I threw a spirit of life party for my beloved DH, Terry yesterday. I've never been to one, and have only attended a few funeral services, so I didn't really know what I was doing or what to expect. All in all I think it was a great success, despite the miserable downpour we were having all day. ...

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I got a snippy email today from an online retailer when I complained about how long it was taking my order to get shipped (I understand USPS/UPS delays - I only hold the etailer responsible for getting the thing out the door and addressed correctly). It has been a full week (I placed the order...

Are you all O.K. over there. I've been up for the last three nights because of the storms. The news is reporting a lot of flooding from Harrison County over to you. Are you high and dry in that swamp or have the gators taken up residence in your abode. The rivers over here have not crested yet...

I sent this last night but I seem to not be getting all messages in or out or something so I will try again. Here is the link to my latest attempts at paper piecing. Please be kind. I know that things are not lined up like they should be on the mask. I am finding that I do better on paper...

I'll be making a quilt for my niece and her husband, and it will have a very dark brown fabric in it. I prewash, and when I prewashed this fabric, I used synthrapol (sp?). I then ran it through another wash with a color catcher, which came out very dark brown. I did that about five more times...

We had hoped for much happier news from Irene. Here's what she wrote: they did find cancer cells in 1 of the 3 lymph nodes that were removed, so will be going in for a 2nd procedure within the week to have more nodes removed for further testing. They did get the entire tumor out so this...

My latest news update: See subject! That is really the only definitive news to report this week. Of course it is very good news for me :-) The decision about next steps is still up in the air. There are a couple of options being discussed. Until last Friday, my local oncologist had not really...

It appears there is an "Epic" storm (according to the Weather Channel) that is blasting across the country. And flooding in the Dakotas. I hope everyone battens down the hatches and does OK though all this......snow, blizzard, tornados, floods.....be safe!!!!! -- Kathyl (KJ) remove "nospam"...

I found some. I think it was Boca Jan, but not sure. Linda PATCHogue, NY

this evening 3 of my dd's best high school friends who lived here thru most of high school came round for about 5hrs. then not long after they arrived three of tims closest friends from and in the yrs since then came round. first three left bout half an hour ago. two of tims left about 5 mins ago,...

I just received a 'scary' sounding email asking me to confirm my Yahoo email account or it will be cancelled. It's obviously fake when you read thru the message with care. The grammar and punctuation are sloppy and the wording is in poor form. I know The Powers at Yahoo would take more care...

I'm not sure why I got this email, but thought I'd pass the info on in case someone here could use the room. This is the email I received: We are holding one additional hotel room that we will not be needing in Paducah, during the convention. The hotel room is at the Country Inn and Suites,...

Question for the group: I want to do a quilt (or two or......) using the Cotton Theory quilting method. I have her book 2 "Traditional Blocks" from the library. Has anybody seen both books and have an opinion about whether it would be better to have book 1 or book 2? Trixie

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I'm fairly new at designing quilts with EQ6 (spouse does the sewing). First, I prefer using the color palette to the fabric palette, as I can see the colors better (sometimes the fabric patterns get in the way - that's just how my brain works...) and we never know what we'll find when we go to...

Someone asked me if I've been doing any quilting. When I first left I was working on this pattern - http://www.everythingquilts.com/browseproducts/Wheel-of-Mystery---Printed-Bali-Quilt-Kit.HTML But then for 3 or 4 week I just couldn't work on anything. Then I made a few small quilt tops...

Sadly Monday morning we recieved word that a friend of ours who was not quite five months pregnant was in the hospital. One of her ovaries had ruptured. They knew there was a problem, but there was nothing safe they could do about it until after the baby was born. So she was looking at much...

Hi all I’ve had an overwhelming response to the survey I posted. I’d like to thank everyone who took the trouble to reply – you all have VERY generous spirits. I said I’d let you know you the results: I posted the questions on 2 groups 34 people responded (I SAID it was overwhelming!!) 27 from...

I don't have any details, and she may kill me for doing this, but we need to hold Jeanne up right now. Her youngest son has died suddenly. Again, no details here, but we need to wrap her in love at this time. I'm so sad for my dear friend. Jenn in Tacoma