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dorfymid wrote:
Welcome Lois I to have a mac and also had great trouble up loading photos, now this might help i have just uploaded my 2011 BOM pictures and wrote this down as I went along :- Click on upload Photo click on choose when the next screen on your mac comes up click on iphoto scroll down to the photo you want and click on it, click on choose ( usually in blue) then click on upload and be patient (seems to take ages)  then click on submit. Hope this helps, loved your story of the quilt blocks and the quilt looks lovely. Dorothy UK Dorothy, Thanks so much for you offer of help on how to upload pictures of my quilts. I checked out your profile pictures and loved your quilts. I especially loved Frosty Nights. I am very curious about how that was made. I will be eager to see what you do with your HST"s. I will have some time later today to follow your advice for uploading my pictures. Thanks again! Lois |
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I have been busy the past few days and haven't kept up with the forum. It has taken me the past 2 hours just to catch up on this one!! Luckily things are quiet at work tonight
 Barbara, I was laughing so hard at the squirrel story I had tears running down my face. Don't you just love it when pets bring you presents?! Margo, thank you so much for the video on pressing the HST. I managed to press far more after watching your video than I was able to do before. I have had a blast doing this. It has forced me to reorganize my sewing room to make room for the new project. It will have to wait until I finish the other 2 UFOs currently in progress. |
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prccath wrote:
Hi Shirley, Our BBQs are changing daily now... we had a pizza one last week, and that was pretty cool. But originally we all had BBQ's with sausages and steak. Generally a salad and bread rolls as well, oh and lots would say Cold Beer is a must...  As the weather is generally kind to us, BBQs are the most favoured way for friends to share a meal in the great outdoors. I have only been to three so far over this Easter weekend: 1 roast, 1 fish and 1 standard sausages and steak  !Cricket is played with a bat and a ball. On the beach, it is normally played with a tennis ball. The bat is made from wood generally. There is a bowler, who throws the ball to the batter. When he hits the ball, the batter runs between the two wickets until the ball is returned to the wickets. So it is most like baseball for you, although the bat is very different, and there is only 2 wickets, so the batter runs backwards and forwards.. That is the 20 second version of cricket, and there is probably someone with much more information than me about how the game works. It is also a big English past time, the Aussie bit is the beach! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain cricket and your BBQs It sounds like they're a lot of fun! My Chicago mid-western sense of humor got in the way of serious BBQ thinking because all I could envision were "crock-style" burgers or mini croc-style hot dogs  I think the movie "Crocodile Dundee" ruined my mind.  I'll tell ya this much...I'm gonna have fun designing my "Aussie Sue and Aussie Ricky"! Shirley Forster, Gresham, Oregon, USA Shirley, you are most welcome! And I have a picture too now of those croc sausages.. Our sense of humour is one of our treasures as well... and when my teenage son wakes up I will be sure to share your thoughts... I like everyone else is sooo pleased to be a TQS member and share with all of you from across the world. I hope to one day visit all the places you also talk about.. I see lots of travel and quilting in my future. Hoping my triangles arrive soon, I think it will be just like Christmas... Back to the finishing of the 3 quilts on the go though, so I can play with the triangles as soon as they come! |
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Welcome Lois I to have a mac and also had great trouble up loading photos, now this might help i have just uploaded my 2011 BOM pictures and wrote this down as I went along :-
Click on upload Photo click on choose when the next screen on your mac comes up click on iphoto scroll down to the photo you want and click on it, click on choose ( usually in blue) then click on upload and be patient (seems to take ages) then click on submit. Hope this helps, loved your story of the quilt blocks and the quilt looks lovely. Dorothy UK |
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After reading the lovely messages from you all receiving your HST's and been able to see who they came from I thought I should make mention that I was one of the ones who was not able to write my name on all of mine. I did on only a handful, for reasons beyond my control as in the end it was post with name or don’t post at all, so if you have some without a name perhaps for your records you may like to put my name to one or two, I did send in 600 so it should cover just about everyone. I would be thrilled if you did this and that way it will help me not feel so sad
 that know one will know its ME ME ME they are adopting.....lol lol lol |
 Taree NSW - Australia My motto in life: live by the three GGG’s - be Grateful, be Gracious, be Gorgeous to yourself |
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Taree NSW - Australia My motto in life: live by the three GGG’s - be Grateful, be Gracious, be Gorgeous to yourself |
