Reminder. If you leave the triangles closed with the paper on them, it helps protect them in transport and keeps them from falling apart or becoming distorted.

Thanks, Clara

SoTTT''s Members....

Please pay attention to the Guidelines and do NOT press your HST's open. I am starting to go through the packages I've received to get them organized and ready for sorting and I have already come across THREE packages..out of only 26 so far, where the participants actually pressed their HST's open . This is so important that I felt like I needed to stop what I was doing to post this reminder. Since they have bias edges this will cause distortion, it can cause them to be wrinkled during the sorting and mailing, and they are also more difficult to repackage.

Also...if you are sending extras for Queensland, Hanne, or for whatever, please put them in separate, clearly marked baggies. I don't have time to start counting them out of your HSTs and I won't be able to go back to your original email to figure out what they extras are for. If they're not separated and marked, then they'll just be included in the sorting mix and not wind up going where you want them to.

They also need to be in increments of 28. If you send me 120...that is not an increment of 28 and I will have 8 extras. If you have extras that you don't want to go elsewhere, keep those for your own stash.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could take a few mintues to review the instructions for both sewing and mailing before you're ready to proceed to each different step.

Thank you again,
Debbie

luvquilting wrote:
This Nancy also uses Superior's Masterpiece thread. Just love it. Bottom line is ok, but was created by Superior to be used in the bobbin when quilting.
Two more sheets to cut, labels made, and then I am off to the post office.
FluffBallQuilts (Nancy in Mt. Pleasant, SC)

Hi everyone. I am waiting for my triangle papers to arrive in the mail. Then I'll be sewing.

Very happy it's not snowing today. The sun is actually shining. But it is 10*.brrr

Louise , Thoughts and prayers to everyone. We can't imagine what you all have been thru.

Hugs,
Joanne

louisevickers wrote:

Louise,

We are praying that all this 'BAD' stuff is over now and you and everyone else can state to move on with some normalcy in your lives. I can't even begin to comprehend the misery these past few months have been for everyone in Queensland.

Be prepared for April, Louise!!! You're gonna have even more sewing to do since many of our SoTTTs members are sending extra HSTs for you to use in the quilt you'll be making for the victims. And the members of the Batiks-R-Us exchange are also collecting HSTs for you and Ritzy will be sending those to me to include in your package.

The HST's are fun to make, so hopefully that will be a relaxing project for you.

Debbie

louisevickers wrote: I'm glad you are alright. We had some very wintery conditions here and some intense (not as intense as you've had) but enough to knock over a bunch of trees at our fence line to get us shopping for a chain saw. Good luck with the cleanup.

I've heart soft side before when describing hurricanes. It is puzzling to me because either way a storm that massive will make it's mark.

Glad your ok, and hoping those you love around you are fine too.

Clara

Hello every one!
My HST's (with some extras) are on their way to Debbie, international postage paid to Clara, message sent to Debbie. (I think it was e-mail, not personal message..) Now I should start thinking of February BOM.. Thank you organizers and happy exchange to every one!

P.S. We had a little snow storm here in Finland yesterday (about 6 inches snow, I think). And I hurt my back while shoveling the snow . This is not the first time so, I know it will get better, it just take time.

To all my sisters, a big thankyou for all your prayers last week during Cyclone Yasi, it was very frightening but Cairns was very lucky as it veered slightly south and crossed the coast as a Cat 5 an hour and a half south of Cairns. We still got the high winds but luckily not the driven rain with it, the rains came the next day very heavy but not driven. I only got my power back on yesterday and it took 2 days to chainsaw our way down our driveway and a big tree had ripped the power lines out of the pole. The towns that were hit were hard hit, (someone said that there was a soft side - no such thing as a soft side of a cyclone), I went into the city today for the first time and went to the post office and I received my parcel of fabrics and papers, yippee.... it will be a couple of weeks before I can get onto the HST's as the cleanup is huge around here and I am exhausted already. Thank you all. Louise

Yippee, I finished my HST's and they are on the way to Debbie. Did 616 plus extra for Australia and Norway. This was my first exchange and I am having a great time. So glad that Edyta, Alex and Ricky are participating; makes it even more special. Now I have to start on HST's for Batiks-R-Us exchange. Then peruse Edyta's books to see what I want to make. Thanks to our coordinators for all their hard work. I'm sure they didn't imagine it would grow this much when the exchange started.

Elizabeth
(Hulagirl)
Anchorage, Alaska, USA

I am sewing my 4th sheet and have all the rest (16 sheets) pinned and ready to go - I am using lights of all colors, not just neutrals and am also using Masterpiece # 153 Parchment. Should be ready to get them to Debbie next week.

Barb in Houston
Sensational Strippers

jantayl wrote:
Relax and enjoy being back home, Janis...and have fun sewing your triangles. Warning: They Can Be Addictive !

Debbie

I have been on the road working aned can't wait to get home so I can sew my triangles. I want to thank you for putting this exchange together. Janis from Missouri

My favourite Masterpiece thread is 136 Fresco I buy the 3000 yards Joan

gerbigk wrote:
You did and thank you.