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kathyst2 wrote:
NaneeWolf wrote:
Thank you, Kathy. We are going to try our best to make everyone happy with their 'Christmas in April' surprises. It gets to be pretty overwhelming sometimes, but in the end it will all be worthwhile and very satisfying. We (actually Clara does!) have the sorting plan all worked out, a good many quilters are lined up to help, and now one of the big challenges will be to get all the HST's to the church where we'll be sorting...I'm thinking a U-Haul truck  just might work for us!By-the-way, I love the quilt in your Profile Picture! Debbie Debbie, that was my 2009 BOM! I took it to Colorado for the Ricky Tims quilt retreat in July of last year for some show and tell, and Ricky took the photo and put it into my profile. I sleep under it every night and think about how much I love the quilt. Thanks for noticing! Kathy I haven't made that BOM yet (I'm a procrastinator   ), but I sure am inclined to use simlar colors now that I see yours. It's beautiful and you should proudl!Debbie |
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NancyW wrote:
NaneeWolf wrote:
Cybersue wrote:
Just a wee update from New Zealand about the earthquake we had in Christchurch...it was so nice to hear from a couple of TQS members with thoughts and prayers this way, thank you! It's been 11 days since the quake: 163 bodies have been recovered with another 60 missing in the rubble. 14,000 homes are still without power and many, many more have no sewerage or running water. The Council is distributing 1000's of portaloos and trucks with water. 70,000 people have left the city and relocated in other parts of NZ as their homes are destroyed...that's 1/5th of Christchurch's population. An estimated 50% of our heritage buildings will need to be demolished. Multiple aftershocks are still occuring on a daily basis and we are told to expect them for another year! There has been unprecedented support for the quake region with millions of $$ being raised and donated and homes and schools opened around the country for the displaced. Our brother-in-law's sister is still missing in the rubble, but the rest of our families escaped unscathed. The mood, although sad, is positive and Christchurch will rebuild, so don't put off those plans to visit NZ!! Good luck with the sorting ladies, I wish I could help - a trip to Texas maybe?? I'm really looking forward to receiving my triangles back. Sue Roper Sue, if some of our SoTTT's members would like to include extra HST's in your return package, would you be inclined to use those HST's to make a 'friendship' quilt for someone you know that has been hit hard by the quake. Let us know and I'll put out the call Debbie Debbie and Sue - I'd be happy to send extra triangles for this friendship quilt. Debbie - please let us know if you receive other offers and plan to send those with Sue's package. I'll even help with the postage on that. I'm sending you another envelope with HST for the other 2 ladies and sending extras for Sue will be a pleasure. Debbie - thanks for all your work and Sue - we're all praying for your sister-in-law! NancyW Hmmmm....this is getting to be a rather long post, but since it's ALL here, I'll just add on to it ...I've received several emails from members saying they will be including more for Christchurch, and it's not too late to put some in an envelope to me if you've already mailed your package. I just read an email from Maryjo (Josew) and she made a very profound statement in it that I'd like to share (and I'm also thinking it could become a name for a new exchange): "Maybe quilters can build a more peaceful or is that pieceful world." I say "Government leaders... just turn it over to quilters and we'll fix it for you" Here's to your peaceful, pieceful sewing... Debbie |
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NaneeWolf wrote:
Thank you, Kathy. We are going to try our best to make everyone happy with their 'Christmas in April' surprises. It gets to be pretty overwhelming sometimes, but in the end it will all be worthwhile and very satisfying. We (actually Clara does!) have the sorting plan all worked out, a good many quilters are lined up to help, and now one of the big challenges will be to get all the HST's to the church where we'll be sorting...I'm thinking a U-Haul truck just might work for us!By-the-way, I love the quilt in your Profile Picture! Debbie Debbie, that was my 2009 BOM! I took it to Colorado for the Ricky Tims quilt retreat in July of last year for some show and tell, and Ricky took the photo and put it into my profile. I sleep under it every night and think about how much I love the quilt. Thanks for noticing! Kathy |
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PosyP wrote:
NaneeWolf wrote:
Pictures of HST's Received To-Date: Thought you might enjoy seeing a couple of pictures of some of the 268 one gallon (a few are 2-1/2 gallon!) Ziplock bags containing 105,242 HSTs. In the picture showing one tote, that tote holds 45-gallons and measures 37" long x 21" wide by 20" high. The other picture is four 64-qt. totes and one paper box. Since the sorting process has been figured out now, I'm currently going through all of these bags to take the contents out of the smaller baggies and leave them in their larger bag. They don't look like too many because of the angle of the pictures, but they are pretty much taking up about 1/4 of my extra room. For some reason - best known to my poor deluded brain - I was imagining a bath tub full of packages, then to finish the image I thought of having a bath tub full of hst's   . I think it is time I had a lie down and try and think about something else for a while  Rosemary Actually, Rosemary, my spare bathtub is probably the next place I'll have to stash more packings until sorting day arrives. Had I left them in the original envelopes, they would have filled two Jacuzzi bathtubs by now :shock: |
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NaneeWolf wrote:
Pictures of HST's Received To-Date: Thought you might enjoy seeing a couple of pictures of some of the 268 one gallon (a few are 2-1/2 gallon!) Ziplock bags containing 105,242 HSTs. In the picture showing one tote, that tote holds 45-gallons and measures 37" long x 21" wide by 20" high. The other picture is four 64-qt. totes and one paper box. Since the sorting process has been figured out now, I'm currently going through all of these bags to take the contents out of the smaller baggies and leave them in their larger bag. They don't look like too many because of the angle of the pictures, but they are pretty much taking up about 1/4 of my extra room. For some reason - best known to my poor deluded brain - I was imagining a bath tub full of packages, then to finish the image I thought of having a bath tub full of hst's . I think it is time I had a lie down and try and think about something else for a while Rosemary |
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LoriLB wrote:
Thanks so much for the pictures Debbie! It is kind of hard for the rest of us to envision. Do the post office people give you odd looks? They probably wonder what fantastically profitable business you are running... Lori Our P.O. Box is at one of those neighborhood postal/copy stores, so I don't have to deal with standing in line at the Post Office every day. Since the packages are so large and there are so many of them, they obviously don't fit INTO the P.O. box itself, so the lady (also named Debbie) puts them in the mail tote(s) to keep them all together for me. I have a very, very, very large IKEA shopping bag that I use to haul the packages home. Debbie is very sweet and always very careful with our packages. She also likes to let me know when there's an International package...a nice touch! I did explain to her what we were doing and, since she isn't a quilter, I opened a package and showed her what an HST was. I also took one of Edyta's books in to show her what some of final project could look like. She also explained to the USPS delivery person what we were doing. I'm sure someone's imagination could run wild speculating what's actually in all those rather strange looking packages with all the strange names & numbers on the front !Debbie |
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Thanks so much for the pictures Debbie! It is kind of hard for the rest of us to envision.
Do the post office people give you odd looks? They probably wonder what fantastically profitable business you are running... Lori |
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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."...quote courtesy of Dr. Seuss |
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There's been talk of the cost of quilting material going up, I went to a club and they were discussing it there, the general opinion was that if the cost goes up then they may just as well buy it in Aussie land, with the cost of the postage as that also seems to be going up, so let's hope that it stays down or it seems that a lot will be in the postition of not being able to carry on with their most favourite hobby or be buying it on home ground, let's hope it doesn't come to that
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