strange postings

Hi from Marilyn in MN....
I'm so sorry , but you have not been invaded by a stranger. I have two blogs...this one and one of my own. I was trying to post the free giveaway on MY blog , but got on this one by mistake. (another senior brain cramp) The man with the dog is my brother and the dog was on his way to the vet to be put to sleep. a very sad occasion for the family. I have NO idea how it ended up on the WWQP.
It's been a long time since I posted anything about quilting. I do still quilt but have not been doing much of it lately. Time to get back to it...I have a long list of UFO's that need finishing . I'll be more careful next time I post anything !

Are We Being Invaded or Hijacked Like in the Old Days?

Peculiar things are being posted that don't appear to be related to our member Marilyn. Her profile (79 year old widow living in Minnesota) certainly doesn't match the artist living in California who has just posted as "Marilyn", offering freebies. And what was with the photo of the man with the possibly dying dog?

How sad that we might no longer be a members only group.

Judy in Ohio

New Year

Happy New Year!

I just managed to upload two photos of my wholecloth quilt (see the last posting on this page). My New Year's resolution: finishing more UFO's ;-) but I am starting new ones all the time. Sounds familiar, huh? But I finished one small UFO, the pendant mini quilt to a challenge quilt. I simply cut the leftovers in half to design a new quilt. The original challenge quilt was to cut 4 strips of 4" out of 5 fabrics, cut one strip in 4" squares, one strip in half square triangles, one strip in quarter square triangles, and design a quilt with those patches. We did that in a group of 20 and all 20 quilts turned out differently. So all in all, I used the same patches for these two quilts, the larger one a wallhanging about 30 x 30", the other a miniature about 16 x 16".


Sue in snow-white Germany

 

Milli

Milli, if it makes you feel any better, your sewing room looks much like mine. Mine is probably worse, as I haven't been able to do anything in it in months because of my rotator cuff surgery.

What really caught my eye, though, was the table you have your stuff on. It looks just like mine. Mine is my former dining room table, one we bought in Maine from Hiram Woodcrafts. I doubt yours is identical, but it sure looks like it!

We have recently downsized our kitchen table. We had a massive (108"!) kitchen table because there are seven in our family, but since the kids are starting to move out, we just ordered a smaller one. Once DS moves out, which should be in a month or two when his house is finished, that huge table will become my sewing table. Have to wait till he moves out because his bedroom is going to be my sewing room. It is going to be so nice to be out of my windowless basement cubicle!

Jean in VT

Purse

What is still on my sewing table is the purse for my mom's birthday--Oct 9th! Plan is to work on it tomorrow and finish on Tuesday. Then I can quilt 2 quilts for Operation Snuggles as we have 3500 deploying to Iraq and we need to ship the quilts for their kids by mid-Feb. Then I can start on the UFOs and kits that are stock piled in my sewing room. I stopped counting at 35 projects......sigh.....

Shelli

So What Ended the Year on Your Cutting Table?

Unless you are all neatfreaks...most of you have some project or another on your cutting table at the end of the year. Mine? Four boxes of rice that I had intended to use in making rice bags for Christmas. I had wonderful intentions! Well-thought intentions! But nobody got rice bags for Christmas at our house. Instead, I have four boxes of rice that may or may not end up in a rice bag. Sigh!

needles

This is just a reminder to everyone to be sure to change your needle on your sewing machine frequently. I was having tension issues, with lots of loose thread on the bottom, using a machine that never has tension issues. I finally thought about changing the needle, and it fixed the problem immediately.
Happy New Year

Long time no see!

http://picasaweb.google.com/millyquilts/SewSew?feat=email#5285669916889520242

This is the way I plan to shame myself into finishing some tops that I've been looking at too long. It's like hanging out your dirty linen. The white and blue one has been waiting much too long and I really would like to have it for the next quilt show. That gives me almost a year.

Milli in MA

Long time no see!

I'm trying to get organized and get my life under control! I just made a place to exhibit my problems - that is to say I'm putting all my UFO's out there to shame myself. Maybe that will keep me focused. I would like to have them finished, especially the blue and white one that I did so long ago. Take a look -
http://picasaweb.google.com/millyquilts/SewSew?feat=email#5285669916889520242

Here's The Link For Viewing My Album

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/569262241QSMVYe

This link should take you to the album that shows four pictures of my third Jane Stickle "Dear Jane (T)" replica quilt. More pictures will be added as time permits.

Sandra from SC