Maryjo, wonderful new thoughts, activities, and people are on their way to you in your retirement journey. It's a time for relaxation, reflection, transition, and a new chapter in your life. The best is yet to come. ENJOY! Have a beautiful last day in class tomorrow with your students.

MayryJo--enjoy your new path in life!

I had an amazing last day with my middle school students! There were hugs and well wishes and even a few surprises, a wonderful memory book that all 140 wrote me a message in. I will enjoy these all summer, but am now looking forward to more time for quilting, DH and reading. Life at a different pace. Thanks for you thoughts, Maryjo

these two days also will pass - make the best of them - enjoy the friends and friendly faces - and then YEAH - have fun with your NEW lifestyle

Oh you lucky girl. I'll bet you can't wait for 2 more days.

Patti

Thanks Shirley! Glad you are home afe & sound only 2 more days of work then a change in lifestyle "Retired" and more time for quilting! Dave & I enjoyed meeting you and Fred and having dinner. Talk to you soon about IQF. I have started trying out different blocks on my design wall!
Maryjo

:shock: OMG! I've been out of the "SoTTT LOOP" for 2 weeks and really am sew happy to be back! I missed all of you! Anyway, meeting Maryjo was fabulous ... she's my kinda sistah! She gave me the ultimate invitation to room with her at the IQF in Nov. and I'm going for it! As soon as I've caught up with mail, etc. I will gladly share with all of you what I did with those cute little bunny ears! I brought them on our trip and they helped me convalesce thru a rotten cold I got 4 days into our trip! But, my DH and I still had lots of fun at Disney World! However, meeting Maryjo and Dave were the highlight of the trip for me!

All of the quilts so far are absolutely gorgeous and motivational. Louise, I'm so glad your DH is doing better and hope he gets his surgery done soon. Thank you all for sharing your creativity. And, Margo, as always, you are wonderfully helpful in getting us to the best instructional resources we need to get over little quilting hurdles.

Nancy and Roseanne, I hope someday soon we can also meet. (Maybe at the IQF?)

I totally agree with Ricky's comment after he recovered from his recent illness in WI where he was teaching with Alex and Libby, "...there should be more quilters in the world!" Amen!

Looking for fellow SOTTTs or sensational strippers! I will be in Mayfield, KY Friday and Saturday this week and would love to have lunch one of those days with any of you from Paducah and surrounds. Let me know if anyone is interested.

I still have extra triangles from Lotti in Switzerland if anyone wants them. Please send me your mail address and I will send it out.

Thanks!
Kari

PS - She sent about 50 so there are plenty to go around!

peggiew wrote:
Apparently so!!

Hello Ladies,
I found this design in Edytas book Friendship Triangles: the Constellation Throw on page 57. I let my husband select the design he liked best from this book, and this is the one he chose.

In studying the design I discovered that it consists of 16 patch squares, all of which are exactly alike, but simply rotated 90 degrees.

I received mostly colored (as opposed to neutral) HSTs.To make this design it was necessary to have distinct value change, so I made a bunch of neutral HSTs; some with less contrast - (They are not as nice as the ones I received, bc there isn't as much variety .) To get the light / dark contrast in the overall design, the neutral HSTs are placed on one diagonal, and the colored HSTs on the other. I stitched them all together and pressed them exactly the same - planning ahead for seam nesting and ease of assembly. Hahahaha! Everything went along swimmingly until the final assembly of rows. For some reason, the seams did not nest on every other row. I made a little snip in the seam allowance of the offending HSTs and then the seams nested nicely and final assembly was easy.

Sadly there were a couple of really pretty HST that were a smidgen too small, so I wasn't able to use them. So sorry to who ever made them. They will be included in the quilt, however... stay tuned!
Best to all
peggiew

did i post this???

Well, I am finally to the design wall, all hst's are documented, pressed and de-eared, now the fun begins! I will simply experiment for one more week until I retire and then I can get serious about stitching this altogether

Peggie I love you inside of your quilt and Margo, as always, yours is amazing just the motivation I need.

Maryjo

LoriReid wrote:
Lori, Peggy's original photo is on page 73 of this post, and the divided version is on page 74!

OHHH peggiew, you left us hanging (or in other words "the suspense is growing). As I was reading your description the design sounds great, I was really getting anxious to see what it looks like. Please take pics and post. Cant wait to see what it looks like.
Thanks, Lori