editor's letter
Are you a collector?
I bet you are! If you are a quilter or a sewer,
then there’s no doubt whatsoever.
Collectors always have a thousand and one
stories, and a great sense of wonder for the
things they collect. Their eyes bright with
delight as they dive in their precious items to
engage you in their stories and perhaps, with a
little madness, hope you’ll get the bug as well.
As quilters and sewers we’re fortunate to have
several collections going on at once, spools
of thread and gorgeous fabric that then turns
into scraps of which we can’t let go. And let’s
not talk about the collection of UFOs! I like
to keep fabric in a bookcase so I can see my
favorite prints and colors whenever I walk in
the room, right beside the other collection…
quilting books. Another collection, right beside
the books, is that of yarns, as I’m also a knitter.
When guests walk into the room and see my
leftover yarns in a huge fancy glass container,
the questions start to flow.
These collections become our universe.
And then, there’s the topic of sewing machines,
and the possibility of having more than one. I
still have my mother’s 1959 Viking Husqvarna
Automatic CI-21A sewing machine. A collectable machine coveted by those who own one.
It’s actually hidden away, like someone’s going
to run away with it! For those of you who might
not know, it’s a very heavy machine. It’s my
pride and joy not because I’m comparing it to
the Husqvarna Viking sewing machines available today, but because it holds fond memories
of my childhood spent at the kitchen table with
mom sewing, including the many times I used
the machine as a teenager to alter clothing!
Speaking of sewing machines, the Pfaff Creative 1.5 makes me think of a little red Fiat 500,
I’m not sure why, it just does! Vroom, vroom…
If you’ve been following QUILTsocial blog
particularly this summer you’ll remember that
Elaine Theriault posted 50 ways to keep a
quilter happy while on vacation and dropped in
on the local quilt shops along her travels. It’s
interesting to see the variety of quilting fabric
she photographed within the shops. Fabric in
a shop is often a reflection of the town it’s in.
When Elaine visited the local shop in Prince
Edward Island there were fabrics that reflected
the sea and the sunsets there. What a perfect
souvenir to get while on vacation! It will always
be a sweet reminder of the trip.
I hope you enjoy collecting the quilting/sewing
topics in every one of our QUILTsocial issues.
Enjoy the issue, and then go quilt something.
Cheerfully,
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