Scrappy Siggie Block Swap-special note on pge 150- Closed
05-13-2010, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by cmsmith46580
I'm sending priority mail as I have a box that will only cost me about 4.95.
Don't forget to put them in plastic before you put them in any envelope or box with your return address label just in case of a snafu!
05-13-2010, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Dkm
I have the same question, but haven't seen any answers yet.
The question: What's the best way to mail.
The question: What's the best way to mail.
05-13-2010, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by sewjoyce
Originally Posted by Dkm
I have the same question, but haven't seen any answers yet.
The question: What's the best way to mail.
The question: What's the best way to mail.
05-13-2010, 08:45 PM
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Oh Judie I know what you mean about crying. I have been crying so much. I never know when it is going to hit me. He has only been gone for three days but to me it feels like forever.
Originally Posted by Judie
I hardest thing I ever did was watch my son leave for boot camp... from there he went overseas and was gone for 3 years. He had some time off during that time but used it to see some of the world rather than come home.. I cried the entire time I think.. My husband spent 32 years in the Navy... that wasn't as hard as watching my son leave.. I know where you are.. The men and women who go are what keeps our country safe. I thank God for them and pray He keeps them safe. When a man serves, his family serves too. Thank you for your son, and for your husband. We are all proud of our service personnel. I'll be remembering you tonight too.
05-14-2010, 06:20 AM
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i mail all of my swap squares in tyvek priority envelopes from the post office, they hold up to any abuse the postal workers put them through and are (weather proof). usually costs $5-$6 to send them.
they are kind of boring blocks to make, and it is remarkable that i'm doing it since i pretty much NEVER make the same block twice...but i found they go together really fast, when i first signed up (on a different forum) for this same swap i went in and had 100 stitched in about 1/2 an hour, clipped the corners (when i stitched them i sewed on the diagnal line and then turned around and stitched 1/4" outside the line so when i clipped the corners i had 200 1/2 square triangles done at the same time) tossed all the little blocks into a large ziplock grabbed my pigma pens and headed to work...when i first started signing them after about 15-20 i thought, I will never get these done...writing on them is the worst...but even that got easier as i went along and i had them all done in that one shift. the motivation was the vision of the quilt they will become :) but i have found for just mindless filler activity they are great! i work in the private duty medical field and have 'down time' ...time when the client is asleep and i just need to be awake...sit quietly and sew... if i try to read my book i fall