discouraged & hunting some on- topic posts to be inspired?????????

Hi All,
I just signed on to read my daily RCTQ and was hoping to see some
topics about quilting to inspire me. I've been on this newsgroup for
about eight years and am finding it harder to find topics about
quilting here. There were just a few this morning to read.

I'm like the next person and think is all right to post some off
topic things, but it seems that there aren't too many on-topic threads
to read anymore. Nearly everything is off-topic ( it has reversed
itself and doesn't really feel like a quilting newsgroup anymore). Am I
mis-interpreting this? If I am, I'm sorry.

I've never left the newsgroup, but I seem to be deleting three
fourths of the messages. There just isn't enough time in the day to
read hundreds of messages about other topics. If I did that, I'd never
get any quilting done and wouldn't be living my life away from the
computer. grin As you all know from my postings ( and I've met a
lot of you personally at meet-ups and quilt shows) over the years, I
try to keep pretty busy and am in a lot of different quilting and
stitching groups.

Am I the only one feeling this way? Sorry if I'm wrong.


Kris ( in rainy, northern Virginia, heading to the sewing room to
finish putting the border on another quilt)

Irene,
I just try to read the on topic posts, except when I see that a
friend has posted something ( hi, Pat) and want to see what she's up
to, or if something else catches my eye.
I do use the delete button a lot. I just happened to notice that
out of about 120 new messages just now, only about twenty were on topic.
I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this change in the
newsggroup.

Kris ( in northern Virginia)



I don't. But then again I make good use of filters

Just like any other group of people getting togeter there are going to
be chats that veer off of the subject matter.

The majority of the posters who do an off-topic post mark their posts
with "OT" If you filter your newsreader to either delete or mark these
posts then you'll have less OT posts to read. Sometimes it's the same
people who post a lot of non=topic stuff and if these posts bother you,
you can filter in other ways such as "joke," "food," etc. you can even
filter on name.

Or, just don't read the posts with "OT" in the subject line, or if
they're not marked as such, ones that don't look like they have to do
with quilting.

The trick is to make the newsreader work for you, not against you

-Irene


--------------
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
--Mae West
--------------

Hi back at ya Kris!! So, what quilting projects do you have in
mind to start? Perhaps the fabric you bought in Fort Washington
will be the starting point for your next one! Tell us what you
bought and we will come up with clever suggestions. Besides
sending to me that is.
PAT in VA/USA

Kris Bishop wrote:


Irene,
I just try to read the on topic posts, except when I see that a
friend has posted something ( hi, Pat) and want to see what she's up
to, or if something else catches my eye.
I do use the delete button a lot. I just happened to notice that out
of about 120 new messages just now, only about twenty were on topic.
I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this change in the
newsggroup.

Kris ( in northern Virginia)

Pat,
I really didn't buy much fabric at Ft. Washington ( some hand
painted over hand dyed fabrics). I did buy a lot a few weekends ago,
when I went back to Lancaster,Pa with my niece and her husband. I
bought packets of fat quarters and border fabrics - to make two yellow
brick road quilts. In one, it's all red fat quarters, with a red and
forest green batik border. It will have forest green minke on the back.
The other set of fat quarters were ocean blues and greens. I bought a
great bluish green batik for that border and pale blue minke for the
backing. I did buy some other pieces of batik for not-yet-planned
projects.
I have the red quilt top finished, but might applique some forest
green minke pine trees on the front first ( in random places, to make
it look like a forest) grin

I just sent my "Journal Pages" quilts off to the Houston Quilt Show
and my "Koi Pond" wall hanging is in a special exhibit ( QuiltArt @
10 ) at the Houston show. Then they'll travel on to other places. My
local art quilt group is having another upcoming exhibit in Leesburg, VA
from Nov. 1st until Jan 1st , 2006. I turned in two pieces to go into
that exhibit. I did have a quilt in the Quilting at the Crossroads show
( in Flint Michigan) & the World Quilt Exhibit in New Hampshire
recently. Also, my local quilt guild is doing a fabric postcard swap
with a Roanoke, Va, guild. So, I'm making seven fabric postcards for
that swap.

I've also been busy with the three quilt guilds and four other
quilting/sewing groups that I belong to. I still try to get into the
city ( Washington DC) and see some of the museum exhibits. I went in
last Tuesday with a friend to be inspired. When will you be coming back
up again??? We need to chat over coffee soon.

Kris ( in northern Virginia, on my way to exercise and then get back
home and try to finish some projects up)




Pat in Virginia wrote:
Hi back at ya Kris!! So, what quilting projects do you have in mind to
start? Perhaps the fabric you bought in Fort Washington will be the
starting point for your next one! Tell us what you bought and we will
come up with clever suggestions. Besides sending to me that is.
PAT in VA/USA

Kris Bishop wrote:


Irene,
I just try to read the on topic posts, except when I see that a
friend has posted something ( hi, Pat) and want to see what she's
up to, or if something else catches my eye.
I do use the delete button a lot. I just happened to notice that
out of about 120 new messages just now, only about twenty were on
topic.
I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this change in the
newsggroup.

