printmaker wrote:
Thanks Jackie...please be gentle with me! I'm NOT a paid professional!! LOL!!!

In case you've missed them, there are now three videos:

[url]daily-blog/103-good-advice/14744-margo-prepares-her-half-square-triangles[/url]

[url]daily-blog/103-good-advice/14745-margos-test-for-14-seam-accuracy[/url]

[url]daily-blog/103-good-advice/14753-margo-turns-hsts-into-pinwheels[/url]


BTW....Anyone who has been to a Ricky Tims' Super Seminar is a member of his official "WHOO-HOO" nation!!! I think that the members who are active on the web site are legit members, too!!

Hey SoTTTs, Did you catch the Daily Blog for today? OUR Margo, demonstrator and explicator extraordinaire is now put out there for all TQS members and visitors to see and learn from her.! I knew you were GOOD, but who knew you were FAMOUS, too?! Jackie in Texas where we got a little more moisture during the night - WHOO HOO (as someone else has said on this forum )

FluffBallQuilts wrote:
Well, I certainly don't know it all, but I do know how to do this!

After you have written your comment in the forum text box, open a new tab in your browser and navigate in that tab to the location in the site you want to link to.
At the top of your new tab, highlight the URL (the entire http://www.address) and right click your mouse to COPY the highlighted address.
Go back to the forum tab and click to place your cursor where you want the link to appear.
Right click your mouse to PASTE the address.

After I SUBMIT my post and am taken back to the forum topic, I usually click on the link to make sure that it takes me where I want to be!

Easy-peasy!

crocus999 wrote: I like all the ideas. Humm. Clara

Clara - THANK YOU for a job well done, and I agree with you about our hubbies. Now is the time for you to go for a manicure, a pedicure, a day at the spa, - or - equally enjoyable - just stay home and play with you HSTs! Or maybe you'd rather to horseback riding? ( I can't relate ) Enjoy the day!

There should have been a small printed note on a bright color paper inside your package which explains what is in the Golden Ticket baggie. There is one from Alex, Ricky, Margo, and the one that is pressed open and either signed or unsigned is from Edyta. Edyta wasn't able to sign each of her HST's so it was strictly the luck of the draw as to who received a signed one from her.[/quote]

Debbie,
Thanks for the info, I was guessing from you, but see I would have been wrong. Didn't see the bright colored paper and I just finished sorting out the unsigned ones. My design calls from some just dark triangles, some just light triangles and some cut in half triangles (half light & half dark), these will be made from the unsigned. So far I have one whole block and 2 half blocks made. When I finish one more whole block and 2 half blocks I will take a picture and post it. This is so much fun! I let a quilting friend look in my envelope and she right away wanted me to share.... It was really hard to say no, but my design calles for 622 HSTs. If I have some left, I guess I could give them to her (another use for those unsigned HSTs). Have a fun day, and Thanks for all the work you and all your helper did on my (and everyone else's) behalf.
Nancy in SC (aka FluffBallQuilts)[/quote]


Sorry you didn't find the note, Nancy. Below is a copy of what was in the note:

Your package from “the SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING TRIANGLES” EXCHANGE. VIA THEQUILTSHOW.COM. HAS FINALLY ARRIVED!!!

Please welcome THESE newly adopted charges in your home AND TREAT THEM lovingly AS YOU STITCH THEM TOGETHER into a remarkable friendship quilt.

OUR hst’s have TRAVELED AND WILL travel from and to many countries including
Australia, new Zealand, Canada, Germany, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, s. Korea, Scotland, Switzerland, the united kingdom and 45 DIFFERENT states in the U.S.A.

Be sure to Look inside for a small baggie containing the ‘golden tickets’ from Alex, Ricky, edyta & Margo. Ricky & alex’s have all been signed, but edyta wasn’t able to sign all that she sent, so it’s only the luck of the draw as to who gets one that EDYTA DID sign.

Thank you for participating in this exchange. we LOOK FORWARD TO hearing from you for a long, long time on our new tqs forum topic:
sottt’s chapter 3 – the sorting & beyond!

Huge hugs to all of you from Texas…
Clara LAWRENCE & Debbie WOLF[/quote]

Debbie,
Thanks for that information, I have added it to my journal.
Nancy in SC (aka FluffBallQuilts)

Margo wrote:
Thanks Margo. Now for the information on how to post the location address? I know you know because you are the Goddess of all Information!
Nancy in SC (aka FluffBallQuilts)

FluffBallQuilts wrote:
Nancy, your block is great! Here's a link: [url]community/my-profile/FluffBallQuilts[/url]

To all my international quilters. Just a note. These packages were sent Priority Mail Flat rate, so there shouldn't be a huge wait (hopefully). Give you an example. The postman estimated that Australia's package should get there in about 10-12 days. Anyone closer, hopefully it will be sooner than that.

Clara

I also need to add a very important thanks to a partner that is unseen or heard in my quilting world. My hubby. He has allowed all this craziness into his home, let his woman go a little bonkers and even taken care of the kids while I went to Houston. Thanks hubby, YOU RULE TOO!

Here's an extra thanks to all the spouses and partners out there who support us in our moments of crazy quilting. You know it makes us happy and we are happier because of it!

Clara

ClaraLawrence wrote:
Clara, Debbie, Margo, and sorters, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I'll be doing the happy dance when my HST's arrive.

I am all DONE!!! All my international and US packages are out-of-here and in the postal world. Not one remains in my house or car. My longarm is free. (They were being stored under it) Woo Hoo. I am free!!!!! Can you feel the happy dance? Wait. I'm going to do it again right now.

Think I'm going to play with my HSTs and look at them, iron them, snip them, name them... ok just play. Here's to seeing what we all can dream up. This was an adventure! An adventure that seems to be still going on in the forum world. COOL!

Extra huge thanks for my new buddy and partner Debbie and Margo. Hats off to all the sorters. And a hand over my heart to say how I'm touched by all the stories, ideas, helping and reaching out of our quilters. Quilters RULE!

Clara

Have to share this story. I have been waiting patiently for my HST to arrive. Rather than going weekly to the post office to collect our mail, I have been making it a daily adventure to check the box, leaving disappointed that my HST did not yet arrive. Well, yesterday, I was driving home in traffic when my hubby called to say he was behind me by 10 minutes (we were planning what time to have dinner on the table); I said it was okay he was running behind as I was planning to go by the post office to see if THE package had arrived. He told me he'd go instead so I could get dinner going. Well . . . when he came home I had the pasta cooking, the sauce simmering -- all good because once I saw my package, I went crazy. Dinner was the last thing on my mind. I did more than a happy dance: I was bouncing and jumping up and down. As for hubby, he was grinning from ear to ear to see me so happy. But, seriously, it was a joy to see them all and to realize what we have done in this exchange. Thank you to Debbie and Clara for all your hard work and time. Thank you to the sorters as well.

Happy in Michigan- (And can you believe my kids listened while they ate to all the different places my HST had traveled from?)
Diana

Hi All,
For those of you that gave information on the paper triangle of the HSTs, Thanks! It is such fun to look you up and see your quilts. I take time with each HST as I journal it into the block layout. Looking up all these profiles takes time, but what a quilt show I am having each day. I have used about 43 HSTs so far and have noticed some duplication (in names not fabrics). So I started a Excell file to put the names (or TQS tag) and my personal comments about quilts. If some of you have not uploaded any quilt pictures into your profile yet... please do this! It is very easy and such a joy for others to view.
The first block is posted in my TQS blog in case you want to see the first of many. Time to sew, see ya.
Nancy in SC (aka FluffBallQuilts)