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Skriven 2013-10-08 20:55:12 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 5547 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Hi Ruth,

-> -> I like to do the traditional patterns but I guess it's in the
choice  of fabrics I use that make stand out. The one I just finished
was an  Attic

 ->  RH> It all depends on what you're going after.  Sometimes the
 fabric tells you what it wants to be.

 RH> Sometimes the fabric develops a mind of its own.

Then you have to beat it with a stick. (G)

->  RH> Want to do another one?  I was gifted with an attic window quilt,
 RH> or
->  RH> at least all the pieces for one.  They're all cut but no one ever
->  RH> sewed it together.  It's not my colors, but it's also not my style
->  RH> pattern.

-> Send it down this way. What colors are in it? Depending, I might use
-> pieces of it in various projects or I may just do it as originally
-> intended.

 RH> A lot of greens; it would work nicely as a guy quilt.  Someone's
 RH> granny cut this out but never sewed it together. The family put it out
 RH> at a yard sale for two bucks, but with no takers.  Somebody spent
 RH> dozens of hours cutting this out and they couldn't sell it for two
 RH> dollars.

OK, I saw the postal system notification. It'll be a keep me busy
project. Sounds like there aren't too many traditional quilters in your
area or they just didn't happen to catch that yard sale.


 She also cut a gazillion strips, but I'll make use of those. I need to
 stack up some baby and other emergency quilts this winter.


We use them in our QoV group, both as is, and cut up.


->  RH> Ack.  81 fabrics?  I guess you don't have to worry about
 RH> duplicating
->  RH> something by accident!

-> Not planning to; I'll match up pairs before cutting. I'm not sure how
-> many different fabrics this Double 4 Patch has in it but there are 4
-> different alternating squares to the 4 patch blocks.

 RH> You could always paper bag it and see what happens.

Not this one, it's a planned randomness.

-> I've got a smaller set up that wasn't as expensive but it still takes up
-> space.

 RH> Mine take up an entire room too, and I still can't do my cutting in
 RH> it.


We keep our "long arm" set up torn down most of the time as we just
don't have the space. Might be better since we took some furniture out
of the living room tho. I do my cutting in the sewing room; I've got a
cutting table that also collects a lot of other stuff on it. A table top
ironing board "lives" at one end and for lack of space in this house,
the table only has one side up.

-> -> We tried pork roll in NJ a few years ago, less than impressed. Kinda
-> -> reminded us of spam. (G)

->  RH> It reminded Dad of his childhood, I think.

-> Was he raised in NJ? That's been the only place we've seen it on a menu.

 RH> Maplewood, in fact. Right on the nose.

So he wanted his taste of home every so often. Just like my dad, every
time we went out to North Tonawanda, he would have to stop at one
particular sausage manufacturing place and get some.


-> We had spent the night in Edison and had breakfast in a diner the next
-> day, saw it there. I don't recall it on the diner menu in the Green
-> Brook area tho, but then too, I wasn't especially looking for it. My mom
-> never mentioned anything about pork rolls and she was brought up in
-> Plainfield.

 RH> That makes sense, the Oranges are in that same neck of the woods.  It
 RH> turns up in Pennsylvania too; I'm not sure how much further South it
 RH> goes or how far West.

Hasn't made it to NC that I know of, or as far west as TX (and beyond).
I think it's just a relatively localised thing.

-> shoes. He still can't use NSAIDS (because of the back) and tylenol was
-> barely cutting the hurt for a while.

 RH> Ow. Tylenol is good for nothing when stuff really hurts.  I was told
 RH> an icepack works better.  Aleve does better on joint pain, I'm told,
 RH> although it never did much for me.  It can also wreck your stomach.
 RH> There are
 RH> stretching exercises that help feet, but with the back he might not be
 RH> able to do some of it.

He's doing better now that he's been in the better shoes for a few days.
Now he's more understanding about all the trouble I had after I broke my
foot 8 years ago.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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