LOVE THIS BOARD THANKS MODERATORS FOR LETTING US SHARE OUR DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS

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Now, I'm curious to just how many of us are on this board. Moderator, can you share? I've heard there are approx. 30 million quilters in the world.

I love this board too !!!

This is the way to go.

Who knew that I was a real quilter before I even knew this board existed. I used some of these secrets without knowing they were dirty little secrets of so many!

Oh. It is time for me to get off of here and get some things done. Darn>>>>>>>and I was just getting to the good stuff.

Since I joined this board, (happy day that I did), I have been adding "dirty little secrets" aka my bookmaks at a alarming rate from all the great people and their stuff :!:

That is a good tip...

Those aren't dirty little secrets, they are how things get done in the real world by frail, humble, and occasionally venal humans, and they apply to anything you can think of which is paid or unpaid work.
Ever NOT got the Q-tip out to clean the dust from around the sash lock or the corners of the window sash muntins?
Ever filed something in the no-one-will-look-at-this-again-in-my-lifetime pile?
Ever forgot to dust on top of the door casing?
Ever rounded 49 cents UP?
Ever pretended you forgot your oil change as a few hundred or more? miles overdue?
Ever hit the DELETE button on an email you may not need to answer right away?
Ever NOT RECEIVED that phone message from Aunt Tilda wanting to know why you don't have a brood of kids yet?
Ever heard of the law of diminishing returns?
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Geez never thought of them as dirty little secrets but more of quilter's survival techniques. I agree this board is great.

Thank you for starting this post. It is great. I'm sure we all have some "dirty little secrets" we do and don't even remember until we do them again. Quilters are a unique group of people. MOST of us play well with others, we love to share, we are compassionate, we have a good sense of humor, we love to gab,and we love fabric. Of course we need to remember there are exceptions to every rule. I also love this board. Great people here!!!!

I love it all!

My husband told me to get my own email address because our joint one was getting crammed with "quilt stuff". So now I have a "real" email and a "quilt" email... this is said from his vantage point! :)

It's called working smarter, not harder!

NOT dirty secrets, creative solutions~!!

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I like redesigning...good one..

If you look at "Home" you will see that (as of this post) there are 34445 registered users. Who knows how many others read the board regularly but haven't registered yet!

There's actually quite a bit of interesting information there - like how many posts in the past 24 hours (7756).

I made a paper-pieced wall hanging for my sister 2 years ago. On a couple of the seams, I didn't have enough seam allowance, and the seams popped open when it was quilted. Because it was a frog/pond scene, I bought some iron-on appliques of ladybugs and butterflies to place over the ragged seams.

The effect was perfect, my sister loves her wall hanging, so it was a win-win.

Are those things one is supposed to do?
As long as I don't lose a Q-tip when cleaning my ear all is well. lol

I think if they were really dirty little secrets we wouldn't be sharing them in a public forum. On the other hand, that seems to be the one of the main purposes of facebook, and look how successful it is.

I see you are from Maryland, I'm on the Eastern Shore of Md.
I think we all have some secrets on how we put our quilts together...I know I do.

Way to go.....You need your own e-mail address, you need to privately view jokes about DH's and comments when we just have to grumble about something bizarre he is doing.... or when we are sick(oh God, Please not that) and they hap-hazzardly care for us. After all we need our own E-mail. FRIENDS and FELLOW QUILTERS (GUYS CAN COMPLAIN TOO).......Stand up and clap. This is a victory not to be missed.

Way to go.....You need your own e-mail address, you need to privately view jokes about DH's and comments when we just have to grumble about something bizarre he is doing.... or when we are sick(oh God, Please not that) and they hap-hazzardly care for us. After all we need our own E-mail. FRIENDS and FELLOW QUILTERS (GUYS CAN COMPLAIN TOO).......Stand up and clap. This is a victory not to be missed.

The QB is the best place to find lots of little secrets!!!
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good idea about starting a notebook.

Ditto!!! (to all the above comments!!!

As Quilters part of our oath(s) should include "I make no mistakes, just creative adjustments!" :) Got to love the attitudes of creative people!

Patti,
Love your post and love your name! My maiden name is Mahoney and I have a brother named Pat!

Yes i think we all enjoy this site and i know i look forward to it each day .Is lots of secrets that are helpfull but if your a quilter is ok we share them with each other..

So how was it Rolling Out LaughingFloor?

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Is There a Quilter's oath? I knew there was a Quilter's Pox...It is the only disease it is ok to share and we do it with such grace. Oh Yes, there is an attitude that goes there.

*and 'design decisions'.

Now take a deep breath, and let it out real slow. Relax. Breathe. lol!

Do we really have secrets? The great thing about this board is that we all share our "secrets".

There's dust on the TOP of doors??????????????

I just did a "Dirty Little Secret" yesterday. I'm making pot holders and learning to do free hand quilting on the machine. When I finished quilting the first one, turned it over and straight down the middle, diagonally, There was an over lap of fabric a quarter inch deep. I was mortified. So------I turned the excess over to one side, stitched it down, then sent to the other side and stitched to match.

Geeeese am I dumb.

"Secrets"? In quilting we call them "Tips", simple sematics.

Imagine the secrets our quilting "foremothers" must have had! I can't help but wonder what they'd think of the internet and our Little Board.

Fun post. J J