Time for another Roll Call?

Well heck! I thought everybody knew it was just a bit east of me!

NightMist
in WNY


On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:44:10 -0500, "Polly Esther"
wrote:

Thanks, Amy. I've wondered a long time where CNY might be. And as to the
grape vines, our neighbor has trained his to grow waaaay up high. It seems
the wascally wabbits are wine-o's. Polly


"amy in CNY" wrote Hi, I'm Amy.~~~~waving to all~~~~ Living large in
Central New York.
Single mom of 2. DS is 27 and engaged to a wonderful gal. They live
near Los Angeles. My DD, 21, lives at home with me. She's my light and
laughter. I've been quilting, sewing, needlepoint and embroidering
since I was a wee-gal of 9 or 10. My dear Granny taught us girls to
quilt. She was the best. I own my own home and have been at the same
job for 16+ yrs. in healthcare (office mgr).
I do sew on a button now and then, and even have done wedding garments
in the past, but no more. Too demanding.
Other than this post, I am notorious for not capitalizing any letters
and use waaayyy too many !!!!!!!'s.
My dear QI, Crikit, passed over the Rainbow Bridge last October. I
miss her dearly. She was the best dog a girl could have. I love
horses, but don't own one, and gardening. I am planting new grape
vines this year, see what happens with that.
My UFO's are too numerous to mention the total, but, I have started to
finish a few, my goal is to finish most of them by year's end. Yes, I
am an optimist!

Next??

amy in CNY




--

Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister.

NOT retired, working full time, living in the state of Washington in the US.
(We're on the upper left corner of the "lower 48" states. I'm married (DH
collects various things: union labels and comics. He's a terrific
geneologist too.) 3 boys, 22, 18 and 13. Two QI cats, Pepper (white) and
Jasper (gray and white) and the dog, Meeko--a German Shepherd who is very
gentle. Oh, there is the bird too.

I came from a quilting family so learned many things from my grandmother,
mothers and aunts. I like to make great big bed quilts. I like to think of
quilts as the arms of the maker surrounding the recipient.

I've got way too many things started. I need to finish some. Most of them
only need a border then quilting. I need to send them off for quilting. My
stash is disorganized but very pretty......

I love quilting and the quilting community.

LenoreL95

Hi All -- I am Sherry from Oklahoma and also in early medical-forced
retirement.
I always wanted to learn to quilt, and when I finally got the time, I
did. Mostly
self-taught, internet-taught, and pestering-rctq-members-taught. I
took one class.
I still learn something every time I make a quilt.
I am on the board of directors for our county humane society, and am a
real
animal lover; canine, feline, bovine, wildlife. I am a recluse and
live in Nowheresville
with no neighbors. I have two children; one of them is a FedEx
delivery guy, who hates
it when I order batting because "it doesn't stack in the truck." I
have a daughter
who is a nurse and expecting our first grandchild in September. And a
great son-in-law,
also a nurse.
Until I made that first quilt and got hooked, I used to sew doll
clothes for the local Toy
Shop Childrens' Christmas charity.
I have five cats and three vacuum cleaners. I don't know why I'm even
telling you
about the vacuum cleaners except the five cats-part seems to startle
people and I
don't want you good folks thinking my whole house looks like mohair.
I'm on it. :-)
I like to read, internet-shop and garden.
Love the group, and appreciate the help through the last few years.

Sherry


On Apr 23, 11:53*am, Sally Swindells
wrote:
Following the discussions on who everyone is, it might be time for
another Roll Call.

So here goes.

Retired 9 years ago to the Suffolk coast in Eastern England so am of
advanced years!!

Two grown up children, neither still at home. Richard 35 this year has
lived with his girlfriend and her three children for 6 years so it seems
pretty permanent. He works in computers (thank goodness!). Rachel is 39
this year and lives with her husband Tim, an airline pilot, in central
England. Tim recently got a job flying out of Leipzig, German, so they
may move, but who knows.

DH Mike is into ornithology in a big way - watches birds, rings birds
for migration stats, does conservation work,etc., so I am left to
stitch, and garden. Garden is about to enter its completely weed free
week (wont last!) so perhaps next week I can sew!

QI Inspector No 1 is Hodge who is a 12 year old white cat with a grey
tabby mask, hat, cloak and tail. He is assisted by his side-kick Mia who
is black and white and almost three - a nervious little thing, but in
love with Hodge. Mia isn't really interested in quilts though. Mia's
brother Kiwi shows great promise in the inspecting line. He was supposed
to be all black, hence his name (the New Zealanders will understand).
However, he is a bit of a clown so in the winter grows a long very
fluffy brownish fringe around his body, a big mane like a lion and an
enormous tail. He retains his pitch black face and legs though! In the
summer he loses the extra coat all over my creamy carpet and becomes
almost short-haired.

Have sewed for ever, lots of embroidery, but only started quilting
when my sister died and left me her board, rotary cutter, lots of bits
and pieces and small stash. She only had one or two bits unfinished
but I thought I would learn to use the board and cutter so I could
finish her things properly. However.... the stash has grown and so has
the pile of UFOs - and I seldom embroider!

Webshots is fairly up-to-date as I am behind as usual so had little to
add. The Starry Night top is there from Jessamy's swap. - where are you
Jessamy, we miss you. Piccies are in the Finished album - so I'd better
finish them!

Chocolate - officially nil as I am dieting, and as I couldn't go to
weigh-in this morning better make sure I take a bit off for next week.
Unofficially taste has changed to dark chocolate with age, but anything
will do!

Punctuation - use far too many exclamation marks!!!

So .. who's next?

--
Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ukhttp://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin

On Apr 24, 11:53*pm, (NightMist) wrote:
Well heck! I thought everybody knew it was just a bit east of me!

NightMist
in WNY

Egad, I'm surrounded.

Hi, I'm Elly... another Brit, and English woman living on the north
coast of Scotland and on a clear day I can see the Orkney Islands
just.

Like a few others I mainly lurk but pop in from time to time with a
few lines.

I'm retired, been married for 30 years come October this year and
have two kids 19 (DD and 22 (DS)
I've been quilting for just over 10 years. I'm making (very slowly)
the DJ quilt and have several others on the to-do list,
And have several WIPs on the go.
My little house group the KKQs are having an exhibition in August so
I'm trying to get somethings finished for then but it's going slowly
too)
I love applique work and reproduction and folk art stuff too.
Favourite quilters :- Jo Morton, Kim Diehl, Sue Spargo... just to name
a few so you get the idea of the type of quilting I like.

Have 3 rabbits and 1 guinea pig (though technically at least one
rabbit and the GP belong to DD)

I like white and milk Lindt chocolate, not so keen on the dark stuff.

My favourite colour is red but lately it is turning more to
pink.... ?? My least favourite is green.
But generally I like most colours to an extent.

Errr now I'm stuck... how did everyone else manage to write a long
post??
As you can tell I too like to use a lot of exclamation marks... maybe
it's the Spanish blood I have in me )

I'm not a sporty person (if you saw me you'd be able to tell that
G)
However, if I had to watch any sport on tv for whatever insane reason
it'd be SumoG

I guess that's me... I live a very quiet and sheltered life so there's
not a lot more to tell G

