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Yes , quilt and quilt and quilt, those beautiful motifs !!!
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Well I took my chocolate last night, and today we put up our Christmas decorations. I need a shower before I touch my fabulous fabric. But now I have another problem. Looked in the box of my tree skirt and placemats. I will absolutely need new quilted ones! So shower then more chocolate....and on to the next project.
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Chocolate is the cure for a lot of things!
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Did you know that Dolly Pardon has her "coat of many colors" On display in her museum at Dollywood in The Great Smokey Mountains of Tenn. Been there many times up till a few yrs ago. It is a GREAT place to go. Check on the net about it.
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I really think that we are blessed to have this addiction. How sad for those people that don't have this passion, and miss "seeing" things the way we do!
I was once putting the dental bib on a male patient, making small talk before his cleaning, when, all of a sudden I realized the I really "needed" to have his shirt for a quilt, and before I knew it, I had said it out loud. Poor man thought I was crazy. |
It's in the DNA of every quilter, I believe. When I was employed I used to have to drive up to 5 hours between clients in remote areas of NSW. During every season, I noticed that the colours in my quilts reflected the colours of the vegetation/flowers that were in the paddocks and growing along the roads.
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chocolate for me....
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I work in a sheet metal shop and see quilt patterns in sheet metal stainless and in copper. Today I bought the Dremel Trio and am going to try and make my own groovy boards, so that I have more patterns when I use my HQ.
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I teach little kids and we have blocks of different colors and shapes called tangrams. They are used to make a picture on a card. I love to let the kids just put the shapes together in pretty patterns and shapes....I am always thinking..wow wish i had my camera what an awesome quilt block that would make!!!!!
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dh took me to the adams (john & john quincy) homestead for my birthday last august... @ the last house (name escapes me at the moment) there is a separate outbuilding which was the first presidential type library...
while we were in there (on a tour with park rangers) i was kneeling on the floor... the mosaic was an ohio star pattern... the ranger told me i was the 3rd woman to tell him that... |
DH bought a 3# box of chocolates today. Think I'll take two and let you know in the morning if it helped. If not will try a couple more. :lol:
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I live in Kentucky and there are quilt blocks on barns. See quilts even while driving.
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Originally Posted by klgreene
while I was washing the pizza cutter, the only thing that came to mind was...oh my goodness I wonder how this would work cutting material.
I think I really need a pill.....or maybe just chocolate. And I have taken pictures of flooring in convenience stores, bathrooms...just about anywhere...thinking it would either make a great quilt pattern or a great quilting pattern! I vote for the chocolate.........'tis a lovely sickness, isn't it? |
dig in to the chocolate and enjoy !!!
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Chocolate V pill Hum. Hows about M&M's or Reeses pieces? Both looks like a pill. No one would have to know. They do melt in your mouth & not in your hand. Not as much a chance o d ing on those type of pills. Think I'll make a trip to the store before the fabric shop. Then I won't feel so bad knowing I picked up my meds first. HEE! HEE!
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If there is a pill - Who wants it? I love seeing quilt stuff every where.
As far as the chocolate - I like seeing that everywhere too |
If there's a pill for this I can't afford it. Nothing left over after buying fabric and replacement blades.
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Why would you want a cure for this? Keeps the brain young!
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Yep. It's a sickness. But I don't really want to get well. Give me some chocolate.
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For sure chocolate
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Happens to me all the time . Did anybody else ever see the quilt in the tile floor of the McD's restroom? I do.
But, I'm allergic to chocolate !! Hubby doesn't cook.
Originally Posted by klgreene
The other night my DH made a pizza, which he does far to often. He cooks, I clean up. Works great. But while I was washing the pizza cutter, the only thing that came to mind was...oh my goodness I wonder how this would work cutting material. I didn't ofcourse, but the brain is only working one way right now. Then the other night was watching Christmas at Rockefeller center. It was really nice, but when the program ended and the peacock showed up...all I could think about was, on my goodness it's 1/2 Dresden plate. Then just a few minutes ago Wendy's Quilts a member here posted a picture of her puppy wearing his new "coat of many colors" then that made me think....Oh my goodness does Dolly Parton still have her coat of many colors she sang about, and would she now understand just how lucky she was.
I think I really need a pill.....or maybe just chocolate. |
:lol: Eat the chocolate, it lasts longer.
