CHAPTER 2 - SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING TRIANGLES (cont'd)

[DebbieWolf]

Dear Debbie, Clara & Sorters;

Wow, the filming, documentation sounds like fun! Or, some other suggestion on how those of us who are so far can help :lol: ?
Just let us know what or how we can help you all out?!

S/ Barbara

[DebbieWolf]

Dear Debbie, Clara & Sorters;

Is there some money we can send you to buy the sorters lunch then? Or, some other suggestion on how those of us who are so far can help :lol: ?
Just let us know what or how we can help you all out?!

S/ Barbara

Sent personal reply.

[kathyst2]

Dear Debbie and Clara, you two belong in the Quilters' Hall of Fame. After I got up from fainting about receiving over 100,000 HST's so far, I read your post about sorting day. Then I thought about how you are not only planning this whole thing, but keeping all of us in the Sisterhood and Brotherhood happy and calmed down. If it were me, I would only hope to be as gracious and kind as you both have been in this forum. My hat is off to you!

And yes, I want to see the details when you have finished with Sorting Day!

Kathy

[DebbieWolf]

Dear Debbie and Clara, you two belong in the Quilters' Hall of Fame. After I got up from fainting about receiving over 100,000 HST's so far, I read your post about sorting day. Then I thought about how you are not only planning this whole thing, but keeping all of us in the Sisterhood and Brotherhood happy and calmed down. If it were me, I would only hope to be as gracious and kind as you both have been in this forum. My hat is off to you!

And yes, I want to see the details when you have finished with Sorting Day!

Kathy

Thank you, Kathy. We are going to try our best to make everyone happy with their 'Christmas in April' surprises. It gets to be pretty overwhelming sometimes, but in the end it will all be worthwhile and very satisfying. We (actually Clara does!) have the sorting plan all worked out, a good many quilters are lined up to help, and now one of the big challenges will be to get all the HST's to the church where we'll be sorting...I'm thinking a U-Haul truck :lol: just might work for us!

By-the-way, I love the quilt in your Profile Picture!

Debbie

[Cybersue]

Just a wee update from New Zealand about the earthquake we had in Christchurch...it was so nice to hear from a couple of TQS members with thoughts and prayers this way, thank you!
It's been 11 days since the quake: 163 bodies have been recovered with another 60 missing in the rubble. 14,000 homes are still without power and many, many more have no sewerage or running water. The Council is distributing 1000's of portaloos and trucks with water. 70,000 people have left the city and relocated in other parts of NZ as their homes are destroyed...that's 1/5th of Christchurch's population. An estimated 50% of our heritage buildings will need to be demolished. Multiple aftershocks are still occuring on a daily basis and we are told to expect them for another year!
There has been unprecedented support for the quake region with millions of $$ being raised and donated and homes and schools opened around the country for the displaced. Our brother-in-law's sister is still missing in the rubble, but the rest of our families escaped unscathed.
The mood, although sad, is positive and Christchurch will rebuild, so don't put off those plans to visit NZ!!
Good luck with the sorting ladies, I wish I could help - a trip to Texas maybe?? I'm really looking forward to receiving my triangles back.
Sue Roper

[GigiWendy]

Debbie - So, what's th best local spa? We could send gift cards for a post sort massage to help you recover!

Wendy

[sanquilt]

sounds like so much fun, wish I could be there, just to see the mounds of bags and the piles and piles of little HST's. I think I would lay awake at night trying to figure out just how to sort them. where do you lay out a quarter of a million half square triangels? !!!! :-0

[sanquilt]

Sue, thanks for the update, is there anything that you know that we could do here to help even a little. I do not do the Red Cross because of the way they treated my husband when he was in Lebanon but I would be willing to help in some other way. Maybe there are items or quilts or some things that are needed. Let us know. Supplies, boxes of clothes, etc.

[DebbieWolf]

Just a wee update from New Zealand about the earthquake we had in Christchurch...it was so nice to hear from a couple of TQS members with thoughts and prayers this way, thank you!
It's been 11 days since the quake: 163 bodies have been recovered with another 60 missing in the rubble. 14,000 homes are still without power and many, many more have no sewerage or running water. The Council is distributing 1000's of portaloos and trucks with water. 70,000 people have left the city and relocated in other parts of NZ as their homes are destroyed...that's 1/5th of Christchurch's population. An estimated 50% of our heritage buildings will need to be demolished. Multiple aftershocks are still occuring on a daily basis and we are told to expect them for another year!
There has been unprecedented support for the quake region with millions of $$ being raised and donated and homes and schools opened around the country for the displaced. Our brother-in-law's sister is still missing in the rubble, but the rest of our families escaped unscathed.
The mood, although sad, is positive and Christchurch will rebuild, so don't put off those plans to visit NZ!!
Good luck with the sorting ladies, I wish I could help - a trip to Texas maybe?? I'm really looking forward to receiving my triangles back.
Sue Roper

Thank you for keeping us updated, Sue. With a quake that size, it is a wonder that many, many more people did not lose their lives.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your neighbors each day.

Debbie

[DebbieWolf]

Just a wee update from New Zealand about the earthquake we had in Christchurch...it was so nice to hear from a couple of TQS members with thoughts and prayers this way, thank you!
It's been 11 days since the quake: 163 bodies have been recovered with another 60 missing in the rubble. 14,000 homes are still without power and many, many more have no sewerage or running water. The Council is distributing 1000's of portaloos and trucks with water. 70,000 people have left the city and relocated in other parts of NZ as their homes are destroyed...that's 1/5th of Christchurch's population. An estimated 50% of our heritage buildings will need to be demolished. Multiple aftershocks are still occuring on a daily basis and we are told to expect them for another year!
There has been unprecedented support for the quake region with millions of $$ being raised and donated and homes and schools opened around the country for the displaced. Our brother-in-law's sister is still missing in the rubble, but the rest of our families escaped unscathed.
The mood, although sad, is positive and Christchurch will rebuild, so don't put off those plans to visit NZ!!
Good luck with the sorting ladies, I wish I could help - a trip to Texas maybe?? I'm really looking forward to receiving my triangles back.
Sue Roper

Sue, if some of our SoTTT's members would like to include extra HST's in your return package, would you be inclined to use those HST's to make a 'friendship' quilt for someone you know that has been hit hard by the quake.

Let us know and I'll put out the call.

Debbie

[DebbieWolf]

There's been talk of the cost of quilting material going up, I went to a club and they were discussing it there, the general opinion was that if the cost goes up then they may just as well buy it in Aussie land, with the cost of the postage as that also seems to be going up, so let's hope that it stays down or it seems that a lot will be in the postition of not being able to carry on with their most favourite hobby or be buying it on home ground, let's hope it doesn't come to that

[DebbieWolf]

Pictures of HST's Received To-Date:

Thought you might enjoy seeing a couple of pictures of some of the 268 one gallon (a few are 2-1/2 gallon!) Ziplock bags containing 105,242 HSTs. In the picture showing one tote, that tote holds 45-gallons and measures 37" long x 21" wide by 20" high. The other picture is four 64-qt. totes and one paper box. Since the sorting process has been figured out now, I'm currently going through all of these bags to take the contents out of the smaller baggies and leave them in their larger bag.

They don't look like too many because of the angle of the pictures, but they are pretty much taking up about 1/4 of my extra room.

[LoriLB]

Thanks so much for the pictures Debbie! It is kind of hard for the rest of us to envision.

Do the post office people give you odd looks? They probably wonder what fantastically profitable business you are running... :lol:
Lori

[DebbieWolf]

Thanks so much for the pictures Debbie! It is kind of hard for the rest of us to envision.

Do the post office people give you odd looks? They probably wonder what fantastically profitable business you are running... :lol:
Lori

Our P.O. Box is at one of those neighborhood postal/copy stores, so I don't have to deal with standing in line at the Post Office every day. Since the packages are so large and there are so many of them, they obviously don't fit INTO the P.O. box itself, so the lady (also named Debbie) puts them in the mail tote(s) to keep them all together for me. I have a very, very, very large IKEA shopping bag that I use to haul the packages home.

Debbie is very sweet and always very careful with our packages. She also likes to let me know when there's an International package...a nice touch! I did explain to her what we were doing and, since she isn't a quilter, I opened a package and showed her what an HST was. I also took one of Edyta's books in to show her what some of final project could look like. She also explained to the USPS delivery person what we were doing. I'm sure someone's imagination could run wild speculating what's actually in all those rather strange looking packages with all the strange names & numbers on the front :roll: !

Debbie

[Cybersue]

Hi Ladies,
It's really hard to know how to help in a disaster - we are only a 3hr drive away and felt the intitial quake ourselves and we feel helpless!
Your suggestion of some extra HST's might be a good idea. I wouldn't mind putting them together into something special for my brother-in-law, Keith, and sister-in-law, if that's OK. She's a great quilt admirer already and he would be touched by the international support. His sister, Jane, was a nursing tutor. I have loaded a picture of Keith on my profile page. He's standing in an earthquake crack outside his home!
It's a gorgeous day here today and we have a big annual Art event on today so we're off to enjoy that. Take care everyone!
Sue