Bren, Thanks for letting us know about what is happening in your part of the world. My heart aches and my head fears for your safety. Take care. I am praying for rain and for your safety.

Will be thinkin' of you....We have a lot of fire season yet to go !

Bren, I hope for your safety and that of your husband and all the folks who are braving this. You will be in my thoughts. Thanks for letting us know.

Hi everyone its Bren here... I have a very heavy heart and sadness within myself as I write to you, I’m wiped out, tired and sick from worry. We need your prayers. We have had a terrible drought and now my area country is on fire... there are 3 Huge fires that together have burned nearly 100,000 acres (they have been burning for many days now), today we thought all was under control and many fighters have gone home... but the wind has come up very strong and blowing to the south for this moment... this fire is in the Niobrara NE, river canyons and when it comes out of the river breaks it races about 60 mph across the praries... All 3 fires where started by lightning but several ranchers have lost their homes, their hay piles to feed their cattle over the winter, there have been hundreds of head of cattle moved from the area with really no place to take them because of the drought. there were 30 fire departments here with over 300 fire fighters and who know how many farmers and ranchers fighting the fire... They even have fighters called hot shots from California here fighting these fires…We are praying for a lot of rain and no winds if that is Gods will... Several of our friends had to evacuate and lost their places... There are also fires west of us on the Rosebud Indian reservation.. so if the winds switch from the south to the north or from the west to the east we might be next... I will add a few links you can see photos of fires and please no need to comment to this post as I have not had time to check it... DH has been fighting fire for days now… one morning he left at 8 a.m. and at midnight I called him and he said he didn’t know if her would get home that night… he did he got home the next morning at 5 a.m. and then left again at 10 a.m. only 5 hours later. He is so tired and worried and our crops are dieing from no rains so he needs to get the corn cut into a silage pile as that is all it is good for now… but it is hard to do his own work when he is fighting fire trying to keep it from coming into SD... God Bless our fire fighters our neighbors and volunteers and the air planes.. we have several helicopters and big tanker planes and even spray crop planes dropping water to help save feed, homes and such... here are some of the links...
I am constantly on watch, if a fire starts out here with the wind it is a matter of seconds if you can get out let along get out with any of your property…
I am keeping a truck fueled and trailer hooked on and ready to go parked close to the front door and ready to load horses and a few personal items to get out… I pray this doesn’t happen…
Everyone stay safe, I love ya all and please take care of each other! Bren

http://odc.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=5002&p=3787#photo-showcase-fairfield-creek-fires-aerials

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/24/12926141-nebraska-wildfire-burns-over-50000-acres?lite

http://cdn04b.castfire.com/media/flash/castfire_v3.swf?file=http://serve.castfire.com/video/1080946/1080946_2012-07-24-095746.1323.m4v&sh_id=1080946&guid=D8aEY&api=http://api.castfire.com/&image=http://serve.castfire.com/video/1080946/1080946_2012-07-24-095746.jpg&playlistthumbsize=65&backcolor=0x000000&frontcolor=0xFFFFFF&lightcolor=0xFF9900&menu=button&menu_position=horizontal_bottom&hasdownload=false&haswebsite=false&hasrelated=false&hasshare=false&playlistbgcolor=0x000000&duration=0&iconspacefactor=1&item=0&moreselectedcolor=FF9900&volume=50&start=0&state=IDLE&stretching=uniform&version=4.1.56&rev=7956&relatedThumbSize=65&controlbar=bottom&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fp.castfire.com%252FD8aEY%252Fvideo%252F1080946%252F1080946_2012-07-24-095746.1323.m4v%26h%3DpAQFTALUgAQE2x6u9AGn1bIYgfIMi3gwGSvLvKI2gq8x_kA%26enc%3DAZOVtWiV9y8gSgAVuHRCY-_R3Nxy8P0eTFXrLBy5vsPBC6FLR4Wv4LH-C7QWQHh977Og8RuNIThkucm2JzCa4SlT

I have purchased my background fabrics and the backing for the quilt, but have not started it. My reels are in a bag somewhere in the sewing room. I will have to do a search. Right now I am trying to finish quilting a table cover for my DIL for Christmas--last Christmas. Life got in the way. I do want to start the reels soon. I also need to put new binding on a quilt I made for my son years ago. It's is nice to know they used it and like it, if they want a new binding. I am going to use Edyta's pattern for the reels. I don't want to design my own now. Brain not working too good now. Just life is so busy there is no time to think.

loise98 wrote:
LOL!!! I doubt I will be first! I have a full plate right now, but I'm really looking forward to seeing what others do!

loise98 wrote:
Sorry, Bren, I do remember that lovely quilt. Haven't heard from Bren in an age! Rita, you were early out of the gate too. Didn't mean to overlook you either

So, okay then, I bet I know who will be next.

HOTYRSLT Hats off to you running something like this

crocus999 wrote:
Bingo!

twiglet wrote:
Roflmao - rolling on (the) floor laughing my a** (donkey) off

Sot - Habitual drunkard; one stupid with drink (not something that puritans are particularly known for)

and anyway since I was running it I can call them whatever I fancy

Yes but it really does.

Rosemary have you had a tipple? Great names for your swaps but you're going to answer me in acronyms what is funny about SOTTT (signs of the times?) if its too rude you better message me

twiglet wrote: That was the whole intention, although because I call them a reel of thread - a spool is a different shape to my mind, and I was making sure that we didn't have any 'unfortunate' words coming from the title we became WOT ROTT for Winding on the Reels of Tangled Threads.

When Sisterhood of the Travelling Triangles was shortened to 'Sottt' by the member puritanpatcher, I couldn't help myself, I was completely Roflmao

Beautiful quilt Bren, they look like wooden spools with lovely threads wrapped round them

Bren, just went to Show and Tell and saw your wonderful "spool" quilt--you probably have it quilted by now... sorry I missed it back in April when you first posted it! Love the colors on the border as well as the background fabric.