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Posted by Susan Laity Price on February 16, 2007, 10:15 am
One of the members of my quilting bee died almost a year ago. Her
daughter gave us all of her mother's fabrics. Among the fabric were
several unfinished projects. Our plan was to finish these projects and
give them back to the family but we just never got around to it.
Yesterday we had an all day workshop at my house and did nothing but
work on these projects. We were able to finish three big projects and
get them ready for the long arm quilting including backings. These
will ge given back to the daughter with suggestions for contacting a
long arm quilter. The family can afford to pay for this service so we
decided that was the way to go. Each of us took home another project
with complete instructions as to what needs to be done to complete it.
We all felt so good to have these projects on their way. It also made
us think about all the unfinished projects we have in our own stash.
One woman whose husband is retired military (the quick, tidy,
efficient type guy) said her husband would be upset with her if she
had that many unfinished projects. I didn't say anything but my
thoughts drifted downstairs to my 100's of unfinished projects and
once again I was thankful that my husband doesn't notice.
Susan
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Posted by Roberta Zollner on February 16, 2007, 11:38 am
IMO not all projects are destined to be finished quilts. Some were just
experiments, or something that didn't work for some reason. But it might be
better for our posterity if we cleaned out all those "archives" now and
then!
Your group is wonderful to do this for your departed friend and her family.
Roberta in D
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> One of the members of my quilting bee died almost a year ago. Her
> daughter gave us all of her mother's fabrics. Among the fabric were
> several unfinished projects. Our plan was to finish these projects and
> give them back to the family but we just never got around to it.
> Yesterday we had an all day workshop at my house and did nothing but
> work on these projects. We were able to finish three big projects and
> get them ready for the long arm quilting including backings. These
> will ge given back to the daughter with suggestions for contacting a
> long arm quilter. The family can afford to pay for this service so we
> decided that was the way to go. Each of us took home another project
> with complete instructions as to what needs to be done to complete it.
> We all felt so good to have these projects on their way. It also made
> us think about all the unfinished projects we have in our own stash.
> One woman whose husband is retired military (the quick, tidy,
> efficient type guy) said her husband would be upset with her if she
> had that many unfinished projects. I didn't say anything but my
> thoughts drifted downstairs to my 100's of unfinished projects and
> once again I was thankful that my husband doesn't notice.
> Susan
>
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Posted by Polly Esther on February 16, 2007, 12:29 pm
I'm so glad you have reported in. I was thinking you had a trip planned
recently and wondered if the tough weather had delayed you or worse. hm
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> IMO not all projects are destined to be finished quilts. Some were just
> experiments, or something that didn't work for some reason. But it might
> be better for our posterity if we cleaned out all those "archives" now and
> then!
> Your group is wonderful to do this for your departed friend and her
> family.
> Roberta in D
>> One of the members of my quilting bee died almost a year ago. Her
>> daughter gave us all of her mother's fabrics. Among the fabric were
>> several unfinished projects. Our plan was to finish these projects and
>> give them back to the family but we just never got around to it.
>> Yesterday we had an all day workshop at my house and did nothing but
>> work on these projects. We were able to finish three big projects and
>> get them ready for the long arm quilting including backings. These
>> will ge given back to the daughter with suggestions for contacting a
>> long arm quilter. The family can afford to pay for this service so we
>> decided that was the way to go. Each of us took home another project
>> with complete instructions as to what needs to be done to complete it.
>> We all felt so good to have these projects on their way. It also made
>> us think about all the unfinished projects we have in our own stash.
>> One woman whose husband is retired military (the quick, tidy,
>> efficient type guy) said her husband would be upset with her if she
>> had that many unfinished projects. I didn't say anything but my
>> thoughts drifted downstairs to my 100's of unfinished projects and
>> once again I was thankful that my husband doesn't notice.
>> Susan
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Posted by Susan Laity Price on February 17, 2007, 10:40 am
During the nice weather in December we canceled our trip south planned
for February. Now we are asking ourselves why. For the third day this
week there are several inches of snow. Fortunately it is the type of
snow that the snowblower likes. That wet stuff that we get sometimes
is called "heart attack snow" because it is too heavy for most snow
blowers and people have heart attacks clearing the driveway. Most days
the temperature has been above 0 but not too far. As soon as the sun
goes down the temperature drops fast. Good weather to stay inside and
sew. We have been spoiled the last few years by very mild winters.
