Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now. He caught himself a mouse. He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly. Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all about it...

I just read the posts under breast cancer/OT and I can't thank you for the support. Today my husband and I went to see the surgeon. We layed all the cards out...this cancer is very agreesive. I did mention to him I worked in at a very popular manufacturing plant years ago and it's still in...

NO Gators will be fed in this thread: ) Got the last Vampire report : ) Can cut the Potassium dosage in half!!!!!! WBC seems to stabilize--still 'high' but NOT bouncing like it had been : )YAY!!!!!!!!! And the sun is shining Butterfly

I am a quilter and it is really important to me. I am also a 50 year old woman who has had severe RA (rheumatoid Arthritis) for 13 years with an added complication of neurological damage and pain on my right side for the past 3 years (a side effect of one of my meds.) I quilt as much as I can...

In November I went off to a sewing retreat and had a great time. At the end of March I went on another and had a great time...one problem, I couldn't find my legs! To my acrylic sewing table! I searched high and low and could not find those puppies. Now I'm getting ready to go on another...

Running a bit late with the Directory the year but I've been running late for about the last 6 months so this is nothing new. Let's get through the holidays and then I will open the Directory form for a few weeks. We should have the Directory done by the end of February -God willing and the...

I really don't know when or if I will ever be able to adopt a kitty. Our beloved Sweet Pea died of Addison's Disease more than a year ago and it was such a hard time for all of us. But - assuming we take a deep breath and dive in, what do you suggest? Our local newspaper bombards us with...

If you were to choose just one quilting book for a present to yourself, which would it be? The way I get "just what I've always wanted" is exactly that - I get it. Just wondering if there's a special new quilting book out there that you have found that is a "gotta have". Since there are now...

I once again find myself in a fix. I started a quilt back in April before I was hurt I had the top finished, it just needed to be pined and quilted. Today I got to pin the scrappy quilt ( its about twin size, or just a bit smaller) I took it to the sewing machine, and started quilting it ( with...

I'm having a problem with my keyboard going dead. If I reboot the computer, it will work again....maybe for days or maybe just for a few hours or minutes. I have NO idea what could cause this. DS bought me a new keyboard after the first one went bad.....(but maybe it was only as "bad" as the...

Today I won a quilt at a church raffle. It is an embroidered quilt. The fabric was purchased with the blue dots for the embroidery and for the hand quilting stitching. The maker finished the quilt and did not remove the blue dots. She may even have pressed the quilt top. In any case, the quilt...

I'm doing backflips over the fact that Houston Comcast and Earthlink have now gotten my news server back up. I don't like that I am back in Outlook Express, but maybe it won't be too long until I can use Thunderbird again. Hugs to those who have needed them, cheers and happy dances to those who...

It occurred to me today (while I had a house full of visitors) that it might be really intimidating for a person to introduce themselves into a room full of strangers at a social event and that usually the hostess would do some intro's and make sure that the person is looked after and happy. In a...

The quilt isn't a mini...lol. In fact, it's a good size snuggle quilt, and long overdue. My friend Honey has been bugging me to make her a quilt for almost two years now, so this is what I'm doing for her birthday... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jalynne29/my_photos click on quilts, there's only...

Hello, I am trying to find a 'threading diagram' for my machine, an American Rotary model # R40. A friend gave it to me a few years back and I never checked it to see if it worked until now. All I found in the cabinet were some bobbins but no instructions on how to thread it or how to advance the...

Hi all I need some help deciding on colours for a quilt... if you could choose 3 colours & a background to express a season (not a holiday theme) which colours would you choose for: * spring *summer *autumn *winter

Hello! I own an Elna 6003 Quilters Dream sewing machine. My sewing table is nothing more than a flat desk with the SM sitting on top. I've always had difficulty with free-motion quilting, so I've decided to take another class. One of my not-so-local QS recommends the use of an extension table...

Down in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Boudreaux gets a job with BP helping with the oil spill cleanup. He reports for work and is told to speak to a supervisor about his assignment. He finds the man and asks, "What it is I supposed to do?" The supervisor tells him to go to the animal shelter and...

I had a 50% off coupon that was expiring on the 3rd so I went in that day. They had some fabric that I wanted on sale. But when I gave the coupon to the girl cutting the fabric she rang it up at regular price and said that with a coupon it automatically prices at regular price, that I can't get...

Fons & Porter has a Halloween jack o'lantern pattern called Happy Jack. It was in their magazine in Sep 1999. I know I have this magazine, but I can't find it. Does anybody know if the pattern is available either seperately or in a book? I can get the back issue of the magazine, but I was wondering...