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Name: Sue
Home: Indiana Occupation: Media Technician Age: 48 Past Lives: Retail, Factory, Nursing home Family: DH, 2 DDs, 3 DGDs, 2 DSILs, DMIL Food: Anything but eggplant QI's: Shorty- 14 yr. old mutt, Snoopy- 6 yr. old Black shorthair cat Machine(s): Baby Lock, Bernina 125, Brother 180D embroidery machine, Singer serger Quilting For: About 20 years, in between knitting, crocheting, sewing garments, and every kind of embroidery! Quilt Assembly Preference: Rotary cut, machine pieced Quilt Style Preference: Traditional piecework done in nontraditional ways. Colour Preference: All of them! Skill level: Medium Posting/Reading frequency: At least daily Interests other than quilting/fabric fondling/S.E.X.:Reading, cooking, friends Pet Peeves: People who don't pick up after themselves TV Shows: Monk, Law and Order(all of them!), CSI (all of them!), Cold Case. Drive A: 1996 GMC Yukon Favorite Quote: We have met the enemy and he is us SueS |
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Hope I'm not too late answering this post....I'm kinda slow sometimes.
Name: Martha Heath (Martha in IN) Home: Terre Haute, IN Occupation: Retired Age: 63 Past Lives: Middle School Counselor, Elementary Counselor, Special Ed. teacher...before that, too long ago to matter much. Went back to college when I was 36, took exactly 20 years from high school graduation to college graduation. Family: DH who is just the best! married 28 years (he is husband # 2): first one up and died on me at age 36...bad, really bad. Larry (DH) wanted to marry me BECAUSE (well one reason) I had three kids! Can you believe it? DS #1 and DIL=3 grandchildren; DS #2...great guy, but not married; DD and DSIL, no grands, but love'em anyway. DH's kid: DS and DDIL with 2 grands; DS and DDIL no grands, but they sure are working on it. Food: Not too many things I don't like; right now we are on the "South Beach Diet" so one of my very favorites (pasta) has been off-limits! QI's: Laverne and Shirley, litter mates, 7 year old cats, who think they are in charge. Machine: Viking #1+ and Pfaff 1471 Quilting: About 2 1/2 years...have been sewing for many, many years. After retiring, I just kept on sewing and finally realized that I didn't need those clothes I was making. Decided to make a quilt for one of the grandkids and haven't looked back since. Quilt assembly: machine, machine, machine...if I can't do it by machine, I probably won't do it. Style preference: not really sure, guess I like traditional and a more geometric look than any other. Color Preference: Like most colors in the right setting, but not too turned on by the "Autumn" colors. I just realized that pretty recently. I look at those quilts in the magazines and find myself thinking, "Hmmm, wonder what other colors I could use." Skill level: Confidant beginner Post/ reading frequency: Read daily when at home...love you guys; post when I feel I have something to add to the discussion, which isn't too often. Interests: Reading, mostly only mysteries or quilt books G Love a really good mystery, actually they don't even have to be that good, I read 'em anyway. Don't watch much TV, except the Today show every morning. Drive: 2003 Mini Cooper named Baby. |
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 |
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Okay, folks... what is this "Monk" everybody watches? I've never heard
of it and I feel soooooooo depraved... errrrr... deprived. Leslie always the last to know The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me- My dogs aren't my whole life... they make my life whole. RCTQ- Houston 2004..... A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!" |
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Name: Julie Bradford
Home: Outside Southampton, UK Occupation: Mother, wife, and anything else I am needed for ) Age: 32 Past Lives: Hairdresser, shop assistant, worked in the bank for a spell, Garage receptionist Family: Married to DH in 2001. DD 13, DS 10 ( 11 in December) and DS 1 Food:Chinese, Italian and anything I don't have to cook ;o) Also love hot and spicy food much to the dismay to the rest of the family QI's: one canary called tweetypie and DD2 Luke loves to watch me sew and play with the scraps. Quilter in training I hope. Also older 2 are starting to get interested ( well I hope so *g* ) Machine(s): A brother, QC janome ( the more basic one) and a FW 201 singer Quilting For: 2 years this month. I have made 5 lap sized quilts now. Quilt Assembly Preference: rotary cut, machine pieced, and still trying to master machine quilting. I will get there in the end ) Quilt Style Preference: I find all styles pretty so am going to work my way through them all ( Ok I plan to live until 450 years old lol) Colour Preference: Purples, blues, brights and anything apart from brown Skill level: Still a beginner and learning slowly Posting/Reading frequency: I read nearly everything but don't post much due to time and a toddler ! Interests other than quilting/fabric fondling/S.E.X.: I read a lot quilt magazines, books, terry pratchett. Love to cook and experiment in the kitchen Pet Peeves: Rudeness, not thinking of the consequences you actions have on others, and people thinking deaf and disabled people have no brains. people talking down to children or ignoring them and many many more TV Shows: Pass, all we seem to get on our TV is Teletubbies, Fimbles and the Simpson's Drive A: Rover Favourite Quote: Unless it's a mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of time. There are to many mediocre things in life -- Love shouldn't be one of them. -- Jules |
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Well I vote for, encourage, and strongly support you guys in having a NY
meet-up! The Illinois / Indiana meet-up was a huge success, and many are counting on it becoming a yearly event! Karen, Queen of Squishies -- My reply address is scrambled. Please change my address to hicall80 at earthlink dot net |
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We could try to do an East Coast get-together sometime since we have a group
from NY, NJ, DE, MD, VA and PA. We could figure out a mid-point between the two farthest folks and find a good spot. Any takers? -- Alice in NJ www.ourcyberfamily.us "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." John Churton Collins "Queen of Squishies" wrote in message k.net... Well I vote for, encourage, and strongly support you guys in having a NY meet-up! The Illinois / Indiana meet-up was a huge success, and many are counting on it becoming a yearly event! Karen, Queen of Squishies -- My reply address is scrambled. Please change my address to hicall80 at earthlink dot net |
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Alice,
I would LOVE to get together with a bunch of quilters because I don't know what ta heck I'm doing. Susie in northern NY and quilting only a few days. ) We could try to do an East Coast get-together sometime since we have a group from NY, NJ, DE, MD, VA and PA. We could figure out a mid-point between the two farthest folks and find a good spot. Any takers? Alice in NJ |
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Sure, Alice, would love a meetup. Just don't have it during the snowy
months! Nancycog in MD |
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So, you got something against us East Coasters below the Mason Dixon line?
Huh? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "AliceW" wrote in message ... We could try to do an East Coast get-together sometime since we have a group from NY, NJ, DE, MD, VA and PA. We could figure out a mid-point between the two farthest folks and find a good spot. Any takers? -- Alice in NJ www.ourcyberfamily.us "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." John Churton Collins "Queen of Squishies" wrote in message k.net... Well I vote for, encourage, and strongly support you guys in having a NY meet-up! The Illinois / Indiana meet-up was a huge success, and many are counting on it becoming a yearly event! Karen, Queen of Squishies -- My reply address is scrambled. Please change my address to hicall80 at earthlink dot net |
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