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Warning!!

If you ever make a quilt that is composed entirely of fabrics that are covered with spots of varying colors and sizes and you think to yourself 'you know, it would be so cute and simple to quilt this with circles all over of different sizes just flowing into each other' -- stop.

Go out into the garage, get the biggest hammer you can find. Go inside. Take your shoes and socks off and beat the bloody daylights out of your toes. If you find yourself still contemplating quilting those cute little circles ALL OVER that nice quilt, go back to the hammering and continue until the urge to free motion quilt thousands and thousands and thousands of little free flowing circles disappears completely from your consciousness.

Then, and only then, may you put the hammer back where it belongs and take yourself to the emergency room. Tell them it was a quilting accident. Have them call me. I'll explain. It will make perfect sense to all concerned.

Love, Sunny (partly mended and trying to quilt)

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Sunny
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Oh good you are at least partly back. Now I can explain my peaches.

Your mom's fried pies sound yummy, but I bet her dried peaches were different from mine. See the ones I have are _freeze dried_ peaches. They are not the orange-bown leathery kind, they are the bright peach colored crunchy kind. Add water, no heat, and you get fresh peaches. I am thinking to try adding a tablespoon or so of brandy (for which I will surely go to hell. Bourbon, _Kentucky_ bourbon most specificly, is what I was taught goes into a peach pie) to the rehydrating water and see how that works when the pie is baked.

It is going to have to wait though. I had thought to make it for tommorow, but kiri has come upon me and using her feminine wiles has convinced me to make a pecan pie instead.

NightMist a sucker for a good use of feminine wiles

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NightMist

I just wanted to let you know that after a LONG tiring day that your post made me LOL!!!!!

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JPgirl

LOL from me too, Sunny. I did some pebbles on a QOV quilt but would Not want to do thousands. Sending you best wishes for a quick recovery. Polly

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Polly Esther

oh my - does this mean you're giving up on the idea?

Musicmaker

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Musicmaker

LOL! I can feel my eyes crossing! Roberta in D

"Sunny" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

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Roberta Zollner

I feel your pain...i once tried to FM hearts that were 2 inches small in an allover pattern....not a pretty picture...it was my first try with FM....i still get chills... LOL!! welcome back, Sunny!

amy in CNY

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amy in CNY

I did not give up. I finished quilting. The quilt is complete with binding, an appliqu=E9 butterfly (it's for another Lupus person) and binding that matches the backing. All that's missing is the label and then it's off to my friend.

The thing is, a terrible number of those circles are not round.

Other than that, it's just perfect.

Sunny glad to be back.

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Sunny

Oh, I wouldn't worry about the circles being round or not. You would need a compass to make a perfect circle. The "idea" of circles should be quite enough. I realize they might be more apparent because there are perfect circles in the fabric....but you made it less mechanical and more organic by putting your loving imperfect circles on it. I'm sure it's wonderful.

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KJ

Sunny, you made me wince in pain and then LOL! I'm glad you did manage to finish the circles -- if some of them aren't round, so what? No one is going to attack them with a compass to check, after all. Do we get to see a photo of this wonder?

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Sandy

Too late, I did that with animals on a baby quilt for my friend.

Never again, not ever, no never no more.

Di

PS, didn't think about the hammer :>}

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DiMa

As Kathyl said, I'm sure it is just lovely. Way to hang in there with it!!

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Charlotte

I think you are safe. Don't they say that the acohol part disipates and you just have the flavor of it?

GrammyKathy

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grammykathy

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