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20th January 2002 10th February 2002 3rd March 2002 24th March 2002 14th April 2002 5th May 2002 26th May 2002 16th June 2002 7th July 2002 28th July 2002 8th August 2002 8th September 2002 29th September 2002 20th October 2002 10th November 2002 1st December 2002 12th January 2003 2nd February 2003 23rd February 2003 | Mary C Mary asked for a block on the theme "Water water" - whether blocks whose names have a watery reference of "watery" colours, or subject matter. Colours might include blue, turquoise, etc. About herself, Mary says: I'm a post war baby boomer. I've lived in my present house in Canterbury for 25+ years but have passed through many places on the way from my native Lancashire via Durham University with spells in Hereford, Turkey [Ankara and Istanbul] pre-package tour era, Morocco and latterly Malaysia. I've never really had a career but a series of jobs starting off in teaching but swapping to librarianship halfway through. I really enjoyed working in various public libraries but am now in my part-time retirement post in a prison library which is an interesting environment to say the least! Although I married straight after finals we didn't start our family till 10 years later when we returned from our travels to the UK but I've still managed to fit in a delightful grandson who is growing up with lots of quilts around. I was very bookish as a child and people who knew me then would be very surprised to see what a major part the work of my hands has come to play in my life. I did Latin as the headmistress said "We can't possibly let Mary loose round the school with a pair of scissors." I began with not very successful attempts at dressmaking via machine knitting (and still have 4 machines under the bed) before arriving at quiltmaking. I slept under a hexagon coverlet as a child... |