My little cousin once asked me why I quilted. It was an interesting question, and I've been pondering it. Decided to set up a poll on my blog to address this question. I would love to hear from all of you lovely and talented RTCQ quilters. If you could spare a moment, please come and take the poll.
Thank you! Michelle in Nevada
I think I quilt because I love colors. Even when I was a little girl, I was more interested in taking a book and "fanning" it to see all the beautiful colors blur together than I was in reading it. I thought tempera paint was the most awesome thing about grade school, well, that and a 64-count set of Crayons (had to have magenta, midnight blue, and brick red) My 30 year career was in advertising design (newspaper). I had to quit work at 46, and I felt like I had a hole in my life because I had no creative outlet. I drug out my mother's 15-91, which I did not even know how to thread, and I taught myself to piece tops, then to handquilt, mostly from books. I came from a long line of quilters. My great-grandmother created beautiful, colorful, quilts from feed sacks and scraps. I never met her, but I know every one of those quilts. My grandmother also quilted--her quilts were scraps from the dresses she made my sister and I, and our two cousins. The first time I set up her quilting frame (she was long dead by then), I felt this odd feeling that I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing. I wasn't too far into the quilt when I realized I was sewing with my tongue sticking out and folded down over my lip. Exactly like my grandmother. It was totally unconscious on my part, but the realization was sort of like approval from her!
Sherry
I quilt because it makes my arms long. I can hug a little fellow so far away that I can't spell the name of the place or find it on a map. I can snuggle him in soft, warm happy. A blanket would almost do the same thing but a quilt says 'somebody loves me'. Polly
"Sherry"
Oh Polly! You said it so beautifully! Me too, I quilt with love. Michelle G.
I quilt because I can't write anymore. I quilt to remind myself to get up every morning. I quilt for the color and the texture so that I can find pleasure in a day that may otherwise be filled with pain and sickness. I quilt to give my life meaning.
I found quilting at a time when I was losing everything else in my life (except for the three people who actually love me the most). I grabbed onto it and it kept me from drowning. I may never be more than an adequate quilter, but I love being immersed in color and I love watching a quilt come to life under my foot feed.
Sunny
'Cause it's legal, non-fattening, and cheaper than Bingo! (or so I tell my DH)
Frances
It keeps me out of the bars, here in town. Oh Wait. This is a dry town. Damn, now how am I going to justify all this fabric to my wife? John
Hey. I'm on that one. 'It keeps you from supervising her'. She'd probably encourage you in just any pursuit so long as you don't follow her around and suggest better ways of doing things. Polly
"John" < It keeps me out of the bars, here in town. Oh Wait. This is a dry town. Damn, now how am I going to justify all this fabric to my wife? John
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