What a pleasant experience I had this week-end. I worked check-in for our little local quilt show Tues. night and checked in an adorable 8 yr. old She'd done a landscape quilt based on the Accidental Landscapes patterns, but really made it her own. She got first place in the miniature section. I watched her looking at the quilts with her ballot for her favorite. I doubt the judge looked them over more carefully than she did. She really studied them before making her choice. I got to talking with her dad--he said even as an infant she reached for certain fabrics if they were shopping fabric stores. I was telling them about some of the big quilt shows. I told her there were vendors that sold fabric, patterns and supplies. She commented that she'd shop for fabric, "but I think I prefer to design my own patterns"--------She's ONLY 8! She's joined one of the church groups of mostly hand quilters every Tuesday morning, so she can learn to hand quilt! What a future she has, and what an delightful little person to be around.
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Sep 19, 2010
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Special. Precious. Sometimes we get to see the eagles soar. Polly
"Gen" What a pleasant experience I had this week-end. I worked check-in for our
My mother moved to be with my brother and his family in Stirling, Scotland, following a stroke which disabled her. When we cleared her house, I kept her Husqvarna Orchidea as my backup machine. Sadly, she died just over a year ago and with some of my legacy from her I bought a Husqvarna Diamond. My SiL has a Husqvarna Rose which Mum had given her and was fighting off her 8yo daughter who wanted to sew too! With the help of my sewing machine man, the Orchidea was shipped to Stirling and my niece told that Aunty Megwen had sent Grandma's machine for her to borrow. She is thrilled to bits with HER machine and apparently has made a set of clothes for her teddy bear by just sewing bits of fabric together. She has also been making bags and I have just sent her a piece of embroidered denim which she is going to use for a waistcoat. I think that Grandma would have been pleased to see her machine being used by her littlest grand-daughter!
Megwen
Perfect! And she'll have huge fun with the Orchidea's embroidery, if she has the unit. OK, it';'s 'old technology' now (it was brand new when I bought my Lily), but still loads of fun as an intro to the glorious world of machine embroidery.
That sounds like a life-long quilter just starting her amazing voyage!
What a great story. Don't forget her name - we'll probably see it some day connected to "Best of Show" at some of the major events.
What a wonderful story! At 8 years of age, who knows what she'll be able to do later on down the road. It's exciting. Since she's only 8, her name probably shouldn't be announced...but I would think that if she won a contest somewhere and it was on the web, then it would be ok.
I bet you had fun being a part of this great little story and thanks for sharing.
Donna
Pemberton's in Stirling is probably the best sewing machine repair shop in Scotland, I wouldn't trust anyone else with my Elna Air electronic and many years ago he repaird my Frister Rossman cub 3 after a dusty celing fell on it,so good to know the machine is near a good doctor Marion in Nitten
Thanks for that information about Pembertons. I brought the Rose back to Bath for repair earlier this year as my SiL had a problem with it that hadn't been fixed properly by the repair people she took it to. I'm part of the furniture in the shop in Bath so Mark fixed the machine for me and then shipped it back to Stirling.
Megwen
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