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To keep my mind occupied until I receive those much-coveted precious HST's, I asked my DH, aka "Mr. Math" in our house, to help me crunch some numbers. (Sorry about not using the Metric System here.) I told him one yard of usable fabric by my standards was 36 inches x 42 inches (I eek out every square inch I can ), so he calculated there were 756 two-inch squares per yard which equals 1512 HST's (18 x 21 = 756 x 2 = 1512 HST's per yard).I wanted to know how many yards of fabric made up our Final Total Count of 2-inch unpressed squares, so he divided 224,359 (Debbie's final total count of unpressed 2-inch squares) by 756 and got the staggering figure of 296.77 yards of fabric :shock: :shock: :shock: we all collectively cut up into those little 2-inch squares not yet pressed open into HST pretties ... The total number of HST's was 224,359 x 2 = 448, 718 two-inch HST's He then multiplied the number of yards (296.77) by 100 (the length of one American football field is 100 yards) which equals approximately 3 football fields in length. :shock: :shock: :shock: Now think about all of our time, energy, and gas $$$ it took to order or get for free the paper-piecing templates, fabric search, labels, pressing, pinning, sewing, cutting, printing/adding labels, packing them up for Debbie, and mailing them. NOW...think about what it was like for Debbie to receive approximately 3 football fields length of fabric! (which doesn't include all the extras for special sisters)! :shock: :shock: :shock: Get the picture? NOW...think what it was like for Clara and her crew to do the sorting...but that's another story My head hurts, my eyes are bloodshot, and I'm going to sleep now and dream about 1/2 million 2-inch HST's! |
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Robyn,
Sorry I misspelled your name! Enjoy your days oif and let us know when you get your package. Maryjo |
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benno wrote:
Josew wrote:
benno wrote:
I'm jealous! We have no mail deliveries here until Wednesday due to the Easter and ANZAC day holidays so no hope of my HSTs arriving before then. But it's been lovely reading everyone's news....and I guess I can work on one of my many UFO's while I'm waiting Robyn, Cheltenham, South Australia What are ANZAC holidays about? I've never heard of them in the States? Love all the global knowledge we are gainign being sisters. Maryjo Hi Maryjo - I agree it's been great to learn about what happens in other countries . ANZAC stands for Australian & New Zealand Army Corps and Anzac Day (April 25) marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The ANZAC force landed at Gallipoli (Turkey) on 25 April 1915 - we now remember all those who died and served in all military operations for their countries during wars on Anzac Day - it's always a public holiday here. There was a movie made, in the early 1980's I think, called "Gallipoli" - well worth seeing if you can find it on DVD....very moving. As Easter is so late this year we are having an extra long weekend - ANZAC day is on Easter Monday, so they have made the public holiday on the 26th so we don't go back to work until Wednesday - YAY !!!Robin, Thanks for sharingANZAC it is like our Vertran Day which in the USA we celebrate on November 11 each year. As this was the end of World War I it is the day we celebrate all veteran too. For me it is also the birthday of my father who was born on 11-11-1918 the end of WWI and is named Victory. Maryjo |
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prccath wrote:
Hi Shirley, Our BBQs are changing daily now... we had a pizza one last week, and that was pretty cool. But originally we all had BBQ's with sausages and steak. Generally a salad and bread rolls as well, oh and lots would say Cold Beer is a must... As the weather is generally kind to us, BBQs are the most favoured way for friends to share a meal in the great outdoors. I have only been to three so far over this Easter weekend: 1 roast, 1 fish and 1 standard sausages and steak !Cricket is played with a bat and a ball. On the beach, it is normally played with a tennis ball. The bat is made from wood generally. There is a bowler, who throws the ball to the batter. When he hits the ball, the batter runs between the two wickets until the ball is returned to the wickets. So it is most like baseball for you, although the bat is very different, and there is only 2 wickets, so the batter runs backwards and forwards.. That is the 20 second version of cricket, and there is probably someone with much more information than me about how the game works. It is also a big English past time, the Aussie bit is the beach! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain cricket and your BBQs It sounds like they're a lot of fun! My Chicago mid-western sense of humor got in the way of serious BBQ thinking because all I could envision were "crock-style" burgers or mini croc-style hot dogs I think the movie "Crocodile Dundee" ruined my mind. I'll tell ya this much...I'm gonna have fun designing my "Aussie Sue and Aussie Ricky"! Shirley Forster, Gresham, Oregon, USA |
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Hi Shirley,
Our BBQs are changing daily now... we had a pizza one last week, and that was pretty cool. But originally we all had BBQ's with sausages and steak. Generally a salad and bread rolls as well, oh and lots would say Cold Beer is a must... As the weather is generally kind to us, BBQs are the most favoured way for friends to share a meal in the great outdoors. I have only been to three so far over this Easter weekend: 1 roast, 1 fish and 1 standard sausages and steak !Cricket is played with a bat and a ball. On the beach, it is normally played with a tennis ball. The bat is made from wood generally. There is a bowler, who throws the ball to the batter. When he hits the ball, the batter runs between the two wickets until the ball is returned to the wickets. So it is most like baseball for you, although the bat is very different, and there is only 2 wickets, so the batter runs backwards and forwards.. That is the 20 second version of cricket, and there is probably someone with much more information than me about how the game works. It is also a big English past time, the Aussie bit is the beach! |
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