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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Party Tree
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funny people that share stories of their past and you laugh so deep and hearty that your sides ache.
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Party Tree
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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I would assign patchwork and quilts to the Shire. With the Hobbits' love of bright colours and comfortable things, I can well imagine them sewing leftover bits of their clothing fabrics into cheerful patterns for blankets and other things. There would be cotton calicos for the summer, cozy wools for the winter, and the scraps of velvet (from the rich Hobbits' clothes) would be made into decorative crazy quilts, like those in Victorian days.
Quilting bees are a sociable activity I could easily imagine taking place in the Shire. At first thought, one might wonder if they'd have time to sew, what with meal preparation taking up so much of their day, but since the families were large, I'm sure some of them were able to pursue other handcrafts. I can see the Hobbit women and girls sitting around a quilting frame, gossiping about Bilbo's quirks or whether Rosie wasn't going to look for another fellow soon, now that that Samwise chap had disappeared so long - and the fact that the armour Merry and Pippin wore must be horribly uncomfortable and heavy... I'm sure Tolkien would have approved, as he was all for handcrafts instead of industrial production!
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME)
Posts: 612
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This message should be sent to the Shire. My granparents are becoming hooked on LOTR!!!!!
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