Hello, Thanks & Need Help

First of all, let me thank you all for the dozens and dozens (hundreds and hundreds?) of helpful tips you've given me the past two years since I got bitten by the Quilting Bug!

It's amazing to me just how quickly I went from, "Gee, I'd really like to try that some day..." to total and complete obsession -- I love it too :-) I know you don't "see" me, but I'm here every day, and there's not a day goes by that I don't learn something from the group.

I'm hoping someone out there will have a suggestion or two for me. I'm looking for fabrics with a South American flavor. Not food-related, but with a definite Brazilian "bent" by virtue of color or style. A good friend of mine is from Brazil and her mother is in the final stages of a very long illness. I want to make a quilt for my friend that will not only warm her but make her think of "home."

I thought I was pretty good at finding just about any kind of fabric on the 'net, but hours of searching have turned up nothing of use. Any and all suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thank you again for everything, Billi (in chilly Portland, Oregon)

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Billi
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maryd

Howdy!

Welcome to the light of day...er.. public RCTQ, Billi. ;-D

Just saw that giseleschoene blog, very nice. Good place to start getting inspired.

Also ran across this shop:

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Fuxico (looks like yo-yos to me )
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Brazilian chitas:

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Brazil flag: green, yellow, blue :
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Good luck!

R/Sandy

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Sandy Ellison

Can't quite remember, but isn't the Brazilian flag pretty colorful? Red-yellow-green, or something? You could make any design that pleases you using the correct colors of almost-solids, e.g. Moda marbles, set off with black for dramatic effect. Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

Welcome to the "public" cyber quilting frame, Billi! Chilly? WET Portland, OR - I grew up there (a loooonnnngggg time ago!) I left 'cuz I started to grow moss between my toes

Reply to
ME-Judy

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:30:18 -0800, maryd wrote (in article ):

Oh, this is beautiful stuff! Thank you so much for the link!

Billi (In chilly & very windy Portland, Oregon)

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Billi

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:01:07 -0800, Sandy Ellison wrote (in article ):

Thank you! I really enjoy all I read here!

Isn't it beautiful stuff? I wish I could read Portuguese (sp?).

Sandy, thank you for the great links! I've checked them all and I'm trying to figure out how to order from the one in Brazil. I'll let the group know if I have any luck :-)

Billi (In breezy & cool Portland, Oregon)

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Billi

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:02:44 -0800, Roberta Zollner wrote (in article ):

Roberta, you're right and thank you! I'm hoping my Brazilian friend is as fond of bright colors as I am :-)

Billi (In stupidly-cold-right-now Portland, Oregon)

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Billi

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:12:58 -0800, ME-Judy wrote (in article ):

Thank you for the welcome, Judy :-) I'm a life-long Portlander but still, after 25 (*cough* OK, more like 50) years here, I still hate the cold and rain -- yet love living here. Go figure :-)

Maybe that's why I gravitate to bright, warm colors? I have a friend from Southern California who commented on all of the brightly painted houses he sees up here. I think that's so they show up against the gray skies!

Billi (In chilly Portland, Oregon -- which has had two snow events already this season!)

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Billi

Hi Billi, My name is Launie (Law-knee) and I live in Clatskanie....we are practically neighbors! Welcome to the group.

Launie, in Oregon

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simpleseven

The thing you probably love is SPRING! The roses, (and the Rose Parade), and all the beautiful flowers - the early daffodills, then the summer rhododendrons, then the fall colors (and then the rain starts again!) What HS did you go to? (I went to Jefferson)

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ME-Judy

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:14:21 -0800, ME-Judy wrote (in article ):

Judy,

Wow, we are going OT here :-) Perhaps one of the things I love about this group is the things we share in common and the things that make us different! I went to the wild and wacky John Adams High School (class of 1975). The school started by a bunch of Harvard PhDs who thought 14 through 18 year olds could really thrive in a totally unstructured environment. Well, *some* of us thrived (I adored it and did really well) but some sort of fell off the educational map. Still, we all probably got a better education than the average teen in the average Portland, Oregon public high school today

If you want to discuss neighborhoods in which we grew up, send me an e-mail. I'm guessing we lived fairly close to one another!

As for seasons, give me SUMMER every time! Warm weather and long, long days

-- hours and hours of sunshine -- my Nirvana :-)

Billi (in still chilly and now cloudy Portland, Oregon)

Reply to
Billi

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:38:54 -0800, simpleseven wrote (in article ):

Launie,

Did you survive the big mudslide with no problems? I saw on the news that it was a huge mess all over Hwy 30!

Thank you for the welcome, by the way. I'm not surprised that Oregon has so many wonderful quilters -- what else do we do on the long, damp days? ;-)

Billi (in chilly, dry & now windless Portland, Oregon)

P.S. For Oregon quilters, do you all hit the 40% off sales at Fabric Depot? Maybe we can do a "group buy" one of these days :-)

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Billi

Yep, the mudslides happened on the other side of Clatskanie, heading towards Astoria. I live about six miles out of town, heading towards Portland. I am just thankful nobody got hurt!

Ya know, I've never been to Fabric Depot. One of these days!

Launie, in Oregon

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simpleseven

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