Loose Threads

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LOOSE THREADS
Stories to Keep Quilters in Stitches
From the Preface: "I remember the incident very clearly. 1 was hunched over the copy machine in the office supplies store, concentrating, playing with designs for a twelve-inch friendship quilt block. I enlarged shapes, cut them out, and rearranged them. Suddenly, 1 was aware of a hand moving softly across my back. The hand wandered. It stroked; it plucked. 1 spun around to face the woman standing behind me. 'What are you doing?' I asked, bewildered.
She was embarrassed.
'Oh,' she said, 'I was just picking the loose threads off of the back of your shirt.'
Later, thinking about those loose threads, I realized how much a part of me they are. I am a hand-quilter and in the hours I spend at my quilt frame, I work quietly, stitching inch by inch. While I am stitching, my mind looks back over the moments of each day, wandering and wondering. These mental meanderings are my loose threads. Because I am... Tovább

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LOOSE THREADS
Stories to Keep Quilters in Stitches
From the Preface: "I remember the incident very clearly. 1 was hunched over the copy machine in the office supplies store, concentrating, playing with designs for a twelve-inch friendship quilt block. I enlarged shapes, cut them out, and rearranged them. Suddenly, 1 was aware of a hand moving softly across my back. The hand wandered. It stroked; it plucked. 1 spun around to face the woman standing behind me. 'What are you doing?' I asked, bewildered.
She was embarrassed.
'Oh,' she said, 'I was just picking the loose threads off of the back of your shirt.'
Later, thinking about those loose threads, I realized how much a part of me they are. I am a hand-quilter and in the hours I spend at my quilt frame, I work quietly, stitching inch by inch. While I am stitching, my mind looks back over the moments of each day, wandering and wondering. These mental meanderings are my loose threads. Because I am lucky enough to love this quilting that 1 do, these loose threads fill my thoughts with joy and curiosity and laughter. "
In Looje ThreaJj: Storied to Keep Quilterj in Stitched, you are invited to share in this joy and laughter. Read along with Helen and discover why piecing a quilt after midnight is never a good idea, how to know it's time to clean out your fabric stash, why quilting is better than an X-rated movie, and why you'11 never Find a better Friend than a quilter.
About the Author Helen Kelley's "Loose Threads" column has been a favorite of readers of Quitters Newtilctter for twenty-five years. She is the author of E^ery Quilt Telb a Story and Helen Kelleyj Joy of Quilting. Helen's "Renaissance Ouilt" was chosen as one of the 100 Best Quilts of the Twentieth Century, and she is the 2008 inductee into the prestigious Quilters Hall of Fame.
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LOOSE THREADS
Stories to Keep Quilters in Stitches
"Reading Helen Kelley is like having coffee with a good friend. In sharing details from her quilting life, she touches us with insights that are both personal and universal, simple and monumental." —Jean Ray Liuin/, internatuinaLLy known cjuiltmaker, Ln^itriictor, and author
"Helen's infectious enthusiasm for laughter and lifelong learning is sweetly wrapped in entertaining vignettes of the quilting life that all quilters will find comfortably familiar." —Jan Maqee, Kxecutive Editor, Quilters Newsletter
"Quilter Helen Kelley shares insights into her creative process — stitching her love of quilting to the very fabric of daily life. At times funny, poignant, inspirational, but always delightful!" —LL)a Iverdon, Executive Director, Quilters Hall of Fame
With signature wit and wisdom, Helen Kelley weaves the "loose threads" of life into charming stories that every quilter can appreciate. Her warm humor and irrepressible spirit are sure to make you smile, as you recognize yourself in tales of family, friendship, and a passion for quilts.
Helen Kelley is a celebrated quiltmaker, Instructor, lecturer, and author. For twenty-five years, this Erma Bombeck of the quilting world has parlayed her passion for all things quilt into her enormously popular "Loose Threads" column in Quiltem Newsletter. A master quilter, Helen's "Renaissance Quilt" was chosen as one of the 100 Best Quilts of the Twentieth Centuiy, and she is the 2008 inductee into the prestigious Quilters Hall of Fame.
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