Chinese Whispers

[wendy w.]

Expect you to be here Terri helping Maureen keep us on track.

[Maureen A.]

I had to go into town early this morning so have not had a chance to go into the forum until now and there are pages of new stuff :shock: Does nobody sleep On the way back from the station I had a tyre blow out so am not long in. I will get myself a lovely cup of tea and start reading them. Be back soon :lol: :lol:

[Rita C.]

Oh Maureen, you poor thing. I had a blow out once and it was terrifying. Maybe a wee dram in the tea might help.

[Maureen A.]

But to be true to the game, I think it should only be a photo and not a description or interpretation.

Lorna

Thinking seriously about the chatter on this I think another of the rules will have to be: -

"You can email a photo of your finished quilt to the person who you are sending it to just before you post it. No description or interpretation of how you arrived at the design."

You will see the description from the photo anyway and you need to make up your own mind about how you interpret the quilt you receive with no outside influences affecting you.

I hope you all think this is fair and abide by it. I am sure this will not hinder you in any way to produce a beautiful quilt. None of the other groups are sending even a photo in advance.

[Maureen A.]

Label.. hmmm....I suppose if we just put our name, the challenge, quilt no and group name it would be ok.

Description :shock: :shock: :shock: tut tut tut go to the naughty step all of you. No talking about the quilt!


Just wait until Maureen sees those posts, you are going to be in big trouble :lol: :lol: :lol: I shall email a picture of my quilt to the person before me :lol:

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[Maureen A.]

I'm thinking a label is a great idea.! :idea: Remember a "100 word description of the quilters' process" is
to be included with the quilt. Guess I'm reading that right.?

We're smoked in here today...there is a new forest fire on our district quite( not in danger) but northwesterly winds
are driving the heavy smoke at us ! It is in remote area and near wilderness area..However there is another farther
north that is larger and causing much disruption for people there ! Lightening caused...likely to last a while..tissues
cough drops and eye drops on the shopping list !! :cry: YUCK !

The 100 word description is to be written as the quilt is finished but that is to be sent to me not in with the quilt you are sending. Two ways we can do this –

1. Email it to me and I will print it off and kept it safe until the exhibition
2. Put a copy of it in with the quilt you will be sending back to me. You can send that back to me anytime.

Let me know what everyone’s thoughts on that is.

Marilyn I hope you have stayed safe :?:

[Maureen A.]

Rosemary, I like the image of the globe and the Atlantic. I am picturing those maps of the globes on those magazines in the seat pockets on the airlines with curved lines from place to place to trace the route of the traveling quilts.

That is an interesting variation on my idea - I have a georgous big book called 'The Mapmaker's Art', and have had a quick look in it to see if there are any images that would work, one or two possibles, but always open to alternatives.

Rosemary, are you up for designing a label with the groups name on it :wink: :wink: and a space for the makers name and where she is from on it. Your Wott one was terrific. You could always email it to everyone and then they could put their name etc on it and print it out and sew it on their quilt. Or better still, email it to me and as the quilts come back to me I will add their names, print them off and sew them on the quilt. That way I could print up a page at a time instead of just one label.

[Lois B.]

Yes, and the wee dram might make you better able to deal with all of us. I am sure you must be thinking, "What did I get myself into!" As you read you will see that I had a similar surprise regarding the number of pages that accumulated while I was gone from the cite. I am still not sure if I might have missed something important. What do we chatter about? So very sorry about the tire.

[Maureen A.]

Oh Maureen, you poor thing. I had a blow out once and it was terrifying. Maybe a wee dram in the tea might help.

A wee dram or two maybe I'm thinking. The car in un-drivable until the garage comes and picks it up and fixes it so it is alright for me to have a drink It will help me sleep as well as it was a bit of a shock when the type blew. :shock:

[Lotti D.]

A wee dram or two sounds just the thing to me! Also good for the flu I believe...
Rosemary, if you're ready to tackle that label and need a bit of graphic tweaking here or there, feel free to send me your layout and idea, and I can help tweak in illustrator, indesign or photo shop... I've many of the graphic programs that we use at work to help... Just let me know (unless of course it's against the rules having an outsider help)

[Lotti D.]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Holy moly! This thread just has a life on it's own. But seems like we are in the same wave length here 8) :wink:

Love your idea of the map for the label Rosemary and if Lois idea can be added to it , it'll be great

A wee dram or two sounds just the thing to me! Also good for the flu I believe...
Rosemary, if you're ready to tackle that label and need a bit of graphic tweaking here or there, feel free to send me your layout and idea, and I can help tweak in illustrator, indesign or photo shop... I've many of the graphic programs that we use at work to help... Just let me know (unless of course it's against the rules having an outsider help)

I think it is a very nice offer Lotti. I really don't see why that could be a problem at all, since other than attaching the label to the quilt it'll have nothing to do with the design.

Rosemary, I like the image of the globe and the Atlantic. I am picturing those maps of the globes on those magazines in the seat pockets on the airlines with curved lines from place to place to trace the route of the traveling quilts.

That is an interesting variation on my idea - I have a georgous big book called 'The Mapmaker's Art', and have had a quick look in it to see if there are any images that would work, one or two possibles, but always open to alternatives.

Rosemary, are you up for designing a label with the groups name on it :wink: :wink: and a space for the makers name and where she is from on it. Your Wott one was terrific. You could always email it to everyone and then they could put their name etc on it and print it out and sew it on their quilt. Or better still, email it to me and as the quilts come back to me I will add their names, print them off and sew them on the quilt. That way I could print up a page at a time instead of just one label.

Maureen, you're really sweet to offer to put the labels on the quilts but, as it is, you're alredy doing a lot to get this project going, thanks a million I think we can take care of attaching the label to our quilt.
I'm sorry to hear about the tire blowing. Must've been scary. Thankfully the closest I've came to that has been a truck in front of our car getting a tire blown. It was a good thing there wasn't a car in the next lane and the driver managed to keep the control. So glad you're safe

Marilyn, hope those fires get soon under control. Stay safe

[Nancy R.]

Maureen - Either way for getting the 100 word description to you works for me. I think it should be whichever seems easier for you, since you will have to deal with it all. We are kind of on the same wavelength today since I just bought a new set of tires this morning. The pocketbook is a lot lighter, but it'll be welcome once the big snows get here!

I'm happy to put my own label on or let Maureen do it. Again, whichever she prefers. When I'm printing a single label, I cut a piece of the printer fabric a little bigger than my final label, then tape it to a piece of regular printer paper using scotch tape around all of the edges. I print the label on the paper first so that I know where to position the fabric. Then I just run it through the printer again and print the label without wasting any fabric.

It's fun to see how excited we all are for this challenge!

Nancy

[Nancy R.]

Thanks for sharing the way you print your label Nancy. That's very clever. I'm going to add this to my list of tips and tricks

[wendy w.]

I've never printed a label, in fact I've never printed any fabric :?

Mine will be labelled with whatever design you folks come up with, they sound really interesting.

[wendy w.]

Label designs are starting to run through my head, but what size do we need it to be?

By the way, personally I like my kale in Bubble & Squeak - mashed potato & cooked kale mixed together and then fried - yum!

Can I have my wee dram as blackberry whiskey? I have a better chance of getting to it with DH about.... :wink:

Geography, weather, recipes....I'm I on the right forum, eh? Quilting anyone? LOL I think if I had gotten into a group, I'd be too busy keeping up with the forum to do any sewing. I'll miss this when you gals begin sewing and going all silent on us
On the other hand...

Well what do you expect :roll: we are not allowed to talk about the quilts (& construction won't be starting until Oct . anyway) and we need to talk about something :lol: