Thanks Roseanne! I hope that if someone notices when it's available on-line you will post a link for us to see it! THANKS!

Margo wrote:
copied the following from http://www.fonsandporter.com:

1713 - Friendship Quilts

Marianne Fons and Mary Fons demonstrate how to make perfect half-square triangles. They show several examples of quilts made with triangle units that were created in a friendship exchange.

Please note that this show is currently available only through your public television station and is not yet available for online viewing.

JudithLee wrote:
JudithLee, was this a TV show or something on line that we can see??

JudithLee wrote: Bummer, I missed that. I might have to hunt that episode down and hopefully they have it online. It will have to wait. I have this big event coming... something about a ton of HSTs that are taking over Debbie's house and there are some hungry quilters waiting for them to return. So, we will wait a little on everything else. Clara

Last week I watched a Fons and Porter show that featured Edyta Sitar's friendship triangle exchange. I hope some of you got to watch it. The best part was when they showed some gorgeous quilts made from the triangle exchange between the Landauer Publishing staff and the Fons and Porter staff.

... And to think all this musicality and BVD info came about because Rosemary challenged me to rewrite Bob Hope's theme song "Thanks for the Memories" on an earlier post...and two shortened versions by other quilters were added too! BTW, I'm working on a rewrite, Rosemary, but I'm doing my homework first...and am waiting until Clara and her crew are finished with their part of this fab exchange...so I can r-e-a-l-l-y say, "THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES" from the bottom of my heart!
Shirley
Gresham, Oregon

sugarmuffin57 wrote:

You never know what you will learn on the TQS site!! Thanks Karen!!

BVD is a brand of men's underwear, which are commonly referred to as "BVDs." BVD stands for Bradley, Voorhees & Day, the New York City firm that initially manufactured underwear of this name for both men and women. BVD is now only for men. It was founded in 1876 and named for its three founders.

PattiSure wrote:
Hurrah, we need a variety of music lined up to sort and sew by

Rosemary

PS translation please - what is a BVD?

Thanks Debbie and Clara (and all the others) for all your hard work and yes sending them in separate lots would be good, I am planning on starting over Easter with what I have here, at least getting 1 or 2 done, the tops that is, before I get all the ladies together for working bees. I have printed out some designs and bought Edyta's books and plan on letting each lady choose a design, keeping them as simple as possible so to finish as soon as possible. The need is becoming urgent as it is now Autumn down south (Fall to you) and cooler nights are coming. I still have 2 little girl quilts to finish before then for my precious nieces so I had better get on with it.
Love to all,
Louise

sforster395 wrote:

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Shirley. It's be a fun and interesting ride, but we're only half-way there now. Thank goodness I have Clara helping, too. She has been a blessing!

What an amazing HST exchange this has been...with only 10% of the original folks not participating and we still made it over the 220,000 mark! WOW! Hope we didn't lose any of our original guys who were brave enough to sign up with us! Debbie, you're the absolute best person we could have managing this part of the exchange. Thank you for all of your conscientious hard work! Good show!
Shirley
Gresham, Oregon


P.S.: Clara is the other half of this "dynamic duo," and she has her work cut out for her too. Many thanks to both of you and your generous people who are all making this wonderful exchange possible! Muchas gracias also to Margo for all of her "educational/instructional" quilting help. You guys are all terrific!

UPDATED PACKAGE & HST COUNT!!!!

THE APRIL 1ST DEADLINE HAS COME AND GONE!! AS OF SUNDAY, APRIL 3, I HAVE RECEIVED 551 PACKAGES CONTAINING 220,445 :shock: HSTs. I'M STILL WAITING ON ONLY NINE PACKAGES THAT ARE ALREADY ON THEIR WAY TO TEXAS. ONE MAJOR HURDLE PASSED, NOW THE SORTING AND MAILING HURDLE IS WAITING IN THE WINGS.

THAT SHOULD PUT THE FINAL COUNT AT 560 PACKAGES, BUT WHO KNOWS HOW MANY HSTs. DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WE'LL MAKE THE QUARTER MILLION MARK AND AMAZINGLY ONLY ABOUT 10% OF MEMBERS WHO ORIGINALLY SIGNED UP DID NOT PARTICIPATE.

SADLY ROSEMARY'S IS STILL TRYING TO FIND IT'S WAY TO TEXAS. IT MUST HAVE TAKEN AN UNSCHEDULED SIDE TRIP AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE HEADING HERE. HOWEVER, CONSIDERING HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR MAUREEN'S TO GET HERE FROM SCOTLAND, I'M STILL CONFIDENT THEY WILL NOT BE LATE FOR THE 'PARTY'. NOT TO WORRY, ROSEMARY, WE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT ELUSIVE LITTLE BUGGER !! [/color]

louisevickers wrote:
How sad for all the families who have endured so much. It's wonderful that you will be able to touch a few with your quilts, Louise. Sounds like we might need to get some of the donated HSTs to you pretty quickly since you have so many to make. Are you making the same design for each quilt and how many HSTs are you using in each? There are a lot for you, Hanne-Grete and New Zealand. I'll see about getting some mailed this week and I'll let you know when they've been sent.