Sent my SP package out today

I have mailed mine today.
I hope she likes it?

Well....my last item didn’t come today. 😐. I’m much closer to the deadline than I like but will give it another day. Hang in there SP...it’s worth the wait (I hope!). 😊

Pamela, mine is first going out today, too, so I am sure your pal understands. We've all been there waiting for something to arrive so we can redistribute.

My secret pal has over 250 posts on this board

Just put my package in the mail. My secret pal's zip code adds up to 16 and is traveling east of me (LOL... I am in CA, most everything goes east).

Verna, your Quilt Diva is awesome and so are you bags. So nice to hear from you and that you get time to sew.

Well....Have4 isn't my secret pal, as my zipcode adds up to 17. I was just one number off!

mine either, my zip code is 20 something.

Is it me? My zip code adds up to...16! And I'm east of almost all of you!

Gaijin

Verna, your Quilt Diva is awesome!
Guess Have4 is not my SP. My zip code adds up to 23!
Planning to mail a package to my SP tomorrow. Hope she likes it!

Sent my package today, SP should get it tomorrow. Hope you like your treasures!

Well, most of the package are in transit... should be some pictures soon of everyone's loot. My SP package gets delivered tomorrow.

Received my SP package to day from Kwyltaholic. Loved everything

Wow! What a wonderful package, I spy some Tula!

Thank you hav4boys. Trying to get some sewing caught up, cant do a lot of sewing at one sit down.

Thank you everyone for the nice words on my Quilt Diva

You are sew welcomed Juanita.
I am glad you like it.

Well, not so good news on the home front. My mother-in-law lives with us and last week she had a growth removed from her upper gum (where a wisdom tooth would be). Pathology came back. Invasive squamous cell carcinoma. We will be off to UC San Francisco next week. The cancer was in all the tissue removed, not just the tumor. My MIL is trying to be positive, but she is real with me. We had a good talk this morning. I told her we are all in this together.

ON a positive note, I received my package from BrendaK. Pictures will post this evening.

hav4: I am so sorry to hear about your MIL. I pray she will be okay.

On a more positive note, my secret pal was sent her package today. Whew. Right under the wire. But, I hope she likes it. And she is too young to use age as an excuse for anything :)

That's the last of my hints. :D

Thank you, hav4boys!
 

Received my swap package from hav4boys today! A magazine, quilt marking kit, 15 patterns, a book, 3 different lovely fabrics, a sweet tin filled with clips, and a packet of decorative buttons! Wow! I love everything!

Many, many thanks,

Deborah (Gaijin)

I received my package from BrendaK. I love it all. Cannot wait to read the books.
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i have those same clips, I absolutely love mine!

that little turtle, he makes me smile evertime I see this picture (well, both times I’ve seen it so far anyway...)

a little fairy told me I have a package coming today!

Happy to report all packages are in transit or received.

Received a wonderful package of goodies from my secret pal! I love everything and will put it to good use. She must have ESP to know I'm a tea lover, as she included a cute little spoon topped by a teapot and a sweet teapot ornament.
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i love those little sewing bandaids, I needed one the other day, I was trying to knot some hand sewing my son was doing to repair his jeans and I stabbed my self hard in the finger with his huge sashiko needle. Boy did it bleed. It even scabbed over which I don’t remember ever happening on a puncture wound before.

My package was was supposed to be delivered yesterday but never showed up. They have it listed as out for delivery again today...we have a really flakey local post office here. Mail delivered at 10pm, packages to wrong houses, and sudden changes to a packages timeline through the system, all common place here. At least we get to know our neighbors.

those are some great looking packages!!

My package arrived! Big thank you to restilletos for all these wonderful goodies. Just look at this fabulous batik! So many fabrics to help build my stash. I love it all....Thank you!
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Pam, I'm glad you got it okay! I know I mailed it at the last minute and had to make you wait. Waiting is Hard! LOL
Glad you enjoyed the batik! I fell in love with it when I saw it in the store!

Waiting to hear from two (packages should be there today) an then will list next month. Thank you all for keeping me posted on when you mailed. It is greatly appreciated.

Okay... everyone... to make things fun... I have a prize for the first person to send me a PM with the name of oldest quilt still around today... GO!

OMG.....look!
 

I love all the packages, and I am hoping mine doesn't make anyone else feel bad...but LOOK what my secret pal wbfrog gave me!

I said I was hoping to get "beachy" colored fabric so I could make a few makeup bags etc, for when we go on our trip to Punta Cana this fall....and look what I received! OMG! There's yardage of the most gorgeous island color batiks! They are fabulous!

Then, as if that wasn't enough, she stuffed it full of some Tonga Treat batiks, a cute pattern, ribbon, towels, stencil for actually quilting a finished item, and the cutest little eyeglass case.

Thank you SO much! I loved it all!!

Oh my goodness!
I received my SP today. (It must have arrived a couple of days ago!)
Everything is sew wonderful. I love the socks, pins, fabrics, (especially the mermaids)
the pattern is wonderful, and the dog treats (they're already opened!)
I love everything. Thank you sew much PamelaOry.
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WOW! Love all the patterns!

I’m so glad it made it, I was beginning to worry....it didn’t have that far to go. ;)

Okay... we have a winner. PamelaOry sent the correct answer to the oldest quilt still in existence, The Tristan Quilt. A surprise is headed to Pamela.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]596292[/ATTACH]Detail of the Tristan quilt showing a noble and a herald.

The Tristan Quilt, sometimes called the Tristan and Isolde Quilt or the Guicciardini Quilt, is one of the earliest surviving quilts in the world. Depicting scenes from the story of Tristan and Isolde, an influential romance and tragedy, it was made in Sicily during the second half of the 14th century. There are at least two extant sections of the quilt, one of which is displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, and the other in the Bargello in Florence. A third quilt, also depicting Tristan and Isolde, but not thought to be part of the V&A and Bargello examples, is held in private hands. The Tristan Quilts are the only known surviving examples of medieval quilts.

Detail of a knight's hands and arms. Surface wear has exposed the wadding beneath.
The quilt is made from two layers of linen, stitched together with wadding in between. Backstitch in cream and brown linen thread defines a series of pictures with captions that have been brought into relief by inserting rolls of cotton stuffing to raise sections of the design. The stuffing could have been introduced during the quilting process, or because the backing layer is looser in weave, its threads could have been parted to introduce the stuffing; some elements are done using cord quilting.

I have posted July Secret Pal:
https://www.quiltingboard.com/member...a-t297740.html

I received my package from Bullock2us-Ginger. I got my most wanted double seam ripper, a super cute tea towel, thread, pins, notecards, lots of fabric, a July 4th table runner and door hanger. I tried my picture of them and it doesn't like it here again on this site.

The pictures are awesome packages this month. I haven't been on much. I am hosting a quilting retreat in August, and an Ice Cream Social at church next month, Church picnic in September,and a fundraiser for my charity group in October, Thanksgiving dinner at Church, so I just have been covered up with things. I will probably be sitting out for a few months to just be safe and focus on all the things I need to get done. I will pop in and checkout all the goodies that you receive. Great group of gals!