Gretchen

• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Scorpio
• Industry: Architecture
• Location: Metro Atlanta : Georgia : United States

About Me

I'm a 30-something year old living in a historic house with 4 cats in Metro Atlanta. When I am not working at one of my 2 jobs, I quilt, read, think about quilts to make, wish I had more time to cook, watch movies, attempt to knit, and occasionally work in the yard.

Interests

• quilting
• reading
• cooking
• historic places
• hiking
• gardening
• knitting
• collecting vintage stuff
• movies
• comic books

Favorite Movies

• Pulp Fiction
• Usual Suspects
• Princess Bride
• Gladiator
• L.A. Confidential
• Fargo
• Casablanca
• Harry Potter
• Lord of the Rings
• anything by Tim Burton
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Hepburn & Tracy movies
• The Professional
• True Romance
• Master and Commander
• It Happened One Night
• Thin Man series
• anything with Marilyn Monroe

Favorite Music

• Metallica
• Nine Inch Nails
• Smashing Pumpkins
• White Stripes
• Pearl Jam
• Nirvana
• Led Zeppelin
• Dylan
• West Coast Jazz
• Delta Blues
• Late 80s hardcore punk
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Duke Ellington
• Mozart

Favorite Books

• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• The Riverside Shakespeare
• Rising Tide by John Barry
• Edgar Allan Poe's Collected Works
• Anne Rice's vampire series
• AS I Lay Dying by Faulkner
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events
• Mutts comics by Patrick McDonnell
• Issac's Storm by Erik Larson
• An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson
• Twilight by Stephanie Meyers
• Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Stephen King (too many to list!)
• everything by Neil Gaiman
• Clive Barker's Books of Blood
• All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
• Harry Potter series