Originally Posted by pansypenny
When I read your first tale of the LQS, and realized where you were/are, I just KNEW it had to be R's...right? That shop is about 8 mi. from my house and I've pretty much stopped going there. sad.
THEN.................the episode at the Blue Angels (weren't they awesome - as usual) really clinched it for me. In this AM's Record Eagle, there was a letter from someone who COMPLAINED that the Blue Angels were going over his house and they made "too much noise". I suspect his wife is your QP woman!! Some people.....and they walk among us!
Andd they weren't 'going over his house' because one of the 'rules' of the Blues' air shows is that they NOT fly over residences. He probably wasn't actually WATCHING - he just heard the noise and is a regular complainer about anything/everything. Though, from what the husband said to the self-appointed QP B***H, I think it may have been a different man.
I always give the 'It's ok to sit on your quilt; It's ok to spit on your quilt' poem with the baby quilt I give away, because I want them to be used. I also machine quilt them, so they'll stand up to machine washing & drying - and I say that on the label, and in the note I write about 'How to care for your quilt.'
Maybe I've already said this, but I'll say it again - I give quilts to be used, and I have great proof that at least one of mine has been well-used. Currently, I'm mending a lap quilt I made originally for my batchelor son in '97. He met and married Susan the following year, and their now 9 year old younger son has loved it enough to need mending. I replaced some of the patches. I machine embroidered them with his current animal favorite - elephants. I will add a new label to the back "Henry's Elephant Quit, embroidered and mended, 2010.'