hugs
Elly

Normally, I don't add my tuppence to these threads because I am so
"talkative" in my regular posts. But, what-the hey -- here goes. I'm
in my early 60's, been with DH (my second one) for over 37 years. One
DD who is 42, married with my only DGD (Raechel) who is soon to be six.
We live north of Atlanta (AKA Magnoliaville) and have been here a bit
over 9 years. When DH retires we will move back to Lizard Land (AKA AZ)
and live in the small "joint town" of Heber/Overgaard in the White
MOuntains north-east of Phoenix on the Mogollon Rim. We currently have
3 once female but now neutered cat babies, but only one is a true QI as
the other two have only been with us since mid-January.
Hobbies and work -- I have been a machine quilter for over 30 years
and make everything from baby quilts to huge monster quilts. I don't
like to make quilt blocks with lots of little pieces so a 6" nine patch
is about small as I will work and then only if absolutely necessary for
something like a Hug Quilt. I am a professional seamstress and have
worked on just about anything that will fit through the sewing machine
:-). Yes, I have made wedding gowns and men's suits and NO I don't do
that anymore. I can knit just a teensy bit and crochet a bit more than
that. For handwork, I do any and all types of needlework -- hardanger,
pulled thread, drawn thread, counted work, cross stitch, needlepoint,
and all types of general surface embroidery. I am a model stitcher and
actually get paid to do needlework :-).
I HATE gardening (I really, Really, REALLY DO NOT like it) and just
about anything involved with a yard and garden. Unfortunately for me, I
like having a pretty yard to look at so I work in the dirt a lot. I
don't like it but I do it! I am a voracious reader of just about any
sort of fiction except what I call "quickie stories". I am enthralled
by the Outlander series (Diana Gabaldon) and have read the books about
five time in the last 2 1/2 years.
I do have a college degree (B.S. in Organizational & InterCultural
Communication) and worked in that field for just a bit. DH and I love
to travel and I have been fortunate enough to be able to go many
wonderful places over the years we have been married. I have visited
such exotic places (for me anyway) as Tahiti, Japan and The Czech
Republic. Less exotic holidays but equally memorable are trips to
Ireland, Germany, the US Virgin Islands and four Caribbean Cruises.
When we lived in Lizard Land, we went to Hawaii thirteen times and have
made another trip there since moving to the East Coast! Next year we
hope to go to Scotland and also make another trip to Ireland. I guess
you could say we like to travel.
So -- that's about it. OH -- I just finished taking a weaving class
and am taking a class today on how to dye silk! I like to learn new
stuff so continue to take special interest classes. Now, I really have
gone on long enough. I am a "yapper" and I freely admit it -- LOLOL!
But then, I'm Irish (almost 100%) so what else could you expect?!?!?
CiaoMeow ^;;^

PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
their whiskers!
Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary

I got tired just reading all that! How do you find the time?

Judy from Mass

CiaoMeow ^;;^

PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ * (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
their whiskers!
Visit my Photo albums at *http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary

In article ,
Tia Mary wrote:

When DH retires we will move back to Lizard Land (AKA AZ)
and live in the small "joint town" of Heber/Overgaard in the White
MOuntains north-east of Phoenix on the Mogollon Rim.


Small world, TM! My soon-to-be ex-sonIL's father lives in Heber since
his retirement!

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:06:41 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Apr 24, 11:53=A0pm, (NightMist) wrote:
Well heck! I thought everybody knew it was just a bit east of me!

NightMist
in WNY

Egad, I'm surrounded.

Now you can feel secure in the knowledge that if you ever go on
vacation there are plenty of us who can easily pop into your sewing
room and check your stash for moths.
We are just considerate like that.
Got batiks?

NightMist
--

Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister.

I'm a bit of a lurker too. Mostly I read the posts and add my two
cents when I think I can contribute something different, but there are
so many people here that jave such a fund of knowledge that it's rare
that I can.

I'm from SE PA near Philadelphia and have been sewing since I been
knee high, but only quilting in for the past 5 years or so. Mostly I
prefer traditional quilts with a twist. At the moment I'm trying to
teach myself the finer points of machine quilting but I have a looong
way to go yet.

I've got a wonderful DH who doesn't complain in the least when I
indulge my passion for fabric or takeover all the available space for
my projects, a teenage DS who thinks everything I make is wonderful
and an aging QI of the black labrador variety whose shedding I'm
constantly waging war against.

Diana H - Gulph Mills, PA

On Apr 23, 12:53*pm, Sally Swindells
wrote:
Following the discussions on who everyone is, it might be time for
another Roll Call.