of easy chairs in the centre and everyone brings their knitting and chats and has coffee, and sweets, etc. there is always someone to help in the shop or give advice to each other and newer knitters. I even go and take my quilting sometimes, although I may end up keeping track of my DGD's (6 & 2) if we happen to have brought them along!

At 3:48am on April 30, 2010, Linda Bodkin, ON said…: Thanks for getting back to me! It was a great time in Tenn. and then we went on to Fla. where the weather was fabulous! It was a long drive, but the scenery was worth it! I hadn't done the road trip to the south before. We loved seeing the redbud trees and the dogwood - and trillium (flower of Ontario too!)
I got a lot of hand quilting done on my Stack n Whack in the evenings while we were away, and my friend did some cross stitching.
Are you working on your new project yet, or on something else?

At 11:19am on September 20, 2009, Carol McNab said…: Happy birthday Kate,
You have shared some great looking quilts.
Hope you have a great day.
:)Carol

At 10:07am on September 20, 2009, Bobbie Demster said…: Happy Birthdat Kate!!!

At 7:30am on September 20, 2009, Connecting Threads said…: Happy Birthday Kate!

At 5:42am on September 20, 2009, Linda Richards/N. Ontario said…: Sorry to hear about your Mom Kate. Glad you have been given the motivation to get back into quilting. Hope you have a very happy birthday and truly enjoy the day.

At 12:57am on September 20, 2009, Gayle/La. said…: Happy Birthday to you Kate!! I hope you have a great day.

At 5:18am on September 19, 2009, Margo in Maine said…: A special day to be celebrated...Happy Birthday....have a wonderful JOY filled day......Blessings...Kate

At 6:40pm on July 6, 2009, CT Quilt Shows Admin said…: Hi Kate,
I've added your show to our events calendar. Please note our events software requires start and end times. Since I didn't have any, I entered 1am to 1am so it's obvious that it's wrong. Let me know if you'd like me to add hours.

Thanks!
Karen

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