Thanks so much for making me feel welcome, everyone. it's a geography lesson, getting pictures in my head of quilters in all the different parts of the US, Canada, my own Australia etc taking time out to say hello. I'll certainly begin posting responses to others' posts, now. (hopefully when I've got something to say, not just blathering)
PS it's autumn here after a hot spell and we have mice in the ceiling - yech! Better than bushfires, at any rate.