Virtual Retreat 2016

[Geneva C.]

Oh my! I didn't know I was sideways. Dawn you are always sideways, but I like that about you. This computer stuff is odd.

I miss seeing Rita. I hope all is well with her. My husband and I had a wonderful lunch with Rita and her husband in 2012. We were driving around Ireland and Scotland. That was a fun visit. Rita is one of a kind.

Please wish me luck with my Velcro tomorrow.

Geneva

[Geneva C.]

Yum, Lottie! Thank you! I needed something sweet after my chicken quesadillas. It was the easiest thing I could fix for dinner.

Luann, thanks for the reminder on the vitamin D. I do take a D supplement, but have been remiss since I have started with my Invisalign braces. Not sure why, but taking my vitamins doesn't always happen, since some of them are chewies. Actually, I've even considered one of those lights that people use when they live in areas with not much sun in the wintertime. Last spring I realized I felt better on days that I sat out in the sun on the deck for 15 or 20 minutes. I've been taking Airborn as a supplement also, this winter. I was sick way too many days last year. I pray this year is better! You stay well, too!

Dorothy, just wanted to let you know that I made, completed, and packaged up your row while I was well! There are no cold germs on it! (Knock on wood!). I am excited to think that you will get it tomorrow. At least, you should! Marilyn's took 4 days to get from Idaho to Montana, first class, flat. So, I'm going by that.

To all who haven't mailed theirs yet, it cost around $1.30 to mail the rows if folded flat and put into an envelope about the simple of one block. This is the price for going about one state away. Of course mailing onto Canada or across the pond, will be more! But you'all are worth it!

Dawn

I actually have one of those lights, and even though we have waaay more sunshine down here, I still use it every morning while I'm having my coffee and sitting at my computer. It really does help!
Dorothy

[Catherine S.]

Tmegrr, welcome to the forum. We talk about everything here. It may not all be quilt related, but we are all related by quilting. We learn so much from each other (Like Geneva and the velcro). We are always happy to have other quilters join in.
Also, please thank that handsome young man with you for serving our country.

[Catherine S.]

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Rosemary, now that your lounge is empty, does that mean you can no longer be a lounge lizard? :silly:

Dawn

The lounge might be empty, but the sofa is now in the sewing room so I can lounge in there :P

PS I don't do stilts or pogo sticks. :whistle:

[Catherine S.]

Rosemary - Another thought about height challenges and your task of prepping the lounge walls what about a hover board (I've heard they're coming on the market soon) or perhaps a unicycle? My husband suggests an elephant something a little less hi-tech.
Barb :-)

[Catherine S.]

Rosemary, I say keep your feet on the ground (or up on the sofa in the sewing room) while you let hubby take care of the walls. You can't sew with a broken arm! Take care of your self.

[Catherine S.]

Don't think we could quite fit an elephant in there. As for the unicycle, a friend at work has recently got one_{middle age crises?}, but it keeps dumping him on his arse :evil: :S :lol: so I think that I will give that a miss too. Our main fun and games is that I am 5' (Izzy is about the same_{when did that happen?}!) DH is 5'7" and the ceilings are 10'. We do however have a 4' long work platform for doing of such things - and I ought to be up on it just now washing the top part of the wall I did a couple of nights ago, ah well in a minute or two!_{that would be a 'just get to the end of this seam' sized minute... :P}

Oh and just in case we should feel that things are too quiet around here, the ballcock in the second toilet is broken and so the cistern is leaking and the radiator in our bedroom has sprung a leak and is now turned off - at least we have a working open fireplace_{very uncommon!} in our bedroom so we can warm the room up that way.

[Catherine S.]

Yikes - sounds busy and expensive at your house!
Barb :-)

[Catherine S.]

Luanne! Thank you for the kind offer. At this time, I will not take you up on that offer. I need to get myself motivated and until that happens I don't want to feel guilty because you have done a ton of work and I am doing nothing. Does that make sense. It sure does make me feel special knowing you care that much. Big, big hugs to you.

[Catherine S.]

WooHoo! I just drafted twelve blocks! Maybe I'll even get around to making them. :whistle:

[Annis C.]

I've been away from the forum for a month...no way to catch up now. Lots of things to do. Thought you might be interested in the progress of quilting my Mini 2011 BOM. After 3 weekends of stitching in-the-ditch on my Janome 6600 at slowest speed and 2 weekends of outline and shadow quilting, it's finally looking closer to finished. The more quilting I add the less the imperfections are bothering me. I'm entering it in the Dallas Quilt Show in March in order to give myself a deadline. I still have 5 borders of decorative quilting to do, some of which I have planned. The final scalloped border I'm not sure of yet. I'm doing everything with a walking foot so the quilting designs need to be simple and hopefully with few starts and stops. I've hidden enough threads now for a lifetime of quilts and was so glad when I finished the part that needed invisible thread. Here is what a portion of the back of the quilt looks like now. The front view will have to wait until after the show.

[Annis C.]

Love your quilting Annis, it looks awesome.

[Geneva C.]

Very nice Annis!

Geneva

[Jules M.]

Last week was a busy week for me. But I got my Swoon top pieced before the "gone every day hit on Weds". The picture is just a fast one to send to BFF via phone. I didn't hang it on my rack with perfect camera angle and such. Hope you'll not fuss too much.

I worked on it a lot the weekend before... Jan 24 & 25. Tuesday, I really had to get real work done but my mind wasn't with me on that and I really wanted to just piece my own. So I did. At 3:40 (they close at 4), it dawned on me to check with my Bernina dealer about the machine cleaning schedule. The next day was the only day I could go there if it was due this weekend. It is 60 miles from me and then a 2 week time lapse to get it back. I do have other machines but of course this is my favorite! :cheer: (B 200 artista, I bought it when it was TOTL.) So I needed the machine there by Saturday but my only open time was Weds aft to get it there. So I pushed all Tuesday to get it all pieced. I finished at 8 p.m. and then packed my machine up for the dealer the next morning. Early.

I have the backing here and it will need pieced. The top is 88" x 88". But I've had customer work and other things going on so haven't done that yet.

[Jules M.]

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