One stitch leads to another…

Today you're going to sit down in your very own quilting wagon and go to Memory Lane where your quilting life is on display. You're at the beginner's stop. There, in the far corner, behind the quilting wagon you're sitting in, are your very first quilts, somewhat crooked and bent and with colours you certainly never would have used at present. But they are touching; fond memories of those new friendships that came to be during evenings at work in your local quilting bee.

Now you're heading further and arrive at the patchwork you made a few years ago; can you remember everything you have given away to family and friends, and the quilts you sent to a worthy cause too? You go further again through new landscapes. And look! There are the memories of your quilting trips to the US and the trips here in the Nordic countries. You've been around. 

You've seen so much outside the workshop rooms. And now, here are glimpses of all the art exhibitions you have enjoyed simply because you were on a quilting trip anyway. You say you can hear laughter and fun? That's just the Show and Tell after a shopping raid with the Visa card and your quilting friends.

You turn the next corner and suddenly there it is; the first quilts you designed without anybody else's pattern or help. Can you remember those late nights when you understood that you really could create? Can you see the scetches to the first patchwork in your own design? You were so proud, and rightly so! It was exactly this quilt that made you interested in quiltdesign on computer and later set speed to your computerskills at home. Now we arrive at the paint and brushes you keep. Do you recall? Oh yes, you found that old hobby of yours again, only because you were busy being creative on a wider scale. Quickly the wagon continues, it's easy to drive; Look at your latest quilts, the matching colours and the pointed patch-corners. Surely you can see that you have improved your technique and that you know a lot more about colours and their influence on eachother than before.

In the backseat of your quilting wagon you'll find all the knowledge and adventures you have gained through this absorbing hobby of yours. On the top there is an album of photos, showing the faces of your quilting friends. You know more about Amish than before, geometry is a lot easier now than in the old days at school, and Internet is your friend when the sewing machine is resting.

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