Question and Answer with Meg Hawkey
FreeQuiltPatterns:
What got you started quilting?
Meg:
I’ve been sewing, knitting, crocheting and embroidering for as far back as I can remember. When I was a child, I started to make doll quilts. I made my first bed quilt when I was 16 (the fabric was the birthday present I’d BEGGED for)! After that, as with any other quilter out there, I was hooked!
FreeQuiltPatterns:
What is your favorite pattern that you have designed?
Meg:
Ooooooh... that’s like asking me what my favorite color is! Merry Little Christmas!......no.......Vintage Trick or Treat!..........no..........Snow Days!........no.............Fondest Regards!....no.....I like too many things best. Depends on the time of year, week, day....
FreeQuiltPatterns:
What do you enjoy doing when you aren’t quilting?
Meg:
I like to make things pretty. That can be actually “making things” or gardening, or home decor, or cooking....or searching for vintage stuff !
FreeQuiltPatterns:
What is your favorite quilt related memory?
Meg:
Years ago, when I worked at a quilt shop, I decided to take a mystery quilt class on the spur of the moment. Someone I worked with helped me out by cutting my fabrics for me (batiks...beautiful!) and cut most of the strips the wrong widths. I sat through the class - stretching the fabric to zip it through the machine without a care in the world because in my mind it was already ruined & what did it matter? I was just there to have fun anyway! I learned a huge lesson... the quilt turned out just fine...none of the points were absolutely perfect but it all “quilted out”. I still have that quilt & love it & use it! It’s very freeing to know that you don’t have to produce perfection.
FreeQuiltPatterns:
Tell us a little about your family.
Meg:
I’ve been married for...let’s see...32 years? (YIKES) to my husband who is still nice enough to go along with all of my projects and adventures without complaining TOO much. We have a grown son who has just turned 31...which really hurts my feelings because that means I’m old! Both my husband and my son have refused to learn to embroider...go figure!
FreeQuiltPatterns:
What other interesting things do you have going on right now?
Meg:
We’re going to start having seasonal Stitchery Sojourn Retreats in the studio starting this fall. Our retreat in October is already full...YAY!