Virtual Retreat 2016

[twiglet]

Catching up on my phone and unable to view Jen's plugin - will come back to see it when I get on the 'puter.

Geneva, were you using stick on Velcro? I used some of that for my bag for Tidger, although it came unstuck in the rain so I then sewed it on. It gummed up two needles in the process and my machine was not a happy bunny, but we got there in the end.

Washed half a wall this evening after work and dinner - the bottom half :P

[rehak]

I've soldiered through using the stick-on velcro, too, but it's a real pain. Now I use the sew on velcro and stick on temporarily with glue stick. Much easier on the machine!

[Scoopie]

I totally agree with the pre-sticky Velcro not liking to be sewn. I went through heck and high water when I tried it a few years ago. Never again! Like Nancy, I buy the non-sticky, use a glue stick, then sew it.

Rosemary, now that your lounge is empty, does that mean you can no longer be a lounge lizard? :silly:

Jen, I'll have to check out that video, when I can spend more time on the computer, and feel better.

Thanks everyone for your well wishes. What can I say? It's a cold! Every day has it's new annoyances, as it runs its course! inch:

Joyce, your swoon blocks are very nice! We had a swoon block quilt for our guild's raffle quilt a couple of years ago. Quilted up beautifully!

Dawn

[genevacarroll]

You are all correct about the gummy Velcro. After I thought about it I realized that non sticky Velcro with a little bit of glue stick would have been a much better idea! I guess we live and learn huh?

Thanks for the confirmation.

Got my eyes checked. I see quite well. Except for now. Dilating your eyes is a pain!

Rosemary, maybe you could get some stilts to wash the top half of the walls. Ugh... :woohoo:

geneva

[genevacarroll]

Has any one see or heard from Rita recently?

[genevacarroll]

Geneva. ...you went all crooked on me and now Scoopie is straight side up. :S :S

[Scoopie]

Yeah, Terry, I have never figured that out! Geneva is always sideways on my iPad, but I am right side up. Most of the time. On my Quilt Of The Day a few days ago, there I was sideways again. :side: I think the secret is to only use a camera for our profile photos. No phones or iPads.

Dawn

[idaho]

Hope she's lurking Terrie...surely do miss her !! Now and then I go find her singing on YouTube.

[genevacarroll]

Oh my! I didn't know I was sideways. Dawn you are always sideways, but I like that about you. This computer stuff is odd.

I miss seeing Rita. I hope all is well with her. My husband and I had a wonderful lunch with Rita and her husband in 2012. We were driving around Ireland and Scotland. That was a fun visit. Rita is one of a kind.

Please wish me luck with my Velcro tomorrow.

Geneva

[genevacarroll]

Yum, Lottie! Thank you! I needed something sweet after my chicken quesadillas. It was the easiest thing I could fix for dinner.

Luann, thanks for the reminder on the vitamin D. I do take a D supplement, but have been remiss since I have started with my Invisalign braces. Not sure why, but taking my vitamins doesn't always happen, since some of them are chewies. Actually, I've even considered one of those lights that people use when they live in areas with not much sun in the wintertime. Last spring I realized I felt better on days that I sat out in the sun on the deck for 15 or 20 minutes. I've been taking Airborn as a supplement also, this winter. I was sick way too many days last year. I pray this year is better! You stay well, too!

Dorothy, just wanted to let you know that I made, completed, and packaged up your row while I was well! There are no cold germs on it! (Knock on wood!). I am excited to think that you will get it tomorrow. At least, you should! Marilyn's took 4 days to get from Idaho to Montana, first class, flat. So, I'm going by that.

To all who haven't mailed theirs yet, it cost around $1.30 to mail the rows if folded flat and put into an envelope about the simple of one block. This is the price for going about one state away. Of course mailing onto Canada or across the pond, will be more! But you'all are worth it!

Dawn

I actually have one of those lights, and even though we have waaay more sunshine down here, I still use it every morning while I'm having my coffee and sitting at my computer. It really does help!
Dorothy

[lorra]

Tmegrr, welcome to the forum. We talk about everything here. It may not all be quilt related, but we are all related by quilting. We learn so much from each other (Like Geneva and the velcro). We are always happy to have other quilters join in.
Also, please thank that handsome young man with you for serving our country.

[lorra]

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Rosemary, now that your lounge is empty, does that mean you can no longer be a lounge lizard? :silly:

Dawn

The lounge might be empty, but the sofa is now in the sewing room so I can lounge in there :P

PS I don't do stilts or pogo sticks. :whistle:

[lorra]

Rosemary - Another thought about height challenges and your task of prepping the lounge walls what about a hover board (I've heard they're coming on the market soon) or perhaps a unicycle? My husband suggests an elephant something a little less hi-tech.
Barb :-)

[lorra]

Rosemary, I say keep your feet on the ground (or up on the sofa in the sewing room) while you let hubby take care of the walls. You can't sew with a broken arm! Take care of your self.

[lorra]

Don't think we could quite fit an elephant in there. As for the unicycle, a friend at work has recently got one_{middle age crises?}, but it keeps dumping him on his arse :evil: :S :lol: so I think that I will give that a miss too. Our main fun and games is that I am 5' (Izzy is about the same_{when did that happen?}!) DH is 5'7" and the ceilings are 10'. We do however have a 4' long work platform for doing of such things - and I ought to be up on it just now washing the top part of the wall I did a couple of nights ago, ah well in a minute or two!_{that would be a 'just get to the end of this seam' sized minute... :P}

Oh and just in case we should feel that things are too quiet around here, the ballcock in the second toilet is broken and so the cistern is leaking and the radiator in our bedroom has sprung a leak and is now turned off - at least we have a working open fireplace_{very uncommon!} in our bedroom so we can warm the room up that way.