OT Nascar Withdrawal Syndrome

That's neat, sort of like your signature fabric, or kinda like David Winters, the artist that sometimes hid a tiny mouse somewhere in his little cottage figurines, it was fun to look for it. I like to use a piece of Laurel Burch cat fabric whenever I can, well, sometimes I can't because it would stick out like a sore thumb, such bright colors! I've found all kinds of different Laurel Burch kitties on e-bay, sometimes just a fat quarter at a time. It's a great place to find a certain fabric. I've been lucky so far and been pleased. The only problem sometimes with e-bay is that sometimes shipping charges are excessive, but you don't see that so much with the fabrics as with other things. I'm rambling so I"ll shut up now.....enjoy the races!

Sherry

Slide on down the sofa and make room for me Polly. I'll bring the chocolate. Donna inNWOntario

Now that could be a challenge. I'm not sure you could hide a bit of Laurel Birch kitties sometimes. I could but most of my quilts are bright colors. Thanks Sherry. While I'm learning to buy fabric at ebay, I'll be alert to shipping charges. Allowing someone a fair profit is fine but I don't want to be 'taken to the cleaners'. Polly

"Sherry" That's neat, sort of like your signature fabric, or kinda like David Winters, the artist that sometimes hid a tiny mouse somewhere in his little cottage figurines, it was fun to look for it. I like to use a piece of Laurel Burch cat fabric whenever I can, well, sometimes I can't because it would stick out like a sore thumb, such bright colors! I've found all kinds of different Laurel Burch kitties on e-bay, sometimes just a fat quarter at a time. It's a great place to find a certain fabric. I've been lucky so far and been pleased. The only problem sometimes with e-bay is that sometimes shipping charges are excessive, but you don't see that so much with the fabrics as with other things. I'm rambling so I"ll shut up now.....enjoy the races!

You would love this, Donna. We have clear blue skies and a temp of 71°. The only thing we don't have is worms. The robins headed north have picked the pastures clean. Polly

Well, really, did we need to know that ?!?

:)

Lizzy

PS I'm sure the robins enjoyed them

Polly, there are more of us here than you think!!

My DH has been suffereing from NASCAR withdrawl, it's really the only sport he is into in a big way. Of course he and DD have their own 'race' team, but that doesn't start up for another two months. Anyway he has the FOX telecast set up to tape, as we have a out-of-town 'dinner theater' to attend... we will watch it on Sunday and zip through the commercials!

-Irene

Howdy!

Here it's Drag Racing. Starts up again this weekend. There goes Sunday. . . ... .

Drag Racing Quilt:

Last year Louise McClelland's 2006 (NHRA) Championship Quilt was purchased at auction for $7000.

Louise had also made a quilt a few yrs before that which was presented to one of the founders of Drag Racing, Wally Parks: (first paragraph) R/Sandy --I'll be in the front room, quilting ;-)

Oh Mercy Day, this reminds me. I've got to get going on spring cleaning of the quilt room. Need to get the wall mount and new HDTV installed so I can watch spring training that starts around March

14th.

Baseball, and I don't care if its college ball , I want my games. I can turn out all kinds of tops during the season. The only time I don't quilt or answer the phone and act like a hermit is during the playoffs and World Series. Thank you Polly for reminding me Spring is around the corner.

I haven't seen any robins here yet only cardinals. Would you send some my way.

The only thing that tells me it's warming up outside is the old geezer across the street sitting on his porch sunning himself.

Kate T. South Mississippi

I am a huge Nascar fan!!!! We love Dale, Jr. here, even though Jeff Gordon is a hometown (birth) boy. My big conflict is that on Sunday, the day at Daytona, I will be driving off to my week long quilting retreat with my wonderful friends! I will miss the whole thing! I am sad about that.......

Laurie G. in CA

Yep yep yep yep.....

On the bright side, now that I live eleven blocks from the Brickyard, I've got my first Allstate 400 tix this year..... :)

--pig

Big Nascar fans here, we'll be watching tomorrow!! I'll probably still be doing hanging sleeves and labels whild watching!! Go Denny Hamlin!!

Hot dog! How wonderful. We would just have a fit to get to see the Brickyard. Wow. At risk of boring the quilters here who are not enchanted with driving for hours and only making left turns, please report in with all of the details. And hoist one (of anything) for me. Polly

And I have only to wait until mid-March before the Formula 1 race season starts. I just hope it is free of the awful rows and 'politics' that marred last year. It should be interesting to watch, especially the young drivers, because automatic traction control is now banned >g< Tiny step back to the 'good old days' of motor racing >g< . In message , Polly Esther writes

We're not only NASCAR fans here,but we are bigger fans of dirt track racing. Late Models and Sprint Cars especially. We have been known to travel in the motor home and picking towns and cities to stay in just to check out their local bullrings. Every year for the past 20 we go to Knoxville Ia for the Nationals. It's like a family reunion of freinds that we only get to see once a year. Ok, I guess racing was how I got into quilting. I saw a raffle for a t shirt quilt at the races and decided I could make one. It took me a loong time but that started the bug. Donna inNWONtario where the wind is blowing so much I can see what I'm typing :(

Small world....DD's fiance's family lives in Knoxville! Have you been the the new track in Newton?

don't know much about it but thought that if you're in the area...you might want to see if there are any races!

I love the area but alas, we are 800 miles away. It's umm a good day's drive to get there. I'm hoping we can go for a weekend to Knoxville in the spring as my DH makes his last trip on the railroad April 28. 37 years of riding the rails. I'll have to check out the website and see if there is something happening then. A good friend in Kansas wants him to come down and visit. I told him not to wait for me just because I still have to work. I hope he will go for a while, he needs the R&R real bad. Donna inNWONtario

The Daytona 500 is this Sunday. Slide a little further down that sofa, I've got the popcorn.

Hugs, Mika

Great, Mika. Welcome. If you can't wait, we'll be starting up this afternoon with two races to qualify some more entrants in the 500, a truck race (with, DH reports, a little red-haired lady driver) on Friday, and haven't heard it mentioned but we're hoping for a Busch race on Saturday. We've been watching the practice runs; some rain, a lot of wind. Start your engines. Polly

"Mika" The Daytona 500 is this Sunday. Slide a little further down that sofa, I've

As it turns out, the Rich Vogler Foundation has a fundraising event for the Daytona 500. (Rich was a midget/Indy racer who was killed in a crash; his wife administers scholarships in his name.).....

I'll be there. :)

One of the Vogler scholarship winners you might know was a kid named Ryan Newman...... :)

--pig