Thanks Lorna. I hope the task is not too onerous! You both have a lot to do what with sorting, packing, labeling, weighing, stamping and taking them to the post office. I do hope you get some time to enjoy yourselves too and thanks again for doing this for everybody. Don't forget your camera, and to use it and post photos here. Have a great weekend.

Thanks for the update, Lorna.
Yahoo!!! Yahoo!!!
I'm sure you will enjoy your visit with Rosemary and at the quilt museum. Have a safe drive.
Lori

Rita, I'm glad you asked.

Tomorrow, Friday, after I get off work, my DH and I will make the 3 hour drive up to North Cave, UK near York to visit with Rosemary and her family. We'll be quite busy the next two days, merging our two sorted piles, packing envelopes for mailing and of course visiting the quilt museum!

It will be a blast and I am really looking forward to the weekend.

Lorna

Rosemary and Lorna, when are you two getting together? I know that it was mentioned somewhere on this exchange but as there are 89 pages....and my memory is not what it used to be

Jane I hope you are feeling better by now - flu is so terrible.

Lori, tell your DH that the brack has no fat in it so it's not that bad for you - eaten in moderation (that's the problem!)

Millboroquilter wrote:
Thanks, Bren, for the get well wishes...hope to goodness this doesn't last that long!! What a cute little bag for your GD's b'day. Don't know how you do it, what with calving and cooking and all the chores on a cattle ranch. My grandparents had one in Stevensville, MT and I used to spend every summer from the time I was 10, helping with harvest, and a couple of school years with them and loved it. But, its darned hard labor too.

Still don't know what to do with my spools. Finally took the papers off my HSTs after writing names and locations on the front--kind of like a friendship signature quilt would have, and ironed them all. Think I want to combine them into one quilt but need to figure the layout. I sure do enjoy these exchanges

I have been working on how I want to make my spools, I have the fabric for the background,
still trying to figure what I am going to use for the spool top and bottom.

Will see what I come up with.

Margarita

Man, a tornadoes last night only about 40 miles from the ranch but the wind was wild all day yesterday! Glad it is gone now. More baby calves... about half done now. YIPPI! Still working on my borders for the spool quilt in the book. Lotti, I hope you don’t hit a late Chicago last minute snow storm... Safe travels... Jane I feel for ya girl. I had the flue for 3 weeks and I am still tired . Get Well soon quilt sister! I finally used up some of my scraps/salvages, cute little bag for grand daughters birthday. Tomorrow I will attack my borders for the soon to be here spools!

Aw Lotti, doesn't sound like you will have any time to slide down to Cincinnati Ohio. A friend and I are going to the quilt show there April 13 - 15. We are from Pennsylvania, but have been to Nashville, Paducah, Houston and several others on the east coast. We are also trying the one in Cincinnati this year. Anybody else going to Cincinnati???? Let me know and maybe we can meet up at some point. We are arriving Noon time on April 12 and leaving morning April 16.
Lori

Have great travels, Lotti ! And don't forget the sunscreen ! as it looks like Chicago and the North East
is havin' a heat wave ! Keep us posted when you can..

I made Rita's Irish Tea Brack Saturday morning (soaked the raisins Friday night). My DH who is trying to watch what he eats (kind of like see food - what ever he sees he eats ) told me that I have to give this brack away to our sons because it is soooooo good. My one son actually said if dad says it is good it is probably not good but he just wants us to eat it. I said NO that he wants you to eat it so HE doesn't. Truly it is really good. Thanks again for the recipe.
Not sure who it was a few posts back said they were not a part of the exchange, but wanted to respond

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well the more the merrier. Glad you joined the chatter even if you aren't part of the exchange. Happy to hear from you
Lori

Had company and the flu the past couple of weeks, and haven't received any updates on the forum during that time so figured it was time to catch up Good grief, ladies, pages and pages of great ideas and happenings. Congratulations on the birth of the new baby girl, and upcoming baby boy (booties are SO cute).

Rita and Rosemary--you two are doing in my 3 days of aerobics--just hope the exercise evens out what I'm about to bake and eat. I, too, cannot stand anything that is sour, including anything that has to do with rhubarb...don't know why, just doesn't sit well in my mouth so out it comes. Very glad for King Arthur Flour too. Am finally finding just the white and wheat flours in the grocery here in AZ so order from them online sometimes. Need to go to that room that came with the house and heat some soup--flu hasn't gone entirely and that's the only thing that even sounds reasonable.

Thank you, ladies, for this wonderful forum. Can't read anymore from Rita or Rosemary and they make me laugh which is bringing on coughing fits and tears running down my face

lotti wrote:
I'm glad to see you got the important stuff done

Have a wonderful, productive trip, Lotti! I lived in downtown Chicago for years and miss it a lot. The Field Museum, Art Institute, Adler Planetarium etc. were weekend hang outs! I've never been to Hong Kong (or Zurich either, for that matter) but it all sounds exciting!