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Time for another Roll Call?
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin |
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Time for another Roll Call?
I'll join you Sally - not often two Brits get together here!!
I, too, use loads of exclamation marks. I have decided that just as the French and Italians speak with gestures, we write/speak with exclamation marks. I honestly could get by without them g I live in a very rural part of England - far west, half way up, almost into Wales. We live 100ft up, on a sort of 'saddle' between the two highest points in Shropshire. I am retired, and sew as often as I can. I try to garden, but we have nearly 2 acres (though much of it is left wild), and the 'soil' is brick-making clay. It is quite a cold climate here, but much wetter than Sally's. She would beat us hands down on cold winds! I have four beautiful rabbits - two girls and two boys, who live in large homes within a luxuriously appointed 'shed' (said shed had an extension a few years ago so they could have longer hutches!! - shed man said he's never heard of such a thing g). We also have five cats: four are getting on in age and so we adopted our new kitten - now nearly 10 months old. I love motor racing (Formula 1 and World Rally), and love it when, watching a race, I make a comment that is then made by the official commentator! I am quite shy and have to hide it when in company. I prefer home-based activities. I am trying to allow time to play the piano (digital) again. .. In message , Sally Swindells writes 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? -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Time for another Roll Call?
In article ,
Sally Swindells wrote: Following the discussions on who everyone is, it might be time for another Roll Call. So here goes. snip Punctuation - use far too many exclamation marks!!! So .. who's next? I'll go next -- and I also use far too many exclamation marks. G We lived in Arizona until about ten years ago, when I retired and we moved to this area to be nearer to the grandchildren (only one at the time, though). I used to be a high school French teacher, and DH Mike was the high school principal. In the small town where we lived, there was only one high school. G We have two DDs, almost 35 and just-turned 33. They are both married, though the younger one is in the middle of a divorce, sadly. The elder has three children: boy 10, boy 8, and girl almost 2. The younger DD has two boys, aged 8 and almost 5. The elder DD and her DH are both teachers in a middle school here, and the younger DD does financial planning. Her soon-to-be ex works at Hoover Dam here. While DH is officially retired, he has a part-time job supervising student teachers through the university here. It keeps him out of trouble. When he's not doing that, he likes to hang out at one of the sports books here, where he can watch a zillion different sporting events at once and relieve me of the sound of the channel flipping. VBG I'm not a sports fan. We're down to one QI now -- Bisou, our adorable cocker spaniel, will be two in May. She has an unfortunately addiction to leather and has left several of her marks on our leather sofas, but we're hoping that she'll outgrow that with time. Meanwhile, we crate her when away and don't give her the opportunity to misbehave in that way again. I used to sew lots of clothing for myself (starting when I was fairly young), for the two DDs and even for Mike; but I've given that up in favor of quilting. I started by machine piecing and hand quilting, but I've expanded my repertoire into machine appliqué (a little) and machine quilting (a lot). I'm hoping to add hand appliqué at some point, but so far that's been unsuccessful. Oh, and I do a bit of hand piecing, too, when I want to work on my Quilted Diamonds. At any rate, I've been quilting now for over 25 years, and I can't see myself stopping anytime soon. There are so many new techniques to try that the variety keeps me going. Next? -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious) http://www.sandymike.net |
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Time for another Roll Call?
DH and I are moth retired, but spend the winters in Central Florida, and the
summer we are back home in SC. DH used to work with an airline, I used to work with the county with challenged adults. I have a blind aunt who lives in assisted living who I love to take with me for breakfast and shopping. Her 2 son's spend week end time with her. I make bags for her walker, and also a bag to hang around her neck to hold her hearing aid so she can play balloon games using her hands. I've been sewing since making my doll clothes, but didn't start making my clothes until I learned in high school and then I took off and made most everything. I have a dauchund QI who is 2, and my son's dog, Troll,a black mostly collie & Newfoundland is a bit younger and stays here most of the time. Both are rescued dogs, and love to lay at my feet when I sew. In the past few years I made a few lap quilts, but it seems that most of my sewing is for the retirement home. The last 3 years I have taught 5 people to sew. I enjoy passing along my skills. A friend is coming to my house in a couple of days to learn to use her serger. Next? Barbara in SC "Sandy" wrote in message ... In article , Sally Swindells wrote: Following the discussions on who everyone is, it might be time for another Roll Call. So here goes. snip Punctuation - use far too many exclamation marks!!! So .. who's next? I'll go next -- and I also use far too many exclamation marks. G We lived in Arizona until about ten years ago, when I retired and we moved to this area to be nearer to the grandchildren (only one at the time, though). I used to be a high school French teacher, and DH Mike was the high school principal. In the small town where we lived, there was only one high school. G We have two DDs, almost 35 and just-turned 33. They are both married, though the younger one is in the middle of a divorce, sadly. The elder has three children: boy 10, boy 8, and girl almost 2. The younger DD has two boys, aged 8 and almost 5. The elder DD and her DH are both teachers in a middle school here, and the younger DD does financial planning. Her soon-to-be ex works at Hoover Dam here. While DH is officially retired, he has a part-time job supervising student teachers through the university here. It keeps him out of trouble. When he's not doing that, he likes to hang out at one of the sports books here, where he can watch a zillion different sporting events at once and relieve me of the sound of the channel flipping. VBG I'm not a sports fan. We're down to one QI now -- Bisou, our adorable cocker spaniel, will be two in May. She has an unfortunately addiction to leather and has left several of her marks on our leather sofas, but we're hoping that she'll outgrow that with time. Meanwhile, we crate her when away and don't give her the opportunity to misbehave in that way again. I used to sew lots of clothing for myself (starting when I was fairly young), for the two DDs and even for Mike; but I've given that up in favor of quilting. I started by machine piecing and hand quilting, but I've expanded my repertoire into machine appliqué (a little) and machine quilting (a lot). I'm hoping to add hand appliqué at some point, but so far that's been unsuccessful. Oh, and I do a bit of hand piecing, too, when I want to work on my Quilted Diamonds. At any rate, I've been quilting now for over 25 years, and I can't see myself stopping anytime soon. There are so many new techniques to try that the variety keeps me going. Next? -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious) http://www.sandymike.net |
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Time for another Roll Call?
