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Reetzbobeetz wrote:
Limbania I want to thank you for posting the link to Geta Grama's blog and her amazing hexagon quilt. As I was looking through her blog I noticed that she is from Brasov in Romania. Let me tell you a little story..... DH and I have worked in Romania a few times in the past few years - particularly in Sibiu which is not very far from Brasov. We were working with two Romanian choirs one of which was an all male trainee priests choir. The leader of the choir is a priest who lives and works in Brasov - Fr. Dobre. He and his wife (Roxana) set up a school for orphaned and impoverished children in Brasov and my DH and I have contributed in a small way to the restoration of the building that houses the children and provides a lunch for them each day. I had suggested to Roxana that my quilting group could make quilts for the children if that was of interest. But Roxana came back with a better idea - how about I teach the children how to make quilts for themselves. I thought this was a great idea and we talked about how we could do this with me in Ireland and her in the middle of Romania. We discussed the idea of me doing youtube tutorials but I was not convinced that this would be enough to teach the children. So I ground to a halt because I didn't have the time to go to Brasov to teach the children. When I saw this link Limbania I emailed Geta to see if there would be any way that she would be willing to give a little time to show the children how to make a quilt if I supply all the materials. I got an email from her this morning to say that she would be interested and she will get in touch with Roxana to see what they can do together. Geta is busy until September but maybe they will be able to do something after then. Could the children have a better teacher? I don't think so. So, hopefully a small group of disadvantaged children in Transylvania will learn to quilt because of a connection made from Arizona to Ireland and then Romania. Isn't this forum just wonderful!  What a great story Rita! Thank you for sharing. I'm so happy that you found a possible way to continue with this marvelous project. You are a very generous lady and I'll be honored to help in any way to make it happen. Please keep us posted and let me know how can I contribute. I definitely agree with you, this kids will have a wonderful teacher! Sorry it took me this long to respond. Dealing with "chemo issues" and another cold last weekend, courtesy of my DS. No matter how hard we tried not to get the bug I ended up with it. Doing better now, which is good since DH had to go back to work a day early and I'm working on gettin ready for chemo # 4. Thank God I have an awesome DMIL. She's coming back from Alaska to help out during next treatment. |
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Thanks, Margo. Interesting. Just ordering some of the spiral eye needles to try although the web site says that they do not recommend the quilting needles for those that use the rocking motion which is how I hand-quilt. Will give them a try anyway since eyes are aging faster than the rest of me
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Hello Jane, we've been talking about spiral eye needles, don't know where, could actually have been on another topic. The problem for us Europeans is that added on to the already expensive needle, shipping and in most cases extra customs handling charges make them extremely expensive for us. I'm therefore brining a supply back with me for myself and my European TQS sisters, when I visit my parents in Canada in may/June... The advantage with needles is that though rather pricey, they are virtually weightless and take practically no suitcase space
 what I need is a Mary Poppings carpet bag, anyone know where to find one? |
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Gracious !! I feel almost guilty...with my sunny day
 It's 45 degrees and windy !So not as nice as it might be.... |
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Reetzbobeetz wrote:
Well I don't know if it is headed your way Wendy but we have had torrential rain for the past two days.  All through that terrible snow that you have had there in the UK we had glorious sunshine - but freezing cold. I guess that was our summer.   Same as us Rita but rain forecast for tomorrow. When I was in Northern Ireland visiting family my brother came to pick us up at the airport. Driving to our sisters we went through country roads that had walls of snow at least 8 ft high at each side of the road that was frozen solid. Luckily my sister’s place was fine. |
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Well I don't know if it is headed your way Wendy but we have had torrential rain for the past two days.
All through that terrible snow that you have had there in the UK we had glorious sunshine - but freezing cold. I guess that was our summer. |
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Thanks it's an adventure for me. I've not seen the video yet Rita so that's for later when it rains.
We went walking in the Peaks this morning and there are still big snow drifts, wish I had taken my camera to show you. There were bikers on the trails goodness knows how they coped. It was a beautiful morning I feel refreshed. Lotti I think my cat would be impressed by your roomba |
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