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[ConnieD79]

I just signed up for the MSQC newsletter but am looking for a quilt story from a previous edition. It is about the power of quilting distraction. Does anyone remember reading about this story? Can you post the story here?

Thanks.

[Snip Snip]

Can you be a little more specific? Distraction from illness? Grief? Family issues? There was one just a week or less ago about a gal who has had many surgeries, who has quilted for decades, to distract her from pain. Or is it quilting as a form of meditation?

[Panda]

I think this is the story you are looking for. It was this past Tuesday's newsletter.

The only thing I love more than quilting fabric is quilting stories. Got a good one? Send me yours at stories@missouriquiltco.com. We publish a great quilting story every week in our series Stitched Together - Stories for the Quilter’s Soul.
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When challenges come, which of course they always do, we generally scrape together the strength to make it through. But it seems like some people meet their challenges with a toughness and spunk that makes me wonder where on Earth they got it from. I think some people just came with an extra helping of spirit. That’s what I thought of when I read today’s story, sent in by Rina right here in Missouri!

I was born with a rare birth defect and spent at least two months out of every year from age five to twenty-five in the hospital undergoing surgeries and procedures. Since I couldn't interact with other children for months at a time I taught myself to sew at the age of ten. I loved creating my own clothes as I couldn't purchase off the rack because everything needed to be altered to fit my birth defect.
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When I was seventeen my mother saw a picture of a sampler quilt and asked if I could make one for her. I had never made a quilt but knew I could do it. I hand pieced it and hand quilted it and from that moment on I was hooked. I could take my squares and triangles to the hospital with me and have something to keep me occupied for the long hospitalizations. Not only did the hand piecing and quilting take my mind off the hospital stays, but the nurses and doctors loved watching my quilts come together. As the matter of fact, I was hospitalized last month and took my fabric, cutting mat, rotary cutter, needle and thread with me. I think every nurse came in to see my progress and I meet quite a few who were quilters.
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My birth defect causes constant pain and I soon found out that sewing took my mind off the pain and I didn't have to rely on pain medications so much. I have been quilting for over forty years and spend some time every day at my machine. While I'm quilting I am so engrossed in the planning, cutting, and sewing that most of the time I can ignore the pain and all the complications that accompany my problem. The hum of the machine and the rhythm of the needle going up and down is music to my soul. It's better therapy than any doctor could prescribe. Quilting also leads to new experiences and new friends which in turn brings laughter and wonderful memories into my life.
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I am convinced that quilting is one of the reasons that I am still alive, as I was told that no one with my birth defect survives past eighteen and I'm now sixty-two. I may not be in the best shape, but I get up everyday looking forward to reading quilting blogs, discovering new patterns, making new quilts, going to quilt shops and enjoying the company of other quilters.
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I fully intend to keep quilting for the next thirty or so years and prove the doctors wrong because there are just too many quilts waiting to be made.
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Thanks for sharing, Rina. We at MSQC wish you many more years of quilting and inspiring others!
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[Panda]

Sorry Connie I copied more than needed and now I can't figure how to get rid of the part that has nothing to do with the story.

[ConnieD79]

Thank you - this is it! I need to buy the book!

[Panda]

Thank you - this is it! I need to buy the book!

Your very welcome!