OMG! Pati, I also won The Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow award in my
senior year! That was 1968 in Flagstaff..... Did you turn out to be a
great homemaker? If you saw my house right now you'd know that *I*
certainly didn't! LOL

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

"Pati C." wrote in message
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Guess it about my turn.G
I'm Pati, in Phoenix,AZ. Married to DH Rick for 27 years, second marriage
for both of us. No kids. Several feline QIs, Cloud is the oldest, female
dark tiger. Silver, another female (silver/grey tiger/tabby) who moved in.
She actually "belongs" to the people across the street, but has decided
that she lives here and I am her person. She is soon to visit the vet to
be "copy protected". Two of her kittens have stayed with us, Scamper
(male, looks like his mother) who lost the tip of his tail when he was a
baby and his sister, Scurry (a dark ticked tabby)who will always be a
small cat. Then there is Groucho, the tuxedo cat, with a black mustache
and "goatee". He also just moved in. (I am allergic to cats, we weren't
going to have any more but they came and DH is a softy that evidently
cannot exist without cats around. sigh)

Born in Tucson,AZ. Lived in California for a few years as a child (except
for summers back in Tucson or traveling. Parents were both teachers.)
Lived in Cottonwood,AZ for 2 years before we moved back to Tucson in time
for me to start junior high.
I started sewing in Junior High. One year of high school Home Ec. and
started making a lot of me own clothes. Actually won the "Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest at my school my senior year. G
Started college as a biology/psychology double major, pre-med student.
Changed to the School of Home Ec. after 2 years. Graduated in Clothing and
Textiles, worked on my Master's then ended up moving to Phoenix after
separating from my husband. Couldn't manage to get to Tucson once a week
to finish my thesis so the Master's is incomplete.

Got my secondary certification in Home Ec, math and science. Did my
student teaching in math, because "there are no jobs in Home Ec." then got
a job teaching Home Ec. in a south Phoenix K-8 school. Did that for about
6 and a half years. Started working at a House of Fabrics and ended up
there full time, as assistant manager. Went through the transition to
Jo-Ann's and that is when I started really quilting. G
I had taken a beginning quilting class, all hand work, cutting templates
out with sandpaper on the back, drawing the lines and so on. But now I
started taking a few machine piecing classes. And got hooked big time.
Now I teach at one of the local quilt shops. And will teach almost
anywhere. VBG Love to teach when people want to learn.
Am trying to start a pattern company, and hope to get DH to get my website
up soon......... sigh.

Love bright colors, and reproduction fabrics and most colors. (Hate pink,
but use it when it is needed.) In general I love fabric. VBG And have
stash to prove it.
Sew on a Husqvarna/Viking #1 most of the time, also have a Viking Rose,
with embroidery module, 2 sergers and a Singer 66 in a table. DH, Rick,
not only supports my habit he has been known to bring me fabric when he
travels.
Oh, Rick is a writer/author. He is good at it, but there are times the
money just doesn't come in and markets dry up. Right now things are going
fairly well, and we hope it continues this way for a few more years until
he can start to collect Social Security. He also does jewelry work and
some woodworking.
We both collect books. (There are probably 20,000 books in the house, even
with Rick culling and getting rid of a lot of them.

This has gotten way too long.... so any questions, please ask.

Pati, in Phx

Sally Swindells wrote:
As Cornwoman wrote 'Now I want to
know more about each of you! Please tell!!

and we seem to have a flurry of new posters, is it time for a general
Roll Call, so that newbies can see who we all are.