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[Pat]

Coming Feb 9.... 2010 Camp Sloanie Quilter's Winter Olympic Challenge!

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[TheaM1]

OMG - Pat you are the MOST diabolical person!  (besides me, I guess?)  LOL

BRING IT ON!!!

I just hope it includes shipping several feet of snow to another climate....

[Pat]

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[Sharon]

I'm gonna sit this swap out. It does sound like fun though. Maybe I'll just try for gold in the stashbusting events. 

[QuilterM0m98]

I'm in! The hardest part will be picking which UFO to finish!

[Sharon]

OK, I didn't read far enough. I'm in for the Challenge. I just don't do swaps (does not play well with others on my report card). So finish a UFO, can it be the Camp Sloanie block we just worked on? I also have the OP table runner on my frame that I would love to finish. Maybe two? I'd love to post the button, but I don't know how and no one reads my blog cause you can't get to it. At least thats what my BFF tells me. 

[Sharon]

I meant the first challenge finishing up the UFOs. I might do the Paris one cause it is just so cute and the idea so challenging. Oh my, My resolution to NOT buy any more fabric might bite the dust on this one. Anyone help me rationizing buying this kit??? anyone, anyone, Bueler? 

[Pat]

just $10.00 for a trip to Paris?? How can you REFUSE!!!  And then you can USE UP more of what you own!

[DennisD]

I don't have any UFOs.  I have only USOs.  UnStarted Objects.   I had a single UFO but it died in a Fly Lady Fling Boogy, If I Recall Correctly.

[Cindy in TN]

Don't worry, Dennis...I have enough UFO's for both of us.  Though you do have a wholecloth quilt to quilt as soon as the fabric gets here.

[Cindy in TN]

I have a few that just need the binding, but that seems like a wimpy choice.  I will have to look at my other Ufo's.

[Pat]

Is Dennis a REAL QUILTER??? NOTHING unfinished AT ALL???  I can send you some!!!

Now if you can START and FINISH during the Olympics.. go for it!

[DennisD]

Offtopicwarning!
I can finish the quilting part.   Piecing though... well... see, I hate it when my spouse bursts into laughter that way (ok not really, but she has to work at not doing it).  Except for very rare exceptions I have only ever quilted.  Either by hand (now that was a long time ago), or on a domestic, or on the longarm.

Cindy mentioned the other day she had never seen one of the old quilt frames that hung from the ceiling in person.  My grandma Blanche hated the way they swung when she was trying to work and built stands that she lowered the quilt onto.  This was where I learned to quilt, to love quilts and quilting and color.  I also learned the art of the tall tale and heard many old stories.  I could see the needle eyes and threaded many many needles, and waxed very much thread (beeswax).

Even further offtopic:  My other grandmother, Gladys, had a sister who loved to come over to quilt.  And after she left, her sisters and friends had to carefully rip it all out:  she never ever put the needle all the way through, she just embroidered a quilting pattern (they usually did a fan or echoes) onto the top... veerrrrryyyy slooooowwwwllllyyyy... so they didn't have much to rip out.  They didn't mind, they loved her very much.  But she couldn't quilt at all. 

[Leesha]

  Oh My!!!    Which UFO or PIG shall I pick!?!  Will it be to make the duvet (pieced) cover my my dd's quilt???  We have changed the fabric choices THREE times since the original project was decided on!!!  Or will it be the wall hanging of Pat's Rambling Rose to go over my bed??  I also have tons of PIG's that could be worked on.... HMMMM...

Leesha in Maine

[Pat]

Dennis your family stories are PRICELESS!!! I have NO quilters in my own family!!! 

Leesha get one of those done.. all sound like great choices!