This winter reminds us that we do live in Chicago. At least we don't
live in up state New York.
Susan
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:29:08 -0600, "Polly Esther"
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>I'm so glad you have reported in. I was thinking you had a trip planned
>recently and wondered if the tough weather had delayed you or worse. hm
>> IMO not all projects are destined to be finished quilts. Some were just
>> experiments, or something that didn't work for some reason. But it might
>> be better for our posterity if we cleaned out all those "archives" now and
>> then!
>> Your group is wonderful to do this for your departed friend and her
>> family.
>> Roberta in D
>>> One of the members of my quilting bee died almost a year ago. Her
>>> daughter gave us all of her mother's fabrics. Among the fabric were
>>> several unfinished projects. Our plan was to finish these projects and
>>> give them back to the family but we just never got around to it.
>>> Yesterday we had an all day workshop at my house and did nothing but
>>> work on these projects. We were able to finish three big projects and
>>> get them ready for the long arm quilting including backings. These
>>> will ge given back to the daughter with suggestions for contacting a
>>> long arm quilter. The family can afford to pay for this service so we
>>> decided that was the way to go. Each of us took home another project
>>> with complete instructions as to what needs to be done to complete it.
>>> We all felt so good to have these projects on their way. It also made
>>> us think about all the unfinished projects we have in our own stash.
>>> One woman whose husband is retired military (the quick, tidy,
>>> efficient type guy) said her husband would be upset with her if she
>>> had that many unfinished projects. I didn't say anything but my
>>> thoughts drifted downstairs to my 100's of unfinished projects and
>>> once again I was thankful that my husband doesn't notice.
>>> Susan
>>
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Posted by Susan Laity Price on February 17, 2007, 10:35 am
Yes, not everything is destined to be a finished quilt. We had weeded
out a few of those when we first received the boxes of fabric. The
twelve projects we worked on this week were all things that we could
tell were well on their way to being finished. She must not have liked
to add borders because several tops were finished except for borders.
I am sure some of the quilts are smaller than she intended. We just
assembled the finished number of blocks even if there was extra fabric
left to make more blocks.
Susan
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:38:57 +0100, "Roberta Zollner"
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>IMO not all projects are destined to be finished quilts. Some were just
>experiments, or something that didn't work for some reason. But it might be
>better for our posterity if we cleaned out all those "archives" now and
>then!
>Your group is wonderful to do this for your departed friend and her family.
>Roberta in D
>> One of the members of my quilting bee died almost a year ago. Her
>> daughter gave us all of her mother's fabrics. Among the fabric were
>> several unfinished projects. Our plan was to finish these projects and
>> give them back to the family but we just never got around to it.
>> Yesterday we had an all day workshop at my house and did nothing but
>> work on these projects. We were able to finish three big projects and
>> get them ready for the long arm quilting including backings. These
>> will ge given back to the daughter with suggestions for contacting a
>> long arm quilter. The family can afford to pay for this service so we
>> decided that was the way to go. Each of us took home another project
>> with complete instructions as to what needs to be done to complete it.
>> We all felt so good to have these projects on their way. It also made
>> us think about all the unfinished projects we have in our own stash.
>> One woman whose husband is retired military (the quick, tidy,
>> efficient type guy) said her husband would be upset with her if she
>> had that many unfinished projects. I didn't say anything but my
>> thoughts drifted downstairs to my 100's of unfinished projects and
>> once again I was thankful that my husband doesn't notice.
>> Susan
>>
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> daughter gave us all of her mother's fabrics. Among the fabric were
> several unfinished projects. Our plan was to finish these projects and
> give them back to the family but we just never got around to it.
> Yesterday we had an all day workshop at my house and did nothing but
> work on these projects. We were able to finish three big projects and
> get them ready for the long arm quilting including backings. These
> will ge given back to the daughter with suggestions for contacting a
> long arm quilter. The family can afford to pay for this service so we
> decided that was the way to go. Each of us took home another project
> with complete instructions as to what needs to be done to complete it.
> We all felt so good to have these projects on their way. It also made
> us think about all the unfinished projects we have in our own stash.
> One woman whose husband is retired military (the quick, tidy,
> efficient type guy) said her husband would be upset with her if she
> had that many unfinished projects. I didn't say anything but my
> thoughts drifted downstairs to my 100's of unfinished projects and
> once again I was thankful that my husband doesn't notice.
> Susan
>