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Getting to know … JENNY EDLIN

Tell us about where you live. I live just out of Cairns in Far North Queensland at Holloways Beach. My husband and I have been here for 25 years after moving across the ditch from New Zealand. We love the warm balmy tropical days and nights, tropical palms and plants, and walking around the corner to a palm-fringed beach.

Initially I sewed on the dining room table, cut out and stored my fabric in the laundry, and I probably had fabric stashed in every room of the house. I now

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