Just a quick reminder that if you are a participant on the HUG list... don't forget to update your email address with me if it changes.
In the past year, I have removed more than 20 people from the list due to bounced email addresses. If you didn't receive a HUG request this morning -- then I do not have your current email address.
If you are not a member of the HUG list -- but would like to be added -- just let me know.
What is the HUG list? A group of individuals who have volunteered to help with HUG projects when needed... if their schedule allows. Even if you are on the list -- participation is ALWAYS voluntary.
Sometimes a HUG is a quilt. Sometimes it is just quilt blocks. Sometimes a card. Sometimes just a fabric square. Depending on the situation -- it can be different things at different times. HUGS can be requested by any RCTQ member.
What is written below comes from a fellow RCTQ member -- Miss Sairey -- and it truly encompasses the spirit of 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.
*********************************** While we have expanded HUGS to include card showers, seed packet showers and other unique requests -- the message is always the same. WE CARE ABOUT YOU.So if you need to update your email address -- or would like to be added to the list -- just email me at
grovesfam at comcast.........................net and I will be happy to do so.
Thanks!!!
Kate in MI