[speaker001:] all right uh what kind of hobbies are you into
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] so where uh what are you into woodwork
[speaker001:] uh no uh tole painting and uh
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] folk art
[speaker002:] yeah I saw something uh you've seen these old wooden school desks the old ones
[speaker001:] uh um-hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] how long you been quilting quite a while or
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh goodness those are those are really family heirlooms and
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it's some of the stitches you know have come loose on it but you know I still keep it though
[speaker002:] right  do you work for Texas Instruments
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh well that's good it really is that's a a good fund raiser
[speaker001:] yeah it's you know easy way to pick up maybe a thousand dollars and get enough adults involved
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] okay okay you got a
[speaker002:] 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