The photo that launched an obsession
The story of how I started crazy quilting. 6-22-14 despite the date reading 2015. Duh we're not there yet!
The journaling reads, "One look at this photo of a wreath by Judith Baker Montano and I knew this was something I had to do. I checked a book out of the library and taught myself embroidery stitches. A short while later we finally got internet service and I was off. I started a group for crazyquilts, learned to make a web page called Crazy Quilt Central, hosted block swaps, embellishment swaps and in general had a lot of fun with the hobby. Mom and I had a great day making CQ wreaths. I used bits and pieces from many of my loved ones. I collected crazy quilt books and pictures of them from magazines. I made hearts, a tea cozy and many blocks that I traded off. Two vests and one that made the rounds of a Round Robin. And then one day I saw an altered dictionary by Melissa McCobb Hubbell and I was off in another direction entirely, buying paints and pens and stamps and ink. I'm still crazyquilter online. 6-22-15." Actually the year was 2014.
The web page I mentioned was on the old Geocities site. I did it all in html by trial and error (and copying things from other sites), no wisiwig editors back then. When geocities was taken down I thought I had lost the website. A few years later I learned that many of the sites, including mine, were backed up on oocities. Here is the url: www.oocities.org/soho/lofts/6531/
Most of the interior links, including my gallery, still work, but a lot of the exterior links don't.
The photo that launched an obsession
The story of how I started crazy quilting. 6-22-14 despite the date reading 2015. Duh we're not there yet!
The journaling reads, "One look at this photo of a wreath by Judith Baker Montano and I knew this was something I had to do. I checked a book out of the library and taught myself embroidery stitches. A short while later we finally got internet service and I was off. I started a group for crazyquilts, learned to make a web page called Crazy Quilt Central, hosted block swaps, embellishment swaps and in general had a lot of fun with the hobby. Mom and I had a great day making CQ wreaths. I used bits and pieces from many of my loved ones. I collected crazy quilt books and pictures of them from magazines. I made hearts, a tea cozy and many blocks that I traded off. Two vests and one that made the rounds of a Round Robin. And then one day I saw an altered dictionary by Melissa McCobb Hubbell and I was off in another direction entirely, buying paints and pens and stamps and ink. I'm still crazyquilter online. 6-22-15." Actually the year was 2014.
The web page I mentioned was on the old Geocities site. I did it all in html by trial and error (and copying things from other sites), no wisiwig editors back then. When geocities was taken down I thought I had lost the website. A few years later I learned that many of the sites, including mine, were backed up on oocities. Here is the url: www.oocities.org/soho/lofts/6531/
Most of the interior links, including my gallery, still work, but a lot of the exterior links don't.