I Like Thursday ~ Post #3 ~ Quiltfolk Like Me

This is me.

I saw this Here on Instagram and could not help but smile.

(1) Of course, I like to buy new fabric,

even though I have enough for many quilts stashed away. 

(2) I sew all times of day and night.

My hubby, who could be retired, still works a night shift 

and many times I am sewing in the wee hours of the morning 

by only sewing machine light

to while the time away.

Then many days the kitties and I are up before the sun 

in the sewing room playing quietly with the fabric

while he sleeps. 

(3)  I do always start a new quilt before I finish the one I am working on.

Sometimes it starts as image in my head when I am asleep,

a quilt I must make when I wake. 

These are quilty seeds planted in the dark
that need to be nourished to take root and grow.

If it is fabric I have I pull it out and arrange and study.

Then that may lead to a sewing just one block.
I have many WIPs.

I work on whatever calls to me on any given day or night.
this meets my ...

Goals for 2019
"Live ... Love ... Bake ... and Stitch"

Recipe for my go-to Banana Bread in the link.
I like Banana Bread
Life has given me ripe bananas today so my house is filled
with that lovely warm scent of baking good.

I will be enjoying a slice with a cuppa and reading ...

I found Quiltfolk here two weeks ago @ MIP Handmade

One look at the string tied quilt and I had to read its story.

So now I have a stack of these on my coffee table.

I like that these read as short stories
about real people
in real places
and their quilts.

I know the people are real because Issue 5 was about Eastern Massachusetts
and I have met some of these people.

The Eastern Massachusetts Issue features the local



New England Quilt Museum

and I saw this single issue originally here.
At the time, I somehow did not realize it was a periodical
and that it would lead me to other quilty places.

When I
Subscribed to Quiltfolk Here
I received an email newsletter that I liked so much
I wrote and asked if there was a link to it on their website,
because I wanted to quote it here on my blog.

The editor of the magazine wrote back that their email
had been so well received that they were going to put it on their website.
So here it is ...

"The Quilt You Didn't Make" by Michael McCormick

Mr McCormick writes,

"Embedded within our finished quilts, the ones we take to show and tell, give to family and friends, and enjoy for decades, are our omissions. Our myriad decisions can be felt, even appreciated, if only we take the time to look. And these choices, about what to include or not in a quilt, are in their own way a recorded history of who we were at the time of its making."

Sew my story is all there in my quilts,
and the ones I did not make are
embedded in the ones I did,
and my blog is a personal journal
about my quilts, my life, my times.

If you are reading my blog, 
you are probably a quilter, 
and you probably already knew that.

Now I do, too ... :-) 

This week I discovered  a favorite new quilting ruler to like.

Add A Quarter Ruler from CM Designs

To learn more 



Read My FPP Tutorial Here


I also like visiting and reading about the life and times of the

I Like Thursday Quilters @ Not Afraid of Color

Real stories about real people in real places.

Feels just like home. 

<3 <3 <3