Hello!
- Hola!
I am
Mari, a Spanish-Venezuelan Quilter, who is also a mother, daughter, sister and
friend as well.
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Old Roman Bridge and Galician Horrio - Ourense. |
I
worked in several organisations, but what I enjoyed the most was working as a
facilitator on Management and team work techniques until January 2009 when I
moved to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
One
day I decided to register on a "decorating boxes" workshop held on my
compound and one thing follows to another and suddenly I was participating in a
beginners Quilting Workshop and I have to say that experience changed my life
in Capital Letters.
I got
hooked on Patchwork and Quilting. I just love to play with fabrics, textures,
colours and threads. I greatly enjoy admiring other’s works, also creating new designs and learn from quilters and artists who inspire me. Sometime along the way, I had the opportunity to teach and share new ideas and
techniques to fellows quilters and that was like living again the great times
when I worked as a facilitator, only that this time much better.
So
many things to try, so many techniques, wonderful tools and gadgets, old and
new books and magazines, patterns, templates, FABRICS...so many new ideas....A lot of
inspiration every time you get in touch with something complex or simple, new
or antique, colourful or monochromatic, local or foreigner... everything could
be a source of inspiration and for sure it becomes.
I
must to confess the best part of the quilting experience is the people I've met
along the 5 years I've been doing it... easy going, honest, generous friends
from everywhere sharing our mutual passion... British and Irish, Aussies,
Kiwis, Latins, Americans, Asians, Arabs, Africans, Romanians, Ukranians, Canadians, Germans - wonderful people from
everywhere.... it has been and still it is like Quilting without frontiers.
I just
moved to Northern Ireland for good and must say that my quilter’s girl friends are
what I'm missing the most...
Thanks for visiting me. It’s
nice to get in touch with you.
Cheers,
Mari.
