Join the HUG list

Since the topic of HUG quilts is in a couple of threads -- I thought I would let folks know that everyone here is welcome to become a member of the HUG list.

To become a member -- just email me with your name and email address. That's all you have to do.

Then -- when a HUG quilt (or other HUG project) is requested -- you will receive an email message giving you the specifics. You are NEVER obligated to participate. If you want to -- you do. If you don't want to -- or can't at that time... you don't.

HUG blocks are usually 6 1/2 or 12 1/2" unfinished. They can be as simple as a square of fabric or a 9 patch to a very elaborate paper-pieced star or appliquéd block. Nobody compares. Nobody critiques. You do what you wish to do to the best of your ability.

Most times the blocks are for RCTQ members but not always. Sometimes an RCTQ member needs to HUG a family member or friend but can't get a quilt done on her own in a timely manner and asks for help. Again -- you don't have to if you prefer not to. Just hit DELETE on that message.

The only request is that you do everything you can to make sure your block is AT LEAST the size requested. This will help keep our HUGGER sane as the quilt top is assembled.

Many HUGGERS (aka block makers) choose to tuck a dollar or two in with their block (again -- strictly optional). But when someone volunteers to assemble or quilt the hug -- they also become "responsible" for the extra fabric needed for the top, the backing, the binding and the batting. As we all know - that can take a bite out of almost anyone's budget so any help is always greatly appreciated.

So if you want to be notified of HUGS when they are requested.... just hit REPLY to this message -- remove the NO SPAM from my address and let me know. I will happily add you to the list.

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Kate in MI
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I saved this but not the name of who originally wrote it -- although I seem to remember it was Miss Sairey -- so please correct me if I'm wrong.

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.

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