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> > I'm going to remove that awful picture of me sacked out on the couch, so if you want to laugh at it any more, please do so in the next week or two.
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> Mmmmmm, nice quilt on the back of that couch. Is Mrs. Howard a quilter?
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> koala"ready to trade fat quarters"mom

Well, yes, she is, but that's her mother's quilt. Also her mother's couch and her mother's house. The quilt in the picture is polyester, so it lacks the tradition of "real" quilts. My daughter, my wife and her mother are all avid quilters. They have them on every bed and a few walls. My daughter had a special glass-fronted cabinet built into the entrance hall of her new house, just to show off her quilts. They even use antique china cabinets to display them. Some actually hang on quilt racks. It's a true art form. It also keeps them out of trouble.
Howard