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Go for the chocolate, Luv... chocolate makes everything better, always! :) I'm sure your mother and your grandmother, and your great-grandmother would tell you the same thing. Konstantin recently listed a bunch of things we can use for quillting tools - did anyone notice if he mentioned pizza cutters?
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Originally Posted by FarmStitcher
Well, I must have it too, because I saw a foldy origami airplane pattern and used it to make a quilt block!
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Originally Posted by luvTooQuilt
I can relate.. I walk in to a room and see the patterns on the tile or carpet and imagine a quilt block.. :oops:
And regards to the chocolate... make it dark chocolate...then you can say it's medicinal! lol! :lol: |
Originally Posted by lillybeck
I peresonally think we are blessed to be able to think outside the box. My thinking is not always quilts because I am a retired preschool teacher but I always look at things different than others do whether it is material or paint rollers. I was lokking for a green paint roller at Lowes once and the gentleman finally siad very politely "Mam, you can paint with any color of roller it does not have to be a certain color."lol
Of course I told him it had to be green if you were making a caterpillar out of it. |
HIGHLY contagious! (smile)
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You Ladies Are A Hoot! That is what the affliction is called "Quilitis" & never can get enough of that bitterswt choc. or those colorful M & M s.
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Originally Posted by klgreene
The other night my DH made a pizza, which he does far to often. He cooks, I clean up. Works great. But while I was washing the pizza cutter, the only thing that came to mind was...oh my goodness I wonder how this would work cutting material. I didn't ofcourse, but the brain is only working one way right now. Then the other night was watching Christmas at Rockefeller center. It was really nice, but when the program ended and the peacock showed up...all I could think about was, on my goodness it's 1/2 Dresden plate. Then just a few minutes ago Wendy's Quilts a member here posted a picture of her puppy wearing his new "coat of many colors" then that made me think....Oh my goodness does Dolly Parton still have her coat of many colors she sang about, and would she now understand just how lucky she was.
I think I really need a pill.....or maybe just chocolate. My most memorable quilt block is on the marble floor of the church at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Alabama. While sitting in silence I just couldn't help but sketch a pattern for one of the blocks. :oops: I'll get two birds with one stone: I just have to comment on Lillybeck's story of the green paint roller. I'm thinking those Lowes people must really think some of us are "touched in the head." I'm always in there looking for things to use in my cake decorating, whether it is a special wire to use to mount "floating" stars, or PAINT ROLLERS to smooth icing, or foam insulation to form designs in icing. Kinda like the run on blades for the rotary cutter at Harbor Freight. :lol: |
I do this when I am out shopping and see a window display or a painting or just tile on the floor and wallpaper patterns. We have an illness and I hope they never come up with a pill, it would kill my imagination and ruin all my fun. You go girl!!
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I think that just goes to show that inspiration is all around us! I have started carrying my camera with me, so I can take a photo of what inspires me or gets my mind to thinking about designs - lol!
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Originally Posted by cbridges22
We are replacing our ceiling in our kitchen with grooved wood panels and there are two points in the middle where it will intersect.I ask my DH if he could make it look like a log cabin block,he laughed and said of course.I am lucky to have a DH that gets it.
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Your too funny. Go for the Chocolate, real fast, go now!!
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As I read this thread I could not help but see how we are all friends by what we enjoy but are joined by the heart and that is why this group is so wonderful and makes you feel accepted and loved by all. Thanks to all the wonderful quilters and their big open friendly hearts.
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LOL the funny thing is that is how some fabric is made by the designers... was watching Fons and Porter on the tele there was a fabric designer on talking about her inspiration for fabrics and she said something simular to this and yes the chocolate is much better than pills. this disorder is soo much fun!!!!!!
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In October my DH and I went to the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, NM. As I began to see the beautiful balloons, all I could see in them were quilt patterns. In fact, I always have wanted to do a bargello quilt and could not figure out how it was done. I saw a design in a balloon and finally realized that it was a bargello pattern and I could see how you would put one together ... Yep! We see Quilt Patterns in everything.
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and CHOCOLATE is not the cure! Those little squares with designs on them ...
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and CHOCOLATE is not the cure! Those little squares with designs on them ...
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Originally Posted by Grandmama Pat
Yes, a mental disorder called Quiltitis.
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Originally Posted by klgreene
LOL I'm so glad I'm not alone. It really is a disorder....it's probably one of the only disorders I actually like.
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