On Apr 23, 9:53*am, Sally Swindells
wrote: Following the discussions on who everyone is, it might be time for another Roll Call. SNIP So .. who's next? -- Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ukhttp://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin Okay, ya talked me into it! My name is Launie (pronounced Law-knee) and until recently widowed in November I was married for twelve years. We have five kids altogether, his, hers and ours, but usually I just got my order...so there's the oldest, Felicia is 20, Tate (aka Terry) is 20, Ronnie is 19, Zach is 18, and then there is are baby together, Hunter is 9. The only one who lives at home with me is Hunter. Felicia is attending college a couple hrs from here, Tate is starting college this fall (hopefully), and Zach is graduating high school this June and is currently attending college also. I have five furry butts, but only four are actual QI's. First comes Olive who is a tortoise shell calico and she prefers to be outdoors, then we got Corki who is a two year old Corgi/weiner mix, then came Gabby (tabby) and her sister, Night (black, although in the sunlight she looks more chocolate brown and looks like a tabby too.) I have lived in this house since I've been with my DH...we compromised and found a house in the middle of where we both lived. It's in the timberlands and I love it. My own little retreat, except for I do the cleaning, cooking, etc.... I do not currently work, although I do plan on starting college in the fall and may have to find a job one day a week or something till I can sell the handicapped van...sigh I first started out sewing making clothes for myself along with simple tied quilts, then I purchased a rotary cutter, mat such and my stash as increased because I HATE to depart with anything....hence the 1000's of cross stitch booklets I haven't used in twenty years...hey, I might get back to it one day! lol I grew up as a navy brat, which means I never stayed in one place for over two years and if I was really lucky it would be two years! There are pros and cons to this lifestyle and although I love to travel I also love the idea of belonging somewhere! I enjoy belonging to this group/ with this group...whichever the case may be. I haven't sewed since my DH passed, but am getting back to it, or at least getting closer and closer... I also love to garden, read, cook, and sleep. I don't know why I love to sleep, maybe the cuddling of my blankets and being warm! lol Can't think of any more things to say, although I know there's more... Launie, in Oregon |
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Time for another Roll Call?
I'll come out of lurkdom to add another brit to this branch of the
thread. I'm Karen, mum of two teens, describes as "an engineer on hormones" by my DH (If he had wanted a domesticated wife he shouldn't havemarried an engineer) I came to patchwork via a love of mathmatics and geometry and the need for a creative outlet to indulge myself in whilst sitting arround waiting for DDs various activites to finish. I am definitely in the stash-building phase of my patchwork career... several USOs ( un-started objects) - who am I kidding MANY USOs await the time real-life slows down a bit and i can get some sewing time in. I'm in outer SW London My QIs are Rustle & Ziggy ( 2 ginger and white toms - I wanted to call them Sat and Nav but that was rejected as too "clever" by the rest of my family), HRH Sox ( black & white lady cat & ruler of the roost) and Bramble a cavalier king charles spaniel - the wussiest dog in the world. Chocolate - yes please - preferably with nuts in it. Teen taming and other domestic engineering tasks fill most of my time...and I spend a lot of time lurking here. I would love to find a quilt guild around here... Enough about me...who is next? Karen In message , Sally Swindells writes 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? -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Sally Swindells wrote:
Following the discussions on who everyone is, it might be time for another Roll Call. Hello folks, I'm still Jo in Scotland, but live in St. Andrews now, not Dundee. It's just "over the water" and through the woods, but going from a city of 180,000 to one of 18,000 is like returning to the village I grew up in. I like the slower pace of life in Fife and the friendly folks. Plus the University has a big presence, a much bigger impact on the population in Dundee, and I feel buoyed up by youth and hope and all that, which is often lacking in Dundee. I recently combined my two-cat family (Poppy, a female ginger tabby cat, and Daisy, her black-n-white tuxedo sister cat) to Mark's one-cat family (Tara, who is a calico and about 16). Mine just turned 3 in January. It's gone surprisingly well, but Tara does not "play" which disappoints my two kitties. Tara sees their games as pathetic, and looks on them with evident scorn. Fortunately the house has 3 stories and each cat has claimed a level of her own. Hmm. Combining 3 female cats into one happy household is not for the faint of heart! I finished my postgraduate law course last summer, just as the economy hit the floor, so I'm about to start work as a receptionist at the University. It's not what I hoped for, but it will be nice