Well, I spent the whole afternoon delighting over all my HSTs - I was alone in the house, but occasionally I found myself talking out loud to them! "Oh! You're so nice!", "I love you!" "Wow! What a combination!" "Oh, boy I've never seen one like you before, where will you go?!" And once or twice an out loud laugh as in LOL giggle! What fun! I got a few internationals- and 43 states! I did receive some duplicates, but If you gals don't need them, I'm going to use them all! Let me know if you want/need extras as I have plenty! Thank you all so much, I cherish these little bits of fun and friendship always. Now, I need to 'listen' to them talk back to me as I turn them into something wonderful. It's going to be hard to stick to my deadline to finish my grandson's quilt for his third birthday, (early June) and based upon yesterday, I don't have that much discipline. Not a thing got done - dishes, laundry, mail, etc. But a boy only turns 3 once, so, I am motivated.

Woo! Hoo!

HST"s have landed in England too, I have been quilting all day and just arrived home, now doing the happy Happy Dance large space cleared now going to spend the rest of the evening looking at my wonderful little treasures.

Dean Lotti and Nan:

So happy your HTS's have arrived. Your excitement is joyous. Enjoy the experience as it is one we all share together! Lotti, I have one of your HST's so this is exciting.

Diana

Nan in Scotland...So happy you got your HST's have arrived...I received 3 of yours in my lot here in Ontario Canada yesterday...those little devils sure are world travelers..
Enjoy playing and Keep on quilting...Cassandra

YEAH!!!!!!
HST have landed in UK.

Nan in Scotland

loise98 wrote:

Thank-you for your kind words. I hope others like the idea of the exchange ...

Hey Debbie & Clara, ( and Ritzy)
I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts upon what you would recommend would be done differently for future exchanges, what worked & what didn't etc, etc, etc. I have been mulling this over in my mind for a while now, but didn't want to post my suggestions until we had some feedback from the from the initial Sorting Queen's experiences.

Cheers

serin10 wrote:
Hi Kari, I just read your post regarding the SoTTs Clearing House. Sounds like you have a great system. I wish you luck. I exchanged about 300 HST's and got very few duplicates although there were a few. I would imagine that was the case with most people. Hopefully, your job won't be to large or overwhelming. I am thinking there must be only a relatively few out of all of us who made the exchange who need the clearing house. I really admire your organizational skills. Lois Bruno

I have just received my package! I was looking forward to getting all the triangles from everyone but I didn't realize just how exciting it really was going to be. I have been sitting here for two hours just playing with them with lots of excited comments to the kids. They really think I'm nuts now! Thank you to everyone involved for all your hard work, it is much appreciated. It really has been so nice to read the all the posts and now to have a part of you all in a very special quilt. I will have to get a map out to check where all these places are in U.S., some of the names are the same as what we have but others are quite unusual.
This is one happy International sister!
Very excited with my Golden Tickets and one from Debbie as well!

good morning dorothy

am keeping fingers and toes crossed - have to use my fingers for work - so that a bit difficult

any moment / day now - i can definitely confirm that they ARE SOOOOOO WORTH THE WAIT.

don't fret if you don't see the baggie of the golden tickets - it's a small thin sandwich-bag - which just about disappears inside all the HSTs - best is to just empty the whole bunch onto the largest table in the house (dining room table with all extra panels set in) and relegate everyone to eat at the kitchen table (if you have one) or off their laps/from the coffee table, for the next little while. you'll need lots of space to spread out and ENJOY - i'm very seriously considering taking command of a few tables at our cafeteria here at work - or maybe even a conference room - darn we have two weeks of training courses - so i can't just take the training room - that would be sooooo perfect - lots of nice white tables and a whole wall of windows

thank you - was at the hairdresser last friday - and thought i might as well have a new pic while i look semi-decent - will be another 2 months till that happens again

Oh!! Lotti so pleased you have received your HST's just maybe mine will arrive today, keep your fingers crossed for me,
BTW love your new profile photo.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY DANCE - YES I'M ONCE AGAIN DOING THE HAPPY DANCE
at the post office just after it opened this morning - box almost did not fit into the bicycle basket - but got it - my laptop - all my other stuff and myself safely and very HAPPY to the office in good time YEAH !!!

and what was i doing instead of checking my e-mails and doing the regular morning stuff (including doing the BIG boss' mail as his assistant is on vacation) - yup - checking out those lovely lovely lovely little friends - OH THEY ARE SOOOOOOOOOO FABULOUS - one of the first i looked at is from clara and then there was one from barb - they immediately moved into the golden ticket bag - so far saw one from scotland - a few from alaska - lots from california - a few from vermont (almost home ) and quite a few from texas - but sadly had to put them aside as - whatever i might think - i am not getting paid for playing with HSTs - although boss when he walked in and saw the "fabric mess" on top of my regular piles of work mess did not say anything at all (he knows me quite well - have been here for 18 years).

now better get going and look after his mail

can't wait for lunchtime - will be a LOOOOOONG lunch

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU EVER SOOOOOOO MUCH TO ALL WHO HELPED

lots of smiles from a sunny and bright baar - switzerland
your overjoyed soulsister

I have posted the details for the Duplicate Exchange on page 1 of the SoTTTs Clearing House - Duplicate and Wayward Exchange topic.

snelson61 wrote:
Sherie, you might want to check out the info on this forum topic for an exchange: [url]forum/friendship-triangle-exchange/4617-sottts-clearing-house-duplicate-and-wayward-exchange[/url]