"Back in my day"... girls were encouraged to learn to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, and cross-stitch. A few of us also learned how to quilt and tat. These crafts were firmly in the women's domain.
In the 1990's, I discovered a local fabric shop that used filePro (Ken and I were programmers for the filePro company) to run everything. They offered quilting classes. We took a couple. Ken made a red, white and blue Lone Star wall hanging.
In 2014, Ken visited his old boss, Bill Prady, on the set of The Big Bang Theory. (I stayed home with the kids). At the end of the day, we had a Skype session with most of the cast. Johnny Galecki noticed the wall hanging behind me, admired it and asked me if I made it. I proudly told him that the tall, goofy guy standing next to him made it. Not a bad response for his first quilting project.
Ken still gets the side-eyed look from the blue haired ladies at fabric stores since he is shopping for HIS project and not following me around holding my purse while looking bored out of his mind.
It has been 20 years since I got any disrespect as a female computer programmer/repair gal, so I guess females can know a thing or two about computers.
On the other hand, my sister, Liz, was severely disrespected by a lawyer during a deposition 2 years ago. He was unable to accept that she owned a heating/air conditioning business, PLUS, she was the head technician. Most of the time, the general public does not care a fig who fixes their central air conditioner unit when it is 95+ degrees out. The repair person could show up in a tutu, crop top and a football helmet. As long as he/she/it makes the cold air appear, all is good in the world. When I helped her swap out a dead hot water heater last December, the homeowner did not say a peep about 2 "older" women (63 and 56 but both built like linebackers) hauling the equipment in and out. He shut up and helpfully held the doors open and kept all comments to himself. He had hot water a few hours later.
Once you started there could be no end..
I think it’s the way of everything!
I liked it
glad you do!
This is a book. I love crafts, an artform of their own, so imagine a book with illustrations from just portions of what you dipped into! Gorgeous.
thank you so much. this one has resonated with many readers. (mostly women, I must say...)
"Back in my day"... girls were encouraged to learn to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, and cross-stitch. A few of us also learned how to quilt and tat. These crafts were firmly in the women's domain.
In the 1990's, I discovered a local fabric shop that used filePro (Ken and I were programmers for the filePro company) to run everything. They offered quilting classes. We took a couple. Ken made a red, white and blue Lone Star wall hanging.
In 2014, Ken visited his old boss, Bill Prady, on the set of The Big Bang Theory. (I stayed home with the kids). At the end of the day, we had a Skype session with most of the cast. Johnny Galecki noticed the wall hanging behind me, admired it and asked me if I made it. I proudly told him that the tall, goofy guy standing next to him made it. Not a bad response for his first quilting project.
'the times, they are a'changin'...'
They are, but we aren't there yet.
Ken still gets the side-eyed look from the blue haired ladies at fabric stores since he is shopping for HIS project and not following me around holding my purse while looking bored out of his mind.
It has been 20 years since I got any disrespect as a female computer programmer/repair gal, so I guess females can know a thing or two about computers.
On the other hand, my sister, Liz, was severely disrespected by a lawyer during a deposition 2 years ago. He was unable to accept that she owned a heating/air conditioning business, PLUS, she was the head technician. Most of the time, the general public does not care a fig who fixes their central air conditioner unit when it is 95+ degrees out. The repair person could show up in a tutu, crop top and a football helmet. As long as he/she/it makes the cold air appear, all is good in the world. When I helped her swap out a dead hot water heater last December, the homeowner did not say a peep about 2 "older" women (63 and 56 but both built like linebackers) hauling the equipment in and out. He shut up and helpfully held the doors open and kept all comments to himself. He had hot water a few hours later.
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