Hi all! Been a busy weekend - altho dh took me out to eat Friday night and mmmmm was that good. We were such piggies we even split a fried ice cream for dessert! Went with a couple of friends to VIP at one lqs yesterday morning - lots of new fun stuff out - so much cool embroidery things, but I don't have an embroidery machine. I would love to have one - maybe once these weddings are done, I can start saving for one. Stopped at another lqs on the way home to pick up my BOM block and have that put together. I got a lap quilt layered yesterday afternoon too, caught up laundry and did a little picking up. After talking to dd2 this noon, dh decided to go pick her up for spring break this evening instead of tomorrow. She had to work at the newspaper yesterday and this afternoon, but the cafeteria and most of the other food places closed Friday. Now even the vending machines are off and the poor kid is swiping food from her roommate - which we'll replace. It's snow there tho and dh said the last 35 miles were not fun - lots of vehicles in the ditch - she's 3 hours from us - in good weather and good traffic around the Twin Cities. I've been working on cleaning out files this afternoon. Got thru the "major purchases" file and it's now half the size it was. Guess I don't need the receipts for items we no longer have! I was talking to my mom at the time and we were having a good laugh at some of them - like the random Arby's receipt - must have been stuck to another one. I still have a drawer of Christmas cards, one of old bank statements and one of 5 years of cross stitich magazines to clean out. I'd like to find a home for the magazines. Boy the shredder is gonna be humming. It really does feel good to purge the things that need to be purged. I have a lot of "stuff" needing to be purged too and that's coming along slowly.

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Margo wrote: I will second the motion to venture out of the Playground. It is less intimidating if you go to Board Index and then go to View New Posts rather than look at the many sections and say "overload." From there I pick and choose my topics. I have gathered new ideas already just by that little venture and a fresh zest.

Mary, you are welcome to venture out of the QYW playground! There is lots of great stuff to explore, and be a part of on the TQS site!
Welcome!

I'm glad to be flying free too! It's a lot more fun to talk to people I feel I know than to sit in the corner in the dark with my mouth full of words I want to share! All of you have inspired me and I've learned a lot from evesdropping (sp?) vut I will be more vocal in the future! xoxo Mary

Hope Moni figures out where some of us have gone and posts again. I spent most of last evening "frogging". I'm making swap blocks and I've made 4 or 5 so far with no problems at all. This one is a mystery. I've double checked and all pieces were cut correctly and sewn with scant 1/4". Good quality fabric, no stretching, starched lightly. I've taken it apart, several times, and in several areas, all to no avail. Now it's "overworked" so time to cut new fabric and start over. Isn't it disappointing when we discover we are not perfect, LOL! Rain expected later today/overnight ~ perfect quilting weather.....

birdred (Mary), glad you decided to fly out in public and join us here!

I have to say I miss Moni. This is a fun site, I'm learning a lot and really enjoy finding old friends from QYW as they seep into this group...

Yup--it certainly was Moni with the frog and I thought of her when I made the comment about frogging.

I remember now that Moni from QYW used a frog as her avitar and said...rip it--rip it. I did a lot of lurking on that site and made a decision to participate in this one and it's turning out to be FUN!

I have to do some frogging tonight caused by a machine quilting design plan change. Fortunately it's not a lot. Unfortunately, what there is is will involve both the surgical ripper and then the hemostat. This happened during my tension fight. This is serious surgery! LOL I have the new design already sketched in another block. Wonders of wonders, my design gods gave me the design before I stabbed the needle in the quilt which is how it usually works.

Those of us who meandered over from QYW used a lot of "shorthand" for projects. Yup, WH is wall hanging. TR is table runner. Frogging was another of our terms. I'll see if I can share the whole list with you here.

All this time I've been frogging when I thought i was "un-sewing"!!! I'm an expert Frogger! Thanks. Just got home and will go in the dungeon and begin a little work on my latest project and try to keep the frogs out of the room!

birdred wrote: Okay, wallhanging works for me.
Thanks!

birdred wrote:

Have you ever used a seam ripper to remove stitches? "Rip-it" "Rip-it" Like a frog!

For those of you who work on a long arm and have to frog a large area, you might be interested in "Skinning" a quilt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6egUsZvWu4

My pea brain thinks WH is "wall hanging"...that's how I interpreted it. My question is, what is frogging? I've never heard that term before.