Hi everybody! I put a lazy Saturday afternoon to good use and finished the two blocks for December. What fun they were to make. I even managed the Y seams. I had a bit of trouble choosing the fabric for my sheep and ended up making it orange. The way I placed it on the base fabric it looks as...

We had a snow day today, which was very surprising, since we really didn't have snow. But, I guess they had to make the call by 4 am and then it was snowing hard and they were predicting snow and sleet and ice. Well, my principal asked me to recreate a project I did last year and she lost. I had...

When you agree to trade one squishie for another, don't you expect to get one back? That's what I was expecting and, WOW!!!! I got two. Count them, TWO!!! Beautiful, gorgeous - one is a tone on tone blue and the other is an Oriental design in blue with light golden tan dragons. She knows who...

Just testing as to how my name is showing for directory purposes. Tamara

Think I am now caught up on my obligations that were set aside temporarily during the craziness of the past weeks. So that being said, my Secret New Sew Swap Pal, yours is on its way!! Woohoo!!!! Melissa in NJ

It is getting close to when the final block is released and construction time begins. Before I pass the torch on to next year's BOM keeper, I wanted to add a little extra special surprise to inspire us all to finish our BOM quilts (or at LEAST the tops). When I have the pics gallery up and running...

A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards. She says to the clerk, "May I have 50 Christmas stamps?" The clerk says, "What denomination?" The woman says, "God help us. Has it come to this? Give me 6 Catholic, 12 Presbyterian, 10 Lutheran and 22 Baptists."

I rescued another quilt. I told you guys the previous owner of the house we bought left two quilts they had been using for padding the truck. One is really old and too tattered for me to try to do anything about it - at least yet, but the other one was in pretty good shape except for a large hole...

5 done for neighbor and now to my own sewing. You can see some in my Snigs webshots album. -- http://community.webshots.com/user/snigdibbly SNIGDIBBLY ~e~ " / \ http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/snigdibbly.

Cardiff Zoo had acquired a female of a very rare species of gorilla. Within a few weeks, the gorilla became very cantankerous and difficult to handle. Upon examination, the zoo vet determined the problem was the gorilla was on heat. To make matters worse, there were no male gorillas of the species...

I am looking for really nice bolo ties. I want to suprise my Dad in Bridgeport, Connecticut this Christmas. Most of the ones I see are pretty cheesy. I am looking for something classy. Any recommends? Thanks!

Alice, I sent you a private message, wanted to make sure I let you know here, in case you don't know the screen name....email me if there are troubles with directory form and such. You'll have to respond to private email....bunged address used for NGs)

The Squishie Fairy is a bit like Santa's Elves this year I think! She visited my house this morning and dropped off some gorgeously wonderful zoom-zoom-zoom car fabric. Thank you so much, you know who you are!! -- Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down...

Thanks to everyone for the BD wishes. It was a nice day. A couple of new quilting books were part of the day. DH bought me some fun magnets to make quilt blocks on my car: http://www.fabri-kate-tions.com/magnets.html Yesterday I went to my guild Christmas mtg/luncheon and had a fun time. I am...

I didn't receive my November/December issue of Fons and Porter in the mail. The mailing label says my subscription is paid up until January 2007. I was getting worried. The local shop only had two copies left. I tried calling the number on the website for magazine customer support. Ring, ring,...

did the post for Dec's BOM never made it too my inbox, and I have just lost it, or did it get lost before I got it download? hmmm sometimes this net thing is such a pain.. I did a search and cannot find this months :( would anyone please copy and paste it for me? NOT that I don't have anything on...

Morag in Oxford wrote: We heard not so long ago that friends of ours who live in Switzerland have had a baby girl. Of course my first thought was that she absolutely needed a quilt. Finished it last night and took some pics this morning, ably assisted by my Quilt Model son Rory, who...

I am making a two sided fleece quilt for my DH's 5 year old nephew as a quickie Christmas gift. On one of my business jaunts, I found wonderful Yankee baseball fleece and he is absolutely ga-ga over them. I bought that for the front and navy fleece for the back. I was going to do a...

Ok, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, how do you KNOW the top tension is too high? I just stick the foot on and go! (but then again I have a 20yr old Singer portable...) L "Martha" wrote in message ... ...

There is something wrong in Sasha's fur. First there was something of a matted patch on one hip, near her tail. So I brushed her until it was smoothed out, and felt bad because I thought it meant I wasn't brushing her often enough. It sure was matted. Then there was another patch on the other...