hug page

>I am looking for the saying about a hug quilt. Need to deliver one
>tomorrow!! and want to add a label or written on paper explanation. I lost
>everything on my old computer so need it again.
> --
> http://community.webshots.com/user/EstelleUK11

> This is what I copied and saved long ago... is this what you are looking
> for?
> A HUG is bits of fabric put together with love and understanding -- and
> sometimes, a serious case of stitching-out-the-pain, for some of us who
> cannot be there to administer the real, personal HUGs. A HUG is one way
> (sometimes the only way we have, in this chunk of cyber-space, this big
> quilting bee many of us have depended on in ways we can never fully
> explain)
> to put our arms around someone (and each other); to reach out and say "I
> wish I could be there with/for you, in person, but I can't, and this will
> just have to do, at least for now."
> A HUG wraps the absolute caring that goes on in this newsgroup (RCTQ) into
> a tangible package for someone to touch, and feel, and cuddle down into
> when times are tough. Sometimes, a HUG is all we have, when words aren't
> enough. Now, don't think for an instant that HUGs are ALL sadness and
> tragedy. Not by a long shot, they aren't. There's almost always a lot of
> laughter stitched into each HUG, and a lot of shared good-times. Lots of
> puns get worked into many of the HUG-blocks, and lots of the things we've
> just LEARNED about each other, from time to time. Lots of rainbows and
> butterfly wings and sunshine and flowers and just downright-silly-giggles,
> too.
> There is an astonishing amount of power in a HUG, folks. Lightning and
> thunder and some really sharp edges and planes. Anger, sometimes, in a
> HUG. A good, clean kind of anger.
> A HUG is for Friendship and Family. A HUG helps with fear and pain. A HUG
> is for Laughter and good times and spinning around the room in a
> happy-dance. A HUG is all the things quilters do, for all the reasons they
> do the things they do. But because mostly, quilters do what they do
> because they CARE so very deeply, and simply understand the perfect beauty
> of a HUG quilt.
> May this HUG wrap you in the arms of all those who love you, many around
> the country, and around the world, who you may never meet but hold you and
> those you love deep in their hearts and daily in their prayers.
> --
> Kate in MI
> http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
>>I am looking for the saying about a hug quilt. Need to deliver one
>>tomorrow!! and want to add a label or written on paper explanation. I lost
>>everything on my old computer so need it again.
>> --
>> http://community.webshots.com/user/EstelleUK11
>

> This is what I copied and saved long ago... is this what you are looking
> for?
> A HUG is bits of fabric put together with love and understanding -- and
> sometimes, a serious case of stitching-out-the-pain, for some of us who
> cannot be there to administer the real, personal HUGs. =A0A HUG is one wa=

> (sometimes the only way we have, in this chunk of cyber-space, this big
> quilting bee many of us have depended on in ways we can never fully expla=

> to put our arms around someone (and each other); to reach out and say "I
> wish I could be there with/for you, in person, but I can't, and this will
> just have to do, at least for now."
> A HUG wraps the absolute caring that goes on in this newsgroup (RCTQ) int=

> tangible package for someone to touch, and feel, and cuddle down into whe=

> times are tough. Sometimes, a HUG is all we have, when words aren't enoug=

> Now, don't think for an instant that HUGs are ALL sadness and tragedy. No=

> by a long shot, they aren't. There's almost always a lot of laughter
> stitched into each HUG, and a lot of shared good-times. Lots of puns get
> worked into many of the HUG-blocks, and lots of the things we've just
> LEARNED about each other, from time to time. Lots of rainbows and butterf=

> wings and sunshine and flowers and just downright-silly-giggles, too.
> There is an astonishing amount of power in a HUG, folks. Lightning and
> thunder and some really sharp edges and planes. Anger, sometimes, in a HU=

> A good, clean kind of anger.
> A HUG is for Friendship and Family. A HUG helps with fear and pain. A HUG=

> for Laughter and good times and spinning around the room in a happy-dance=

> HUG is all the things quilters do, for all the reasons they do the things
> they do. But because mostly, quilters do what they do because they CARE s=

> very deeply, and simply understand the perfect beauty of a HUG quilt.
> May this HUG wrap you in the arms of all those who love you, many around =

> country, and around the world, who you may never meet but hold you and th=

> you love deep in their hearts and daily in their prayers.
> --
> Kate in MIhttp://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves

> This is what I copied and saved long ago... is this what you are looking
> for?
> A HUG is bits of fabric put together with love and understanding -- and
> sometimes, a serious case of stitching-out-the-pain, for some of us who
> cannot be there to administer the real, personal HUGs. A HUG is one way
> (sometimes the only way we have, in this chunk of cyber-space, this big
> quilting bee many of us have depended on in ways we can never fully
> explain)
> to put our arms around someone (and each other); to reach out and say "I
> wish I could be there with/for you, in person, but I can't, and this will
> just have to do, at least for now."
> A HUG wraps the absolute caring that goes on in this newsgroup (RCTQ) into
> a
> tangible package for someone to touch, and feel, and cuddle down into when
> times are tough. Sometimes, a HUG is all we have, when words aren't
> enough.
> Now, don't think for an instant that HUGs are ALL sadness and tragedy. Not
> by a long shot, they aren't. There's almost always a lot of laughter
> stitched into each HUG, and a lot of shared good-times. Lots of puns get
> worked into many of the HUG-blocks, and lots of the things we've just
> LEARNED about each other, from time to time. Lots of rainbows and
> butterfly
> wings and sunshine and flowers and just downright-silly-giggles, too.
> There is an astonishing amount of power in a HUG, folks. Lightning and
> thunder and some really sharp edges and planes. Anger, sometimes, in a
> HUG.
> A good, clean kind of anger.
> A HUG is for Friendship and Family. A HUG helps with fear and pain. A HUG
> is
> for Laughter and good times and spinning around the room in a happy-dance.
> A
> HUG is all the things quilters do, for all the reasons they do the things
> they do. But because mostly, quilters do what they do because they CARE so
> very deeply, and simply understand the perfect beauty of a HUG quilt.
> May this HUG wrap you in the arms of all those who love you, many around
> the
> country, and around the world, who you may never meet but hold you and
> those
> you love deep in their hearts and daily in their prayers.
> --
> Kate in MIhttp://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves