Wow, fabulous start to your collection of rows

I knew there was a reason to get to work late this morning, just as I was heading out, the mail-lady dropped this into my mailbox:

Thank you Luann, so good!!!

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Of course you are on my list, Wendy, you're my May 2016 row...
You're also 'done' - and yes - I am keeping to your theme - in my own way

Rushes off to see if I'm on Lotti's list. Comes back crying! Just as well I've not started my first row yet. I have sketched it though

Please please please don't stress over our rows!
The rowing should be fun - no one's expecting masterpieces - just nice fun stuff that we each can then turn into a quilted group hug. At least that' how I'm looking at this and certainly not as a challenge to produce a masterpiece every month - then you'll be disappointed in when you open my envelope - but I do think you will like them - have the first five months done - not because I want to send them out soon - but because i'm not sure if my workload will be much lighter in the next few months (we'll still be one or two people short in our team), and I therefore wanted a head start ...
Here's a hint of what's happening in my living room


I'll enjoy these rows hanging on my design wall for the next little while - and hopefully continue doing one here and there

I agree Dawn. Sometimes business owners forget that a little customer service goes a long way!

And about the rows. I was stressing also about what to make, etc and generally going way overboard. Once I saw the Janome site, and started using my Go cutter things became easier. And, I also realized that I can make the same block in different fabrics/placements for different rowers! Aha!

Now I'm having fun!

geneva

Geneva, you are such an inspiration to me! I too, have a Go! Cutter, and after your post, brought it back out. I was stressing over row scenes, and just decided to start with blocks, made with my Go! I did go onto the Janome site that you posted and picked a couple of blocks that I could sort of copy with the current dies that I have. Had a ball yesterday! Will work more on them today!

Marilyn, I know you have me first, and I know you have been struggling with health issues, so please take your time with my row. I don't care when I receive it! Please don't stress over it!!!

I tried to return the row kit I bought at my LQS, but they don't take back any patterns. I tried to explain that one fabric was cut too short, and the substitution on the sky fabric was not acceptable. The store owner was having none of that, gave me another sky (still not what was pictured on the kit cover page) and a slightly longer cut of the water fabric. I think what really ticked me off was when she kept telling me they went through 5 bolts of the sky fabric, just plain ran out, so made substitutions. I didn't feel that should be my problem. But, if you do the math, 5 bolts means she sold a whopping lot of row kits! You'd think she could have catered to a local regular customer, and let me return it, for a $12 credit! She made her money from them, and then some!! (The sky fabric is like 5" x 36". Divide that into 5 bolts!!!!!!!)
I'm done venting now! I'll go have fun on my GO!

Dawn

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Oh Jen I hope you get past the morning sickness time. That is so miserable!
Ritzy it sounds like a fun holiday time at your place.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year!!!!!

Thanks Geneva. That is a TON of blocks!

Jen...I feel for you morning sickness isn't fun at all crackers helped me too.
Haven't started my rows yet, as I didn't get the quilt for my son done before Christmas..just can't use my shoulder/arm for very long at a time yet. It's getting better all the time though, and I'm steadily working on it. I have the row designed, and will get it done in January. I am excited to start!

We went on a gondola ride it Venice....that's the only time I've been in a canoe....very tippy getting in but once I was seated it was ok don't think I'm a true Canadian

Dorothy

Jen, you have my sympathy with the 'morning sickness' - it really is a complete misnomer, because as you say, it can be morning, noon & night. I hope you can find something too sooth it for you. I found eating a couple of crackers every hour helped for me, my sister found that a teaspoonful of ginger jam(marmalade), taken as needed, worked for her. I seem to recall reading that it is actually a 'hungry' sickness and needs food to settle it. Sounds counter intuitive, but hey, try weird things an see what helps.

crocus999 wrote: I notice that he doesn't say whether it is on the water or not Added to which if you choose your canoe carefully it shouldn't be a problem. The first canoe we got is so flat bottomed that we turn it over at camp and use it for a table and is as steady as a barge, whereas my new canoe, Tidger, is a 'very' curved/rounded bottom and is quite unstable in comparison (and would also be hopeless as a table)