Lynn in Minnesota, Mom and I thank you for the Boston Postcard! Tricia

http://community.webshots.com/photo/477341756yUeOHU Didn't want you to think I'd been goofing off! joan

First the thanks: To Melissa for the monthly appliqué session! (I like the pieced blocks too, but haven't found them too challenging yet!) Appliqué was never my thing, but the discipline of doing some every month has improved my skills quite a bit. To the extent that I Voluntarily added appliqué to...

About 10 days ago I had the pleasure of meeting Rita and her family! She was in this area on vacation, with her DH and her sister. We arranged to meet at the closest LQS. We all arrived at the same time, and quickly introduced ourselves. After careful consideration, Rita and I each managed to find...

and it was a hug block! so one lucky RCTQ member will see the first block from Dr. Quilter in Lynnwood, WA in their hug quilt. barely made the deadline by the way. I have sent at least another one since I moved but it had been premade so I didnt sign it with my new location.. after sofi went to...

DD leaves for her student teaching stint in Scotland today. This group is such a postive force, that I'm asking you all to keep good thoughts for her travel today. Even though I know she's all grown up, I'm still nagging her about not leaving her stuff unattended for even a second, etc, etc,...

Saint Alphonsus Liguori says, "I know I speak differently, but these Points that I bring out at this time, are to encourage more thinking regarding decisions to be made, associations with others, to be for the good of the mentality and, of course, the Soul, but also, for the good of the youngsters...

There are 50 people here from Tennessee, Maryland and Florida repairing the Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church has taken in the St. Peter's Catholic school students and Burlington, Vermont has sent 30,000 pounds of pumpkins, scarecrows and mums for Moss Point high school's fall festival. ...

I've been doing factory work, finally completing a half dozen baby quilts for friends and family. Whew! After that I began a quilt for myself. How strange. In any case, mass producing baby quilts made me a little careless with the new quilt, and I made a few mistakes which required some doctoring...

Donna has good page on hug quilts, including the story and pictures of ruth's hug at: http://members.tripod.com/donnakwilts/Veryspecialquilts.htm rusty (who still wonders what happened to Ruth's little furkid)

I just received this- Gen SINGING IN CHURCH A minister decided to do something a little different one Sunday morning. He said "Today, in church, I am going to say a single word and you are going to help me preach. Whatever single word I say, I want you to sing whatever hymn that comes to your...

Just a heads up on a new thing for freecyclers. http://www.freecycle.org/finder lets you put in a phrase of something you're looking for, and your geographic area. It will search all the local freecycle posts for it, and also let you sign up for email alerts about future posts. NAYY. -- Kathy A....

My girlfriends and I did all sixteen of the shops between Thursday and Saturday. I was going to be extremely good and not spend a lot of money. I even had a list. I went way over my budget, but managed to get everything on my list (and some things that weren't). :-) It's those fat quarters! ...

A report on the "other" quilt show this month :-) On Thursday I took Expressive Free Motion Quilting with Robbie Eklow. Her work is way different from anything I usually do. But it was fun to stretch a little and play with ways of filling in a background without stippling per se. We did have some...

Here's the Car Talk Lame Joke of the Week: Cinderella is now 95 years old. After a fulfilling life with the now-dead prince, she happily sits upon her rocking chair, watching the world go by from her front porch, with a cat named Bob for companionship. One sunny afternoon out of nowhere, the...

I'm cleaning today - well, not really, but wandering aimlessly from room to room thinking about cleaning...I just had a thought: anyone want to trade VCR tapes for fat quarters or scraps? I have donated a lot of videos over the past few years, but still have quite a few left that I'd like to part...

Been asked but I don't know the answer since I don't have either. If you purchase the Dear Jane CD, do you also have to purchase the book? Or is the CD stand alone? And what would you consider a 'good price' ? Thanks. Butterfly

I've finished the two most recent installments. Pictures near the bottom of http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/BOM2005.html Julia in MN -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/

I'm making a fabric bowl, and my first bowl came out great, this one I'm using varigated thread, and it keeps not 'picking up' the stitch, I can't come up with any other way to explain it. It's ruining my bowl, and my patience! Do you have any ideas why this is happening? I've tried on test...

A friend and I went over the week-end to the Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara CA. One category for an award was Best Use of Embellishment, Traditional Diviision. The winner was a machine-appiqued version of a Baltimore album quilt with red and yellow baskets and flowers done...