Hi Lynn, I an NOT going to miss your one in September so we have a date then, right!!??!! I'll txt you later about your days there.

As well as a couple of meetings that have come up, daughter was rushed to hospital late Monday with terrible sickness. She's home again now but they are still testing her and she is still 200 miles away and I want to be able to go to her if I have to.

Yes I did buy a frame and it's still in the box. One day it will grace (haha) the spare room and I can have a play. I'd better get making some bigger stuff! :shock:

I hope you all enjoy FoQ. ( )

Hey Amanda
Shame you can't come to FoQ, was looking forward to meeting up with you! Still, I will do your retail therapy for you! Hows the bernina going and the grace, I did read it right didn't I??? you did buy a frame? So perhaps its wise you not going, poor dh will be bankrupt if you did!!! I see you have posted a new pic on your profile, I was thinking of doing the same, now where are those 20yr old photos!!
Best wishes
Lynn

Oh dear, it's such a shame you won't be going to FoQ, but I agree with you about Winchester. Last time I was there we had a lovely lunch overlooking the cathedral.

We went car-hunting at the weekend and in the end decided to stay with what we've got.

Hi UKy peeps!! How are we all?

I had a good day on Saturday in Winchester. It was the Wessex Quilters 30 year show and good it was too! Also a wander around Winchester is always worth it. I love old towns (even our original capital town!) and just absorb their atmosphere!

I hope you all go to the FoQ! I have a few hitches keeping me away this year but perhaps next will be the one so don't buy all the fabric!!

Welcome Teresa, I've also enjoyed reading through your blog. What are you planning to do with the green fabrics? I love green

Hello Theresa, nice to have you with us.

Theresa, Welcome to TQS. Pam

Glad you found this bit Theresa. You have a great web page by the way!!

Welcome Theresa! Nice to meet you!

Lorchen

Just popped in to say hello to fellow UK Quilters I stumbled across this fabulous website last week and am amazed at the wonderful amount of information available.

Lynn, got your number! I'll send you mine. Expect a call around lunchtime. I'll have around half an hour between two workshops.

Della, oh dear, it was THAT quilt. I'm glad it's ok. I love it when fabrics from friends or other projects find their way into a quilt. It must be well over three years ago when I managed to snatch a left over piece of drop-dead-gorgeous batik from my friend Brenda. Somehow, little bits of this small piece have found their way into at least half a dozen projects (one of them a fibre postcard that sold for $45 in aid of breast cancer research in the the US). I now only have one 3x3 square of it left....... I wonder if I should frame it, rather than use it.

Lorchen

Glad you spotted the museum link, as for the FoQ, our coach gets in around 11.30, well year before last it did, so I am hoping that even if some of you ladies are in workshops, you can give me a call when you nip out for a loo break! I can lurk by the loos!! But seriously, I will email my mobile number to those who email address I have, and perhaps you could pass it on. I was going to post it here, then thought, you never know who could log on and view!!!!

Lynn

You know, I sat there trying to do the same sort of calculation. The quilt was a scrap quilt; apart from the borders and backing there was very little outlay in fabric, but it was very much a memory quilt. I scrounged fabric from quilting friends and many of the fabrics I'd used in other older quilts were there, including some from the first one I ever made way back in 1993. The quilt was also professionally longarm quilted by Dianne Watson in Scotland. Then there was the cost in hours of my labour. I couldn't, as you say, put a value on it (there's a whole other debate) but if I'd tried, oh gosh, the maintenance man's eyes would have popped!

What really made me laugh, was that after he'd finished apologising (and he was a real sweetie) he offered to put it through the drier for nothing as compensation. Of course, I very politely declined ...

Good grief!! I'd have been having kittens! :shock:

Thought: If you had lots of photos and documentation of making it, would their insurance have covered it let alone paid out the full price value and would you have known, other than the price of the fabric, how much these things are worth in woman/man hours? I know heart value is priceless but...! :

Back to the show, perhaps we can go on an aftenoon when Lynn is there and have a mini meet up.