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E.P, you are a DOMESTIC-GODDESS! I had more fun looking at all your photos and very pretty sewing and crafts. It was sort of like being a peeping Tom only invited in. lol You really have done some beautiful work and thank you so much for posting the links for us. Donna

I am tired. I am silly tired. I went to look at your Tree (flying geese) quilt, page 8 of quilting, and wondered how @#$! big that spider was crawling out from behind the bookcase. Eventually realized it was the limbs of a tall wispy plant standing in front of the bookcase. Somebody help me. Polly

Donna and Polly, you are so cracking me up. "Domestic Goddess"?!? What a promotion, Donna!

And Polly, you wouldn't believe what life is like here with the plants. I was a houseplant freak who hired somebody to do my landscaping, then hired a young man who as an "apprentice mortician" working on his "embalming certification" who drove a '70's Cadillac with zebra-skin seat covers to help me haul the houseplants in and out twice a year.

Then my SO moved in countless years ago and took charge of both. In the springtime, going to the bathroom is a nightly surprise. He trots all these plants in and out of the house day and night to protect them from freezing -- or even getting a bit chilly. The seedlings go in the bathroom so he can close the door to keep the cats from murdering them. So when I go to brush my teeth, there are pots around me with signs saying "Paul Robeson tomatoes" and "Red Maple trees."

It took several repititions to convince him that I needed a path through the plants from the door to the lightswitch. He has good night vision. Mine isn't that great even in the daytime.

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I just knew, besides all your other gifts, that you were a good sport. My heart has been struggling mightily trying to move a quilt top away from 'grandma' and 'Victorian'. Nothing wrong with either but I wanted my composition to sing. Some of my fabric choices were belligerent. Enough about my battle. It tickles me so that you moved into quilting so quickly and so like Julius Caesar. Wasn't it he who said, "I came, I saw, I conquered" ? maybe that was Geronimo. Delighted with your creations. Polly

Facebook doesn't want me to see photos or images of any kind tonight. Who knows?

Polly, why are you struggling? If you want to change the way your quilts look, send someone else to buy the fabric and instruct them to go 'wild'. I bet any of your quilty friends would help. Or, I could just send you a bunch of FQs and instructions to chop them up and put them back together in some way that doesn't involve a pattern. Hehehehehe. I like that idea, actually. Oh, don't worry, I won't have money for fabric for another month or two. But some day .........

Anyway, I love your quilts and don't think they look particularly 'grandma'.

EP, I can't wait to see your pics. Maybe tomorrow that fickle goddess that is Facebook will let me see images again.

Sunny

I strongly suspect that lots of folks have taken the weekend off for Easter. My 'rapid' connection is so slow I can go stitch in another row and come back in time to see photos. I hope tomorrow you'll be able to see EP's pictures. Especially the big spider on page 8. Polly

That'll teach me to read the thread before replying! Roberta in D

Hmmm I love the title " Around the house of a needlework fanatic" by Edna

I am a needlework fanatic who gives most of it away so maybe I could show people your lovely room and pretend it is mine (grin)

Edna (Alice) in Sydney

I love the Churn Dash quilt. It's beautiful :-).

Bev in TX

That's funny, Polly -- "grandma" is just the look I'm looking for!

I like my quilts well enough so far, but I struggle with color. I've never had much talent for color. Heck, I wear black all the time just to avoid the issue. Everything I pack in my suitcase matches :-)

That Churn Dash was a big disappointment, but a learning experience. There's a figure-ground low-contrast problem and that dominant green is ugly in context. But it so happens we've chosen that same green for sashing in one of the shirt quilts, and I really think it will work there.

I'm going to send the Churn Dash off to a friend and tell her to let her two sons get under it when they watch television, with the dog and a bowl of greasy popcorn on top. Every quilt has its proper station in life :-)

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I just posted to Polly that I was disappointed with the color combinations on that one! I feel so much better now that somebody has said they like that one particularly!

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Go for it Edna! We are on opposite sides of the globe; maybe nobody will catch us :-)

I give away a lot of my stuff, too. Especially the stuff I really like, so then I tend to have the lesser beauties in my own home.

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