OT: SOMETHING TO OFFEND EVERYONE

Ouch, Marcella! I almost did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. Luckily for me, the rotary cutter slipped and merely cut my fingernail; I still have a gouge across the top of it. Whew!

If you're asking your "working on" question of the general public here, I'm excited to be almost finished with another piece I started at camp in July. I'm hoping it will be done by tomorrow. Yay!

You know, I had been so proud that I had made it 12 years without injury and then...well, I have no idea how my finger got in the way of that blade. Shoot.

I hope you post a picture of the finished product! Which class was the project from?

marcella

I recently nicked the side of my finger with my rotary cutter - isn't it amazing how much a tiny cut can bleed!

I wish I could drop in for a cup of coffee or tea - I'd bring along the two tops I just finished so that we could pin baste them!

I can't explain it just yet. I know it's a long wait, but my grand opening will be November 1st, and I might give a sneak peek beforehand if the new website's done in time. In the meantime, I'm having ever so much fun making baby clothes to match the quilts I'm making.

I know what you mean, Marcella! This was the first time I've had an "incident" with a rotary cutter in the 20+ years I've been quilting; I just couldn't figure out how it happened! At least mine didn't hurt, since the top of my nail is all that was involved.

I did post a picture last night. :) It's at the very bottom of , and it was from one of the two classes I took from Pam Holland. She's really fun! She's from Australia and hands out tiny koalas holding Australian flags to all of her students. That's not counting the big blow-up kangaroo who accompanies her to her classes.

I *swear* my rotary cutter attacked me. It sliced my hand earlier this year, after, um, I think 13 years of quilting without injury. One second it was cutting fabric, the next second it was cutting ME, and I have no idea how it happened.

The slice was too close to the wrist to stay closed, so it got stitched. (And then I had an allergic reaction to the suture material and it had to heal open anyway -- *sigh*)

My teenagers spouted slit-wrist jokes for a couple of weeks.

Sorry I missed that one -- my soul sister Rosie is first generation Mexican from Texas. Her mother was legal but her father wasn't. She has a grandson she calls Paco as an affectionate nickname - what is racist about that name? I really want to understand. She calls her only granddaughter Poquita - is that racist too? Or are you talking about intent and not the words?

You may be right about the cutter, Rose. ;) I think they sometimes do have a mind of their own; otherwise, how would I end up with strips that aren't the size I'd so carefully measured?

And teenagers do have a strange sense of humor sometimes, don't they? LOL!

Youch! sounds like a much more serious cut than mine. Mine is pretty little.

I hope your rotary cutter is behaving better now.

marcella

Beautiful! You are so good a finishing things. I need to work on that.

marcella

That would be fun. I actually like to baste quilts. How weird is that?

marcella

Thank you for your generosity.

More like he's angry about the way they treated him and his mother when they had the chance to help her and him.

They've spent a lot of years lying to him and to us, and placed him in harm's way. He feels in a roundabout way they made his mother what she is and that's part of what killed her.

: > My stepson's grandparents decided to call him "Paco" when he was born : > because "he's the grandchild with the most Mexican". Now that he's old : > enough to understand what they've said, he has asked them to stop. Their : > refusal is more of their cracker-assed racism (mind you, the grandmother is : > from New Mexico and growing up didn't have running water or shoes, but : > insists she's Spaniard because it's more European or some crap). : >

: > Most of this is a blatant attack on my husband, who is a first generation : > American. I find people upset by that offensive, but I do notice that these : > grandparents have to make issue of it whenever they can. : >

: > Tell me that's loving and accepting. : >

: > "SNIGDIBBLY" wrote in message : > news:EDeXe.18214$tB5.10230@okepread06... : > : Bingo!! Point proven ... but it sure brings ya'll out of the woodwork and : > : gets ya'll to thinking and probably more alive at that moment than : > before - : > : just an opportunity to grow and breath and feel your own heart pumping. : > : Worked so very well, too. Education is wonderful. : > : : > : Thanks for admitting it was personal prejudice against one person based on : > : misinformation - and not value based at all. Sound familiar? Bigotry - : > pure : > : and simple - the very thing you say you hate in the poster - and are so : > : guilty of yourself. LOL!! : > : : > : -- : > :

His name is David Richard. They call him Paco merely because my husband's mother is a naturalized citizen, not born on this side of the border. Paco is extremely derrogatory, and considering that his grandmother grew up without running water in a small town in New Mexico, it's unforgivable.

: : -- : Dr. Quilter :

I lived for almost 30 years on the Mexican border in Arizona. Paco was a valid nickname, as you say Marissa, for Francisco; no one ever took offense at it, if their real name was Francisco. I can't say whether the same held true if the name was something else.

I've also heard lots of people -- mostly the older generations -- calling small children -- usually their grandchildren -- Poquita or Poquito. It's an affectionate nickname, rather in the same spirit I use when calling my youngest DGS "Stinker" or "Sweetheart".