Comments on: Quilts for Sick Kids http://handmadequilt.org/quilts-for-sick-kids/ We piece together a meaningful life Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Cathie http://handmadequilt.org/quilts-for-sick-kids/#comment-14 Cathie Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:54:00 +0000 http://handmadequilt.org/?p=32#comment-14 Isn't sewers an unfortunate word? Cathie Isn’t sewers an unfortunate word? Cathie

]]> By: Cathie http://handmadequilt.org/quilts-for-sick-kids/#comment-13 Cathie Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:53:14 +0000 http://handmadequilt.org/?p=32#comment-13 Hello Lisa Thanks for your blog. I love to hear about comfort quilts and I hope organising non-sewers to produce a quilt hasn't stunted your quilting career. At school we are encouraged to teach children our passions during Friday afternoon challenges but the thought of twenty grade ones with soggy threads and unthreaded needles just doesn't inspire me to impart any enthusiasm at all. And don't even mention the knots- tightly wet ones! Shameful, I know and so lacking a quilters' generosity. Hope your quilt worked some magic for your sister. I have enjoyed reading your frog pond site. I was at a friend's barbecue a couple of weeks ago and we were sitting out on a deck quite near the neighbours and a sick pool filter noise started and it was very close and quite loud. I commented on how unthoughtful the neighbours were and how surely they could hear the small gathering and turn off the noisy filter just for the night. Then my friend pointed out that the noise was a frog. It continued running its motor the whole evening but once I had processed that it was a natural sound it seemed to fade into the background. Hope you have lovely neighbours. Cheers Cathie Hello Lisa
Thanks for your blog. I love to hear about comfort quilts and I hope organising non-sewers to produce a quilt hasn’t stunted your quilting career. At school we are encouraged to teach children our passions during Friday afternoon challenges but the thought of twenty grade ones with soggy threads and unthreaded needles just doesn’t inspire me to impart any enthusiasm at all. And don’t even mention the knots- tightly wet ones! Shameful, I know and so lacking a quilters’ generosity. Hope your quilt worked some magic for your sister.
I have enjoyed reading your frog pond site. I was at a friend’s barbecue a couple of weeks ago and we were sitting out on a deck quite near the neighbours and a sick pool filter noise started and it was very close and quite loud. I commented on how unthoughtful the neighbours were and how surely they could hear the small gathering and turn off the noisy filter just for the night. Then my friend pointed out that the noise was a frog. It continued running its motor the whole evening but once I had processed that it was a natural sound it seemed to fade into the background. Hope you have lovely neighbours. Cheers Cathie

]]> By: Jane http://handmadequilt.org/quilts-for-sick-kids/#comment-7 Jane Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:51:36 +0000 http://handmadequilt.org/?p=32#comment-7 I agree. All this activity reminds me of Liz Byrski's book, Gang of Four. Have you read it? This is the sort of thing that seems to be uniquely female - something we're really good at. Imagine getting women all over the world to make quilts in support of those going through tough times - a great antidote to war-mongering. Keep blogging and the message will spread. I agree. All this activity reminds me of Liz Byrski’s book, Gang of Four. Have you read it? This is the sort of thing that seems to be uniquely female – something we’re really good at. Imagine getting women all over the world to make quilts in support of those going through tough times – a great antidote to war-mongering. Keep blogging and the message will spread.

]]> By: Lisa http://handmadequilt.org/quilts-for-sick-kids/#comment-6 Lisa Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:12:36 +0000 http://handmadequilt.org/?p=32#comment-6 What a lovely idea, creating fun, interest to your group and a lovely gift for sick kids. I co-ordinated a community quilt for my sister when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a rewarding exercise, organising a group of mainly non-sewers to produce blocks for a quilt and putting them together to form a unique and colourful quilt to warm my sister through her gruelling chemo. I love your site. Keep blogging, it is truly inspirational. What a lovely idea, creating fun, interest to your group and a lovely gift for sick kids. I co-ordinated a community quilt for my sister when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a rewarding exercise, organising a group of mainly non-sewers to produce blocks for a quilt and putting them together to form a unique and colourful quilt to warm my sister through her gruelling chemo.

I love your site. Keep blogging, it is truly inspirational.

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