Quilt Book Titles

I was annoyed when overnight deliveries became commonplace--about 15 years before the Internet--because it meant the world was going faster than seemed natural to me. It's getting even faster, and more unnatural, as evidenced by quilt book titles. The latest to tweak my internal clock is called "90-Minute Quilts". What's next--a crock pot for quilts? "Overnight Quilts--patterns so simple you can make 'em in your sleep!" Or how 'bout "Quilts You've Already Made". Maybe it's just self-defense--the older I get, the more I realize how achieving quality takes time ;-) Still....

Thank you for listening. Sometime today I will spend 10 minutes, or 1/9 the time to make a quilt, in setting up my ironing board and decently, simply ironing a few tops....

Dogmom

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Taria

Yeah, what happened to anticipation? It's more than a Carly Simon song or a Heinz catsup ad!

I do have to see what this 90-minute quilt is about. You got me giggling and agreeing all at the same time! As long as I don't see somebody using the steering wheel as a hoop and quilting while they're driving, I'll be able to handle most things.

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Kay Ahr

Let me begin by begging pardon if I'm stepping on anybody's toes, but............

I found one website (no, didn't bookmark it) that had nothing but virtual quilts. I'm sure they took a lot of time to put together and figure out. But they were quilts that absolutely could NOT ever be made in the real world. They were just pretty pixels. Does this seem weird to anybody but me?

Sunny

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Sunny

You haven't stepped on my toes -- I do love messing in EQ. But I also know exactly what you mean. I have seen some virtual quilts that are so intricate that they look more like 10,000 piece puzzles.

At the EQ site, there is a monthly challenge -- strictly virtual quilts since it's EQ after all. Some are definitely workable. Some are just inspirational. Some are triggers for a less intricate version of reality. But I do find the really complicated ones just strange.

(Pssst, could I have the URL to the website. . . . )

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Kay Ahr

Must say, that quilt hoop in the steering wheel did make me go "Hmmmmm". LOL Great idea for traffic grid locks. ;)

I can just picture Sandy saying, "Geeze! I thought it was bad when they were using their cars as phone booths!"

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LN

you can already get built in fridge, plug in electric jug for making tea/coffee, how bout replacing the glove box with a microwave, add a fold out table for the sewing machine, iron and cutting board, then build under the seat a toilet for traffic gridlock. we could spend our lives driving from LQS to quilt shows and we've got everything we'll ever need right there. ok, maybe that is why i need a biiiiiiiiig bus....one that floats too would be handy. jeanne

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nzlstar*

I was thinking about this too! I was remembering that years ago, when you stopped at a red light, it gave you a few minutes to catch your breath. Then we got "right-on-red". Now, even if you aren't turning, you've got morons behind you honking like crazy because THEY want to turn.

Sheesh, already.

Cindy

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teleflora

Nah, when I first got Electric Quilt, I found myself making far more virtual quilts than real ones. I had the same trouble with HGTV. I was spending way too much time watching people do the things that I love doing... that was back when HGTV actually had crafty shows and not just reality tv shows.

Cindy

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nzlstar*

I don't think anyone could actually do that even if they use wide fabric for a whole cloth quilt. Maybe the writer has a time machine? Or, zoned out the whole world for exactly one year and 90 minutes and hasn't noticed that the rest of us are using 2007 calendars while hers still says 2006? Only makes 4-patch Barbie doll quilts? Debra in VA See my quilts at

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No way! I have to see this. It takes me 90 minutes just to read the pattern and stare at the fabric!

Sherry

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Sherry

"SPEW ALERT" Thanks, girls---you made my day! (now i have to go get more coffee as mine is all over the screen...) =) amy

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DrQuilter

want to hear an odd twist on this? A few months ago, I am going to my new job's summer picnic, in an area of town I am not too familiar with. I was still on my old Geo Metro, not my current spiffy silver Nissan (I say that because I think it has something to do with the story).

So I am kind of lost, and getting frustrated (later I realized I was also PMSing, something I do not like to admit and usually catches me off guard as I have NO OTHER symptoms of what is about to happen.. :o).

Anyway, I stop at stop sign and see a police car that is also stopped at a different stop sign across the street in this Y shaped intersection. It seems to just be cruising around, with two officers inside, not in hot pursuit of criminals or anything of the kind. Nobody is behind me.

My window is rolled down, and I stick my head out thinking I can use this pause in my driving to ask these 'to serve and protect' service men how to get to this place - before I can open my mouth to ask, I get yelled by one of them 'Drive it, we are not traffic control!'.

I got a feel> of course the fun thing to do would be to put the brake on, get out of the

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Taria

If that has been your only time to catch someone blowing off steam, you should feel good about it only happening once. I have had it happen many times over the years and I have the boobs and had the blonde hair most of my life. Those things don't magically make people happy to help you.

It isn't easy working with the public. The same questions get asked over and over and over, and you keep answering until you are blue in the face. Meanwhile you have 20-30 other equally important things to do if only you had a moment between questions, and your boss is riding your tail because you haven't done those 20-30 other things, and you've been cussed out by several of the people who have asked for your help--solely because you did help, and the list of irritants just keeps going, and the pressure just builds and builds until a person just blows off steam. Sometimes we have the chance to get away and blow off steam where the public can't see it, sometimes we blow in public. Yes, it's rude but sometimes can't be avoided. I'm sure he just got tired of people asking questions that day and you came along after that proverbial last straw on the camel's back.

It wasn't personal, you just happened to be there at that moment.

. Debra in VA See my quilts at

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