No way I would have said I'd ever have a blog. I'm a self-described techno-weenie who can't even text message. That being said, there are a lot of quilters out there and this seems to be a good way to connect. No doubt I'll make a lot of mistakes and someone will take me to task for that but that's okay. Constructive criticism is, after all, how you learn.

I'll start with the fact that I love to do hand applique. Let me say it again...I love to hand applique. I'll even shout it...I LOVE TO HAND APPLIQUE. Boy, that felt good. Although I made my first quilt when I was in nursing school (very early 70's), I have been quilting seriously since the early 80's. At first I only pieced. In fact, I could relate very well to the term
"ack-li-que". Then, a few years ago, my best friend taught a series of classes on applique. I thought that, as a good friend, the least I could do was attend, you know, to support her efforts. Well, as they say, the rest is history and I am now a serious applique addict. How serious? I figure in order to finish all the projects I presently have patterns for I will have to live to be about 200 years old. That's if I don't do any piecing, have a long-armer do my quilting, and don't buy any of the new patterns that are bound to be published. Yeah, right.

Another of my passions is reading. Nothing serious like Kafka or Camus. My tastes run to Janet Evanovich, Tamara Myers, and Kathy Reichs. I call it M&M reading. Plain and simple, nothing complicated, not even any nuts please. After all, I have to save my best neurons for calculating half square triangles and bias binding.

I love to tell stories and I have some doozies. People tell me I am funny...as in funny ha ha. I am not really in the best position to have an opinion on that. I do enjoy a good laugh and I very much think we sometimes take ourselves too seriously. My plan is to tell a few stories here and there so maybe someone who is having a bad day can have a laugh or two. You can be the judge as to my comedic talents.