twells540 wrote:
Oh Theresa, so do I all the time I talk to everything and everyone that matters to me if they're here or not and I will certainly be speaking to those lovely HSTs tooo and will ask them what they want me to turn them into - all i know is that it will be a quilt/blanket of some type - something just right to cuddle up in - and get a huge multi-sister-hug whenever one of those is needed for whatever reason

RiverOwl wrote:
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU !!!
AM SOOOOOO LOOKING FORWARD TO WHATEVER COMES MY WAY

Happy Dancing here in Portland, I received my HST's today. I've just spent the last 3 hours looking through them. Shirley in Gresham, i didn't get one of yours but i did get 2 from Boring OR. Howdy neighbors, I live in NE Portland.

Can't decide what to make with them until i press them out and see what they think i should make from them. Yes, i do talk to my fabric and squares like i talk to my plants and dogs. My DH looks at me oddly sometimes, but oh well...

Thank you, thank you to Debbie and Clara and all the Bee ladies and Gentleman for all the sorting and mailing back. What a monumental task.

Thank you Ricky and Alex, Margo and Edyta for the special HST's. They are very special to me.

Theresa in Portland Oregon.

Just a note to say my HST's arrived today! So exciting -- and so many! It's going to be fun to come up with a project using them. I'll be looking forward to what everyone else does.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU CLARA AND DEBBIE, and all the many assistants, who made this exchange possible. What a nice thing to do for us all!!

YaHoo!!! I also got lucky today! So many HST"S to look through I had to take a break to feed my hungry husband. This is so much fun! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for such a fun idea and all the hard work put into this.

Yippeee!!! I recieved my HST's today and am THRILLED with ALL of them!!! So many, so beautiful, from so many places!! In addition to all over the USA, I also received HST's from Australia, England, Netherlands, Finland and Canada!! How cool is that??!!!

Many many thanks and accolades to all the Sorting Team!! What an amazing job!!

Now to decide on a pattern.... more fun!!

Michelle

AMEN AND DITTO WHAT RIVEROWL SAID ABOVE

Note to fellow SoTTT’s;

For those of us who are still being patient; it is enjoyable to live vicariously through your postings! But gosh, wanting to send back a Half-Sq. Triangle is like rejecting one of our Sister’s! Please if you need an extra one or two HST’s colors to complete a design that you can’t live without, send me a private e-mail & I will be happy to assist you if I am able (which I probably would be able to) with sending you an extra HST’s or two, should you need it; but please don’t leave out any of our Sister’s that you were sent! If you can’t use it, send it my way-I’ll put her in my quilt! Clara, Debbie and all the other quilters who are still working diligently to get us our HST’s, I for one just can’t fathom what you have been going through to make this exchange happen; it boggles my mind. Blessings to you & take a baby aspirin (81mg) every day while you are doing this (unless your Dr advises against it for some reason as it is a blood thinner) if you are sitting for long periods of time- please walk around at least ten minutes every hour. Don’t forget to drink lots of water-that will help you get up and walk around also. I know you all have been knocking your selfs out, but I want you all to be well! Take care, blessings to the Sorting Queen & her Court-Jesters & all. We all need to include them in our nightly prayers- Barbara from Bluffton, SC

Note to any quilter out there.
If you are thinking at all about sending some back to swap for something different. Don't do it. Please, pretty please, it ain't happening. I would suggest you contact every or any member of this exchange and try and talk them into sending you something different. It would just be impossible for us to swap at this point.

We are all going to have personal preferences to designs and colors we like... and they all will be different. Use what you like. Enjoy.

Clara

bar7700 wrote: Glad you like them.

Clara

Woo Hoo.... Triangles arrived today! I love them all. Clara I hear you on the fabrics sticking together. That exlains why I got four of your blocks. Love them so, no I will not send them back to swap them out.

Thanks for all your time and hard work. Y'all have done a fantastic job!

Barbara

Most of the members who are already receiving packages (from Monday's sorting day) were those that sent in smaller counts, from the high 100s down to the 28s. There were also quite a few larger counts that were completed that day too. (There may still be a few lower number stragglers in our totes, so don't panic if you sent in smaller numbers and haven't received them yet!) We were keeping count of those on Monday and a total of 206 packages were readied for mailing. Clara took those back home with her and got them in the mail as quickly as she could. I believe that Clara's Mom, Paula (Screen Name: Irisblue) singlehandedly took care of closing & taping all the packages on Monday. And she thought she wouldn't have anything to do that day!! Terrific job, Paula...thank you!

Clara is now finishing up the International packages and I'm making huge progress with the remaining U.S. packages. I took a small load to the P.O. after lunch today and now have about 200 ready to go to the P.O. on Monday. It is with great hope that I anticipate having them all mailed by the end of next week.

Once again, if it were not for my remarkable Bee members, Cotton Pickin' Bee of the Quilt Guild of Greater Houston, we certainly would not have been this far along and it might have been July 4th rather than Eastertime when they arrive in your mailbox. We spent all day Wednesday counting stacks of 28, packing proper amounts into return envelopes and shutting them up. Five members took huge totes full of HSTs and return envelopes home with them, counting more stacks of 28, and putting the right numbers into the envelopes. I now have all of the packages back at my house and am currently in the process of marking them off the spreadsheet, making sure there's enough tape to seal them shut, and putting them back into those well-used trash bags to haul to the P.O. next week.

Now I need to keep my fingers crossed that everyone added enough postage to their return envelopes!!!

You are all updated now, so I'll put my Hogwart's Sorting Hat on and it's back to HST work for me! I think we'll have to have soup for supper tonight...no time to cook a real meal! My DH, and now experienced HST cutter, would tell you it's been quite a while since I've actually cooked a 'real meal'...going on about three months now!

What a cool surprise....like Christmas in April...I got my HST's today...everything else came to a halt as I examined my package. Thank you and all your helpers so much for your hard work and time...this was so fun and it just keeps on going

a happy quilter,
Martha in CA

I'm glad some of these are starting to arrive. Funny thing with sorting and I'm sure all of my fellow quilters will get this as soon as I mention it. Fabrics stick together. A group of fabrics from one person being dumped into a bin and mixed over and over again with others can still stay together in groups of about 4-5. Even when we keep on dividing up the totes and trying to spread out the varieties I'm still finding these little clusters even just now.

Yes, I'm taking a little break. But not too long. I'm on the 3rd Harry Potter movie and I jumped ahead and watched the most recent last night. I'm making a lot of progress.

I'm breaking to feed munchkins, take the dog outside, break up fights with the munchkins, throw the ball so the dog doesn't drop the ball all over the triangles and cause me to start over and of course the mad dash to the potty. When you gotta go, you gotta GO!!!

Better get back to it. Feel a little like Santa with all these happy quilters. Just a little. How about you Debbie? Clara