shameless beg

well as long as you don't want them to be exactly 2 1/2" squares I'll send some. May be slightly oversized one way or the other.

Sounds like fun! I think I've finally realized that I'm not likely going to complete any insane projects like that! I would like to see someone else do it tho!

Marilyn in sunny, Alberta Canada

Has your address changed recently? I have about 5 years of baseball swap squares that will probably help out. :)

I'd really, really love to help you out but...... My hands are not so good right now (arthritis) and cutting a few hundred squares would do me in. Can you use scraps that are odd shaped but small enough that each will handle only one 2.5 in. square? In other words, not large scraps but irregular smallish scraps. You'll have to do your own cutting, but I'll gladly send you all the smaller scraps I have in my BIG scrap basket! Lots of them are batiks, too. VBG WARNING: proud dog-owner and ashamed smoker(s), so probably all my scraps will be slightly "contaminated".... You won't hurt my feelings if a little dog hair and smoke-odors will bother you and you have to decline my offer. I'll still love you! ;-)

Leslie (who does NOT do scraps!) & The Furbabies > there I've said it! I'm going to shamelessly beg for 2 1/2"squares of

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Jessamy, Send me your snail mail. I left the most recent RCTQ mailing list in the old computer that has now been stripped of everything it ever knew:) I know I can make a contribution to your project.

Another smoker with feline furbabies awaiting the answer. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Hey Jessamy! I'll be rootling through my stuff this weekend and see what I can come up with. I'm printing out you beg so I can have it with my while I dig. Might be fun, who knows what I'll find!

no problem Leslie :-) I'm happy with anything that I can just about get a 2

thanks!

my addy is unchanged - I haven't moved house since 1997 so my addy is the same in all the directories since I first got in it hehehe

thanks!

slightly larger isn't a problem nor is not exactly square - some of the scraps I have dug up are rather lopsided and are working nicely anyway :-)

Thanks Debi!

feline hairs are also not a problem Debra :-)

thanks!

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:25:08 -0600, Jessamy wrote (in article ):

I'll see what I kind find. I'm hoping to have lots of chunks of fabric left from finished tops after this weekends retreat, so I'll cut 5" squares out of them for me and 2.5" ones for you.

Maureen

Thanks Maureen!

I'll start looking this evening. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I'll bet I have some, I'll look on Saturday. But almost 4000 squares?!!! Good heavens. Better thee than me, I think.

thanks!

well I need something to keep me occupied during the commercials on TV I managed nearly 50 last night so it won't take all that long LOL

Jess, You should join the Inklingo list. There is talk of a hexagon swap, with Inklingo, of course. (Inklingo is software, from Linda Franz, which prints sewing and cutting lines on the back of freezer paper backed fabrics. Very, very, extremely fine lines not in black so should wash out and not be at all visible from the front anyway. Go to the website, Linda's, and you can see more about it. ) I am working on a hexagon quilt with 1" sides now. Swore I would never do it because I did not, do not ever, want to "baste to papers" of any kind, then whipstitch the hexes together. Lots of neat things about Inklingo, and the first CD is hexes, diamonds and assorted shapes. #2 is half and quarter square triangles, and several more are planned. I am associated with this in that I love the program, and have permission to teach using it. Do not otherwise make any money from it. But with this you can machine sew, hand sew or combine the two. It is a wonderful way to go and saves sooooooooo much prep time compared to the "old fashioned way".

Sorry to run on about it..... (that is another story see later thread....) But I do love the new technology being put to use in such neat ways. (Linda has applied for a patent on this technique, it is that good and different. )

Pati, > there I've said it! I'm going to shamelessly beg for 2 1/2"squares of

Shameless you may be but it is for a good cause. Anything to help another quilter. Send your snail mail address and I will get them off by Monday. Most may be in chunks but there will be a large variety. Hope thse work for you.

Michele

Thanks for the info Pati but I really do prefer sewing by hand as it's so hard to carry a sewing machine in my pocket when I'm out and about and hanging around in waiting rooms or sitting with my feet up on the sofa at night ;-) Papers keep my seams straight and whip stitching is actually a way I *like* sewing strangely enough LOL but for people not into English Paper Piecing this is probably the way to go