all right
uh what kind of hobbies are you into
well i'm quilting and uh pressing fact i was pressing a
the uh pieces for a quilt block i will stop start stitching on when the phone rang
okay
so where uh what are you into woodwork
uh no uh tole painting and uh
oh
folk art
yeah i saw something uh you've seen these old wooden school desks the old ones
uh
um-hum
i saw some uh
or one anyway in a shop here
oh i don't even remember where i was
two or three weeks ago that had been uh
painted with that looked like maybe just a flat finish and then tole painting on it and the uh
flowers and borders and trims and stuff and it was just real pretty
yeah
yeah we we used to live in Hillsboro and i there's a
a lady that i knew that had a uh gift shop and she gave art lessons and i've taken lessons there and got into it and
tried a little bit of landscaping so
painting is pretty interesting
um-hum
how long you been quilting quite a while or
no not uh not a real long time since about um
i guess it was in probably nineteen eighty eight when i got into it
and i belong to a quilt guild in in McKinney we just meet once a month but
uh we've had a project going this last almost a year now where we uh when i joined the quilt guild there was just
i made the
i think the thirteenth member and we just wrote down the names of the
months and then we all drew for uh
a month
and everyone in the guild makes a block
for the the person who's turn it is that month and we have the uh
privilege of selecting a pattern or
of colors or providing the material and the pattern
or some of them just say
uh for instance the December is what they call a Christmas sampler
and she gave us one piece of uh fabric to use in it and then we have to come up with something else to go with it
and when they're all put together needless to say they've got enough for a block and our guild has grown now to where we have twenty members
um
and so uh February is when i get the blocks
and my husband has picked the
the pattern that he wants and the colors so
it'll be it'll be interesting
yeah it sounds like it i've seen some beautiful quilts around i i've got some that my mother made and i still have
oh goodness those are those are really
family heirlooms and
yeah i've got one that uh she made when i was a kid with the you know Raggedy Ann and Andy patterns on it
uh-huh
and it's some of the stitches you know have come loose on it but
you know i still keep it though
right
do you work for Texas Instruments
uh no i i work for JC Penney's uh
the guy that i'm in a a scout troop at Saint Rita's church by uh 635 and the tollway
uh-huh
and uh
John Godfrey that that TI who's doing this his son's in our scout troop
and he contacted us and he he suggested that all the adult members do this and turn the money in
that they collected for the phone calls to the troop so we you know pick up a little extra funds that way
oh well that's good
it really is that's a
a good fund raiser
yeah it's you know easy way to pick up maybe a thousand dollars and get enough adults
involved
um-hum
yeah it has been pretty quiet on the switchboard lately uh for a while i was getting calls pretty often
and then they when the switchboard went down for a while and then after it started up again well we haven't uh it hasn't been real
active i was a little bit surprised when i uh picked up the phone tonight and got the recording you know that it was
yeah
was back on and i have lost the number in fact maybe you could give it to me that you call in uh to make to make a call
okay
okay you got a
and uh just a let's see if i
get over here where i can get to a
pen
um
i may get an incoming call anytime but uh my husband
