hug page

This is what I copied and saved long ago... is this what you are looking for?

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.

Thank you so much Kate. That's just what I wanted.

You know? I don't think I've ever read that before now. That's lovely.

I didn't write it -- just saved it from the group. Does anyone know who did write it?

I believe it was Sara from Las Cruces (used to participate in the group a lot - haven't heard from her here for a couple of years I think).

I think that's who it was, too. . In message , Louise in Iowa writes