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Hi! My name is Alia Ghulam and I hail from Bogota', Colombia, South America and moved as a baby to St. Louis, Missouri, USA. My older sister had Polio and we went for medical reasons and it took years to treat her so….we stayed! Little did I know that my heart would intertwine with an Omani's and here I am 12 years later, two kids later and five cats later! I first fell in love with quilts; not quilting per se; when I announced to my high school girlfriend of my marriage. She flew up from Florida to St. Louis and we met at her mom's house. They took out all their quilts and showed me and I actually looked at the quilts. I was inspired from then on and many years later was able to take a beginner's hand quilting course from Holly Allen. Holly was a wonderful teacher and she is now back in South Africa and teaching there. We did a 12 block (some made more) sampler. I made it for my husband and he chose the colors. I matched them up as best I could from what was available here at the time. I won 1st place at the 2004 Muscat Quilt Guild Quilt Exhibition for the Beginner Quilt category. Since then, I have taken whatever classes I can and am trying to keep up with finishing them and increasing my skill levels. Last year some of the ladies learned how to appliqué hearts at a guild meeting and donated those hearts to be put into a quilt for the Project Linus project. I managed to get five home to the St. Louis Shriner's Hospital which was where my sister spent many years. It was really cool to take my kids there to see where their 'Tia' (spanish for Aunt) spent so much of her youth and for me to see the place again, this time through the eyes of an adult. The hospital was very surprised and very happy to receive these quilts and I hope to get more to take back to them in the summer of 2008 when I next go home. I love color. I have had a fascination with pink and orange for over a year now. I am working with Fall colors on an Advance Sampler project and also with a purple and mint combination on a Stack n Whack project. I can't resign myself to one family of color and that is the fun of it too. It is so much fun and so inspirational to see how women put together colors and patterns into quilts at the weekly Monday Quilt Group and the monthly show and tell at the general guild meeting. I just love it. It has been such a pleasure meeting so many different women from all over the world and continuing to meet them through the Middle East Quilter's website and also the Gateway Quilters website.
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