to be able to walk to work, 5 minutes from the house, and to earn some money. Mmm, a fabric fund (if only - I'll be paying off student debts!) I have unearthed many UFOs while tidying my boxes (the stash is still not unpacked since the move, in late October) and have done a bit of work on a couple of them. I did complete 2 new quilts for Mark's nephews at Christmas. They were I-spy squares on the front and orange fleece on the back. Bound with black, which turned out very classy. Quick to dry and cuddly. They went down well with the 4-year-old and the 7-month old. I'm making a matching cushion for the younger boy's birthday in early May. I've set up an Etsy shop where I hope to display and quite possibly sell some of my fabric creations. If you would like to have a look, it's he http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5170927 Chocolate of any kind is welcome, but I don't like white chocolate and it doesn't really qualify as "chocolate" anyway, since it is a mix of cocoa butter, vanilla, sugar, etc. Mark is allergic to nuts, so I get all the nut-based food that comes into the house. Mark is an IT systems manager, who has a surprisingly good grasp of quilting after his rapid immersion in the subject and can identify various elements such as half-square triangles, etc when quizzed. He recently was given a quilt (made by me) where every fabric on the front features quite realistic spiders. The thing gives me the creeps. It seems to move by itself. The backing is very realistic spiders on black. I keep it covered with a blue bedspread during the day. It's a boy's dream of a quilt. He has been asking me make a quilt with various submarines on it. Erm, I'll just add that to my already massive "to do" list then. But his birthday is coming up in early May, and I'm using next week (he's away in Italy at a conference) to make his birthday present without fear of interruption or discovery. Think that's about all..... -- Jo in Scotland |
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Time for another Roll Call?
Sally Swindells wrote:
Following the discussions on who everyone is, it might be time for another Roll Call. I'm a retired software engineer who's been quilting off and on for 35+ years. I started sewing clothing over 50 years ago and have tried all kinds of needlework. I'm pretty much self-taught. I haven't done much clothing or other needlework since I discovered rotary cutters about 20 years ago. I so mostly machine piecing and machine quilting, though I do find hand quilting relaxing and I've recently fallen in love with hand applique. I've been married for almost 42 years and have a son & a daughter. Both are married. We have 4 grandkids ranging in age from 8-1/2 years to 2 years. We're fortunate to live only about 1-1/2 hr. from them all, so can see them with some regularity. I have no pets. My favorite chocolate is very dark. Julia in MN -- ----------- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/default ----------- |
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Sally Swindells wrote:
I currently live in southern NV--over the hump in Pahrump from Sandy in Las Vegas. The Spring Mountains separate us--hence the hump. ;-) I fell in love with quilting when I was just a kid and enjoyed seeing the different fabrics in my great grandmother's scrappy patchwork. Scrappy quilts are my first love. I actually began quilting as a young adult. At first I was quite traditional and hand-pieced and hand-quilted. I still love the look of hand-pieced/hand-quilted quilts, but having more ideas than I have time for, I've been working on sewing machine skills. I'll start to practice FM in earnest soon. However, there is a quilt that I'm hand-piecing now.... :-) I've also developed an interest in sewing recently. I have one QI, a black cat with a white belly named Charley. Every time I lay a quilt out, he has to test it--whether I want him to or not! I live with my extended family--parents and elderly grandparents who recently joined us. My grandparents are in their mid-80's. I am the "family organizer". I have no children, but the adults in this family keep me busier than I could ever imagine. ;-) Next? Best regards, Michelle in NV |
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Time for another Roll Call?
OK, I'll play.
I am one of the males on the list (Hi John and Steve). Started sewing back in 92 making kites and bags for the kites. Started quilting 3 years ago. My wife was never so happy to see me start sewing so she no longer has to. Also like to ride my bicycle (helps keep the weight off from too much chocolate lol) I have 2 kids (29 yo son and 26 yo daughter) and a beautiful granddaughter (17 months). Can't wait till she is old enough to teach her to sew with me. 2 dogs, a bichon and a chow. I am a salesman living in Indiana and traveling all over Ohio, my wife teaches 1st grade. 55 years young. Spend most of my sewing time making purses and diaper bags lately, so can't finish any of my quilt projects. If the official chocolate inspector is too busy, feel free to send it to me and I will do my best to help out : ) -- Denny in Fort Wayne http://community.webshots.com/user/kiteflyer54 /\ / \ / \ \ / \ / \/ \ \ / \ \ / \ |
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