OfflineI'm forwarding this message to allourquilts.com as some of you may know Kathy from classes or her books. You might want to visit her website and sign the guestbook....or check out a quilt on eBay.
Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 10:00 PM
http://www.trinityquilts.com/category.php?category_id=688 In case you need to know who Kathy Sandbach is and what book she wrote.. Read below... pat
--- On Mon, 8/17/09, Laurie G. <lgrnt4ft@pacbell.net> wrote:
From: Laurie G. <lgrnt4ft@pacbell.net>
Subject: [CPMQ] Kathy Sandbach
To: CPMQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 2:11 PM
I don't know if any of you have heard what is going on with Kathy but I got this email from my RCTQ newsgroup:
Hello ladies, this is Ken Sandbach, Kathy's son typing. As most of you
know by now my mom has been diagnosed with a nasty type of dementia,
called FrontalTemporal Dementia. If you were around her the last few
years at all, you may have noticed some behavior changes--slight at
first, and then progressing to downright bizarre. It took the kids some
time (unfortunately) , but this last December we finally got the
diagnosis, and began putting all the pieces together. Her symptoms
these days are too numerous for this email, but if you're curious Google
FrontalTemporal Dementia or go to www.mayoclinic. com and search there.
The reason for writing this morning is to let you know after a long
conversation with my sister we have decided to begin selling my mom's
quilting legacy. We are down to about 6 month's money left for Kathy's
care, and have found that Social Security and Medicare just don't cut
it. Assisted living care is running 7k/month, not including her
insurance and mortgage payments (her Oregon house in on the market, but
no one is buying these days).
As a test experiment we have put 3 of her quilts on eBay to test
reception. Their names and descriptions have come from her books,
because we're just not that smart! If this eBay auction proves to be
worthwhile, there are another such 100 quilts that will make their way
to you--her fans.
While this is a tough time, and even tougher decision to make, neither
Kristine or I have the room or energy to store these quilts in the way
they deserve, so we're hoping/praying that the people who love them most
will be willing to adopt them.
Lastly, it has been at least 18 months since Kathy spent any regular
time on her email, so many of these addresses are likely to be bad.
Please, PLEASE forward this letter to your address books/quilt lovers,
and ask they do the same. Kathy has traveled all over the United States
and UK teaching, so I am hoping this letter will make its way around the
entire quilting universe!
Also there is a guestbook at mom's old website www.machinequiltlad y.com.
Please go there and sign the guestbook. It would mean a lot to grasp
just how many people Kathy has touched through quilting.
Thank you for letting my invade you inbox this morning!
Such a loss to the quilting world. Keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.....
Laurie G.
It is so very sad to hear of the way an illness can effect so many people. I wish Kathy and her family all the best in the world. It sounds like they are really having a hard time, with these issues. I have never taken a class from Kathy, but to be a quilt teacher you have to be a great person.
Thanks for posting this.