Kris ( in northern Virginia)

I agree with you Kris. In fact, I have posted only a few msgs. myself
in the last few months, mostly lurking. I realize there have been
major OT discussions that we can't get away from (Katrina etc.) which
helps 'heal' to talk about them but I do miss lots of quilty stuff
too! This may be a good thing as I can spend more time at my sewing
machine instead, but I do miss lots of quilty talk! :-)

Denise in Ontario, Canada


On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:58:26 -0400, Kris Bishop
wrote:


Irene,
I just try to read the on topic posts, except when I see that a
friend has posted something ( hi, Pat) and want to see what she's up
to, or if something else catches my eye.
I do use the delete button a lot. I just happened to notice that
out of about 120 new messages just now, only about twenty were on topic.
I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this change in the
newsggroup.

Kris ( in northern Virginia)



I don't. But then again I make good use of filters

Just like any other group of people getting togeter there are going to
be chats that veer off of the subject matter.

The majority of the posters who do an off-topic post mark their posts
with "OT" If you filter your newsreader to either delete or mark these
posts then you'll have less OT posts to read. Sometimes it's the same
people who post a lot of non=topic stuff and if these posts bother you,
you can filter in other ways such as "joke," "food," etc. you can even
filter on name.

Or, just don't read the posts with "OT" in the subject line, or if
they're not marked as such, ones that don't look like they have to do
with quilting.

The trick is to make the newsreader work for you, not against you

-Irene


--------------
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
--Mae West
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Kris, it goes in streaks (in my experience, anyway) and after a bit the
quilting posts will outnumber OT posts. Patience is the key. Have a great
day quilting, I wish I could join you!

--
Carolyn in The Old Pueblo

If it ain't broke, you aren't trying. --Red Green
If it ain't broke, it ain't mine. --Carolyn McCarty

If at first you don't succeed, switch to power tools --Red Green
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. --Carolyn McCarty

"Kris Bishop" wrote in message
...

Irene,
I just try to read the on topic posts, except when I see that a
friend has posted something ( hi, Pat) and want to see what she's up
to, or if something else catches my eye.
I do use the delete button a lot. I just happened to notice that out
of about 120 new messages just now, only about twenty were on topic.
I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this change in the
newsggroup.

Kris ( in northern Virginia)



I don't. But then again I make good use of filters

Just like any other group of people getting togeter there are going to
be chats that veer off of the subject matter. The majority of the posters
who do an off-topic post mark their posts
with "OT" If you filter your newsreader to either delete or mark these
posts then you'll have less OT posts to read. Sometimes it's the same
people who post a lot of non=topic stuff and if these posts bother you,
you can filter in other ways such as "joke," "food," etc. you can even
filter on name.

Or, just don't read the posts with "OT" in the subject line, or if
they're not marked as such, ones that don't look like they have to do
with quilting. The trick is to make the newsreader work for you, not
against you

-Irene


--------------
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. --Mae
West --------------

In article ,
Kris Bishop wrote:

Hi All,
I just signed on to read my daily RCTQ and was hoping to see some
topics about quilting to inspire me. I've been on this newsgroup for
about eight years and am finding it harder to find topics about
quilting here. There were just a few this morning to read.

Hi Kris! I've been wondering why you've been posting so rarely these
past months. g Now I know -- you're one busy lady! How you manage to
get all of those quilts made is beyond me. G

As for RCTQ, I just signed on for a quick morning "read" before washing
the floors and having some friends over for quilting. Just out of
curiosity, I did some counting. There were 21 different "threads" this
morning (I did read yesterday evening, too g), eleven of which were
definitely on topic. Since most threads have multiple posts, there were
actually 71 new articles up. Of those, 43 were on topic!

I suspect that the problem you're running into is that "on topic" can be
such a wide variety of subjects that we just didn't happen to hit what
you currently need, which is a shame. I hope the pendulum swing of what
gets posted quickly heads back to what you do need. But in the meantime,
someone who needs advice about quilting hoops or someone who has a new
block or quilt to show us is probably delighted that RCTQ hit on the
topic she needed. G

Perhaps if you told us what you have in mind, we could help more with
the inspiration you're looking for? Those YBR quilts you've described in
a different message sound great! Whoever gets them will surely adore
them.

