I'll be sending out a HUG request in a day or two.
If you are on the list and your email hasn't changed in the past few years... you are good to go. If you are on the list and it has changed... and you wish to stay on it... you need to get me your current email address. If you are on the list and wish to be removed, when you get it -- just reply with a request to be removed.
If you are new to RCTQ and don't know what a HUG is.... read below the way our own Miss Sairey explained it.
We don't always do full quilts any more (although it doesn't mean we can't!) We sometimes do block showers, squishy showers, card showers, we did a seed packet shower... Something quick and easy to send remind someone how much they are cared about during their time of difficulty... or during a time of celebration!
Thanks...
Kate in MI
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What is a HUG?
A HUG is bits of fabric put together with love and understanding -- and sometimes, a serious case of stitching-out-the-pain, for some of us who cannot be there to administer the real, personal HUGs. A HUG is one way (sometimes the only way we have, in this chunk of cyber-space, this big quilting bee many of us have depended on in ways we can never fully explain) to put our arms around someone (and each other); to reach out and say "I wish I could be there with/for you, in person, but I can't, and this will just have to do, at least for now."
A HUG wraps the absolute caring that goes on in this newsgroup (RCTQ) into a tangible package for someone to touch, and feel, and cuddle down into when times are tough. Sometimes, a HUG is all we have, when words aren't enough. Now, don't think for an instant that HUGs are ALL sadness and tragedy. Not by a long shot, they aren't. There's almost always a lot of laughter stitched into each HUG, and a lot of shared good-times. Lots of puns get worked into many of the HUG-blocks, and lots of the things we've just LEARNED about each other, from time to time. Lots of rainbows and butterfly wings and sunshine and flowers and just downright-silly-giggles, too.
There is an astonishing amount of power in a HUG, folks. Lightning and thunder and some really sharp edges and planes. Anger, sometimes, in a HUG. A good, clean kind of anger.
A HUG is for Friendship and Family. A HUG helps with fear and pain. A HUG is for Laughter and good times and spinning around the room in a happy-dance. A HUG is all the things quilters do, for all the reasons they do the things they do. But because mostly, quilters do what they do because they CARE so very deeply, and simply understand the perfect beauty of a HUG quilt.
May this HUG wrap you in the arms of all those who love you, many around the country, and around the world, who you may never meet but hold you and those you love deep in their hearts and daily in their prayers.