Ok, my turn.

Name: Alice, aka, AliceW or Alice in NJ

Home: Lumberton, NJ

Occupation: Manager of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs for a fairly
new startup biotech company. Big title for a company that has 12 employees!

Age: Soon to be 56 on 11-26. Presents can be sent to the addy in the
directory!

Past Lives: Toll taker at a state park, cashier, in some sort of QA position
ever since.

Family: Happily married for almost 13 years now (as of 11-11-03 - for
presents, see "Age"), together for 15. Have DS, 32 in Florida, soon to give
me a DIL on 11-8; DD, 31 in Baltimore; my DH shares his DD, 20 and DS, 17
with me as well. Sweeties all! My mom, 85, lives in Florida and keeps me
hopping! FIL lives nearby and we see him frequently. All of my DHs family
live within 20 of each other. I have a sister nearby, but a brother in
Houston and another in VA Beach. Have a trip planned to see my brother in
Houston - say next October????!! Perhaps he can find a quilt show I can
visit while there.

Food: I prefer "people events with food present" over "food events with
people present". Just lost 42 pounds, eating right and loving it! But I do
love any kind of chocolate as long as it's dark. And the occasional jelly
doughnut.

QIs: Paisley, who will be 13 the day after my birthday (see "Age" for
details), a sweet-faced Wes; Kirby, a wild, Wes, who just turned 8 months
old and is fondly called "the devil dog"! He brought Paisley back from the
brink after our Brandy passed away a year ago. Two cats, Scraps - left by
my son after he moved to Florida, and Gypsy, who found her way into our
garage and our hearts. Pix of all are on my website.

Machines: in order of purchase - Singer Futura, 1972, still works like a
charm. Pfaff 7570 which I use 99% of the time; a 1948 Featherweight in
pristine condition bought on eBay; a redhead treadle which I have not done
anything with yet; and a Singer 1952 in a cabinet that was my MILs. My FIL
thought I should have it - and that was the best day I ever had! I also
have a new Brother espree embroidery machine which I have no time to use,
unfortunately!

Quilting For: Almost 7 years now. A coworker wanted company for a quilting
class and the rest is history.

Quilt Assembly Preference: Rotary cut and strip pieced. Anytime I can sew
first and cut later is good for me. I have tried it all, though. Don't
particularly like appliqué, but I'm getting better at hand-piecing. I'm
better at MQ, but would like to get comfortable with HQ. I have a wonderful
lady that does beautiful machine quilting on a long arm which I use when I
make anything larger than a lap quilt.

Quilt Style Preference: Depends on the occasion, but I prefer quick quilts.
Appliqué is not one of my favorites, but I do have a Baltimore Album quilt
on my list of things to do.

Color preference: mostly everything, but I prefer purple, green, and
burgundy.

Skill level - I would think I'm an intermediate intermediate.

Posting/Reading Frequency: I started posting in September of 1997 and
haven't stopped since. I read and post every day - even on vacation. You
have to keep up or you won't find out about the stash raids!

Interests other than quilting/fabric fondling/S.E.X: rubber stamping,
keeping up with my web hosting side business, walking with my DH and pups,
vacationing in Cape Hatteras, climbing any lighthouse I come across.

Pet peeves: the imbalance with our welfare system and our elder care system
(folks - with their 3 or 4 little kids - ahead of me in the grocery line
wearing more gold than I would ever afford and paying with food stamps
and/or welfare checks, while some elderly go without food so they can pay
for their prescriptions, or only take their meds every other day so they
last longer); folks who throw cigarette buts out their car window thinking
they are not littering; people who chain their dogs to trees or pen them up
in chain link pens in the back yard - why get a dog?; puppy mills and the
people who run them and the people who buy from them; people who complain
about the way government runs things but are not registered to vote or are,
but don't bother voting.

TV Shows: Law and Order, CSI; All my Children; Mysterious Ways; Survivor.

Drive A: 2003 Honda CRV, black.

Favorite Quote: Well, it's not really a quote, but it's a saying on a
plaque that my husband bought right before we were married. It contains 12
rules for a good marriage. It's rather tongue-in-cheek, but makes rather
good sense. My favorite is number 4 - "Don't yell at each other unless the
house is on fire".

--
Alice in NJ
www.ourcyberfamily.us
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
John Churton Collins




"Renee Clark" wrote in message
...
While googling trying to learn more about our Mesue (wish I had a chance
to
get to know her), I came across a thread from 2000 in which RCTQ'ers
introduced themselves in detail. I've come on board since then (September
of
'02), and I'm sure many others have too. Might be worth doing again for
the
sake of those who are a bit newer. I'll go first, in the hope that some of
you will follow suit.
Blessings
Renee
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Name: Renee Clark

Home: Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

Occupation: Baptist minister

Age: 26

Past Lives:university student with some odd summer jobs, including frozen
novelties distributor (Dickie Dee biker!), special needs inclusion worker,
alzheimer's support, retail... Anything to pay for that English Lit
degree!
Anthing more to pay for the Masters!

Family: Single. Mom's about 5 hours from here, Dad died this past
February.
DSis and BIL (and DNephew, age 12), B and SisIL and all the respective
QI's.

Food:Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Also Pepsi, vanilla ice cream,
cheesecake, and turkey dinner - but not all at once.

QI's: Paisley (9 y.o. terrier mix), Simon and Sonny (1 y.o brother cats),
Mr. Fish (as the name implies!).

Machine(s): Kenmore bare-bones basic, a floor model I bought about 7 years
ago. No bells or whistles, but a good workhorse. Tempted by a serger, but
haven't bitten yet.

Quilting For: About 3 years. I took a class at the local fabric store
because they had a kittycat quilt on display... and caught quilt disease.

Quilt Assembly Preference: rotary cut (if it can't be rotary cut, I ain't
interested! LOL!), machine pieced, then either machine QITD, or sent out
to
be hand-quilted. Haven't mastered FMQ.

Quilt Style Preference: ABA - anything but APPLIQUE!

Colour Preference:rose, green, cream, Thimbleberries prints

Skill level: I call myself an 'advanced beginner'.

Posting/Reading frequency: Read almost daily, post roughly weekly.

Interests other than quilting/fabric fondling/S.E.X.: Reading (magazines,
novels, mystery, how-to), animal rescue, cross-stitch, tole painting,
Celtic
music, digital photography, exploring little side-roads, spending time
with
friends, bargain-hunting.

Pet Peeves: Laws that are soft on those who mistreat children and
animals -
we have to have a license to drive a car and a permit to build a shed in
the
backyard, but anyone who is biologically able can have a child and anyone
with a few dollars can walk out of a pet store with an animal. Oh, and
there
are also those people who chatter away in the movie theatre and sneak
through the express checkout with more than 10 items. But it's the creeps
who hurt their children and pets that really get me.

TV Shows: ER, 7th Heaven, Sugar, old reruns of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
and
80's sitcoms.

Drive A: 1994 Eagle Summit Wagon (a mini-mini-van!)

Favorite Quote:"If I can stop one heart from breaking / I shall not live
in
vain. / If I can ease one life the aching / Or cool one pain / Or help one
fainting robin / Unto his nest again, / I shall not live in vain." - Emily
Dickinson