I'm off to mop -- ugh! G
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

There are a lot of OT threads these days. I think the hurricanes and
disaster stuff has had a lot of folks stirred in many directions.
I bet as the holidays come along there will be more on topic and less
chatter. I do enjoy getting to 'know' folks more with some of the OT
and then with others we get more than we want to know. Pat has posted
her On Focus threads that have been good. Wendy is good about asking us
what we are working on. Don't go away. We lilke you around here.
Taria

Kris Bishop wrote:

Hi All,
I just signed on to read my daily RCTQ and was hoping to see some
topics about quilting to inspire me. I've been on this newsgroup for
about eight years and am finding it harder to find topics about
quilting here. There were just a few this morning to read.

I'm like the next person and think is all right to post some off
topic things, but it seems that there aren't too many on-topic threads
to read anymore. Nearly everything is off-topic ( it has reversed
itself and doesn't really feel like a quilting newsgroup anymore). Am I
mis-interpreting this? If I am, I'm sorry.

I've never left the newsgroup, but I seem to be deleting three
fourths of the messages. There just isn't enough time in the day to
read hundreds of messages about other topics. If I did that, I'd never
get any quilting done and wouldn't be living my life away from the
computer. grin As you all know from my postings ( and I've met a
lot of you personally at meet-ups and quilt shows) over the years, I
try to keep pretty busy and am in a lot of different quilting and
stitching groups.

Am I the only one feeling this way? Sorry if I'm wrong.


Kris ( in rainy, northern Virginia, heading to the sewing room to
finish putting the border on another quilt)

So, what on topic thread are you going to start? How about telling us about
the quilts you have in Houston? Or what you're working on?

--
Kathy A. (Woodland, CA)
Queen of Fabric Tramps
http://www.kayneyquilting.com ,
remove the obvious to reply


"Kris Bishop" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I just signed on to read my daily RCTQ and was hoping to see some
topics about quilting to inspire me. I've been on this newsgroup for
about eight years and am finding it harder to find topics about quilting
here. There were just a few this morning to read.

I'm like the next person and think is all right to post some off topic
things, but it seems that there aren't too many on-topic threads to read
anymore. Nearly everything is off-topic ( it has reversed itself and
doesn't really feel like a quilting newsgroup anymore). Am I
mis-interpreting this? If I am, I'm sorry.

I've never left the newsgroup, but I seem to be deleting three
fourths of the messages. There just isn't enough time in the day to read
hundreds of messages about other topics. If I did that, I'd never get
any quilting done and wouldn't be living my life away from the computer.
grin As you all know from my postings ( and I've met a lot of you
personally at meet-ups and quilt shows) over the years, I try to keep
pretty busy and am in a lot of different quilting and stitching groups.

Am I the only one feeling this way? Sorry if I'm wrong.


Kris ( in rainy, northern Virginia, heading to the sewing room to
finish putting the border on another quilt)

Waving madly!
GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY
(Yeah, Kris knows I'm not yelling--not my style--I LET you know when I'm
yelling)
But I ain't changing cause this is my ONLY outlet, quilt group, Quilting Bee
whatever you wanna call it. Can't go to class, meetings. etc so this is MY
Group of friends that I can share everything from the dumb medic to the
brilliant Dr to the latest Table Runner completion (which I JUST
finished--haven't even posted on that one yet (see Kris it IS on topic-- a
lil)
It is a Maple Leaf KIT pattern that DS bought for us last April at a Quilt
Show and I just finished--will be on this Sunday's table ; ) It's hanging on
the Design Wall for pix taking. (I do have to get after DS to get the web
site updated----been over a year now) I now know why I do NOT purchase
kits!!!!! What a fiasco.....the directions left a lot to be desired ; ( But
I followed them and finished..lots of extra ripping out as parts just did
NOT fit--so do not look too closely when the pix is up please.
Anyway, it's good to see you posting and knowing that you're reading us. I
always look forward to your next art quilt--and am envious of your ability
to do them, ; )
Hugs

Butterfly (who had the title of Queen of Off Topic--when I first came on
here--was it Miz Sairey?)

"Kris Bishop" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I just signed on to read my daily RCTQ and was hoping to see some
topics about quilting to inspire me. I've been on this newsgroup for
about eight years and am finding it harder to find topics about quilting
here. There were just a few this morning to read.

I'm like the next person and think is all right to post some off topic
things, but it seems that there aren't too many on-topic threads to read
anymore. Nearly everything is off-topic ( it has reversed itself and
doesn't really feel like a quilting newsgroup anymore). Am I
mis-interpreting this? If I am, I'm sorry.

I've never left the newsgroup, but I seem to be deleting three
fourths of the messages. There just isn't enough time in the day to read
hundreds of messages about other topics. If I did that, I'd never get
any quilting done and wouldn't be living my life away from the computer.
grin As you all know from my postings ( and I've met a lot of you
personally at meet-ups and quilt shows) over the years, I try to keep
pretty busy and am in a lot of different quilting and stitching groups.

Am I the only one feeling this way? Sorry if I'm wrong.


Kris ( in rainy, northern Virginia, heading to the sewing room to
finish putting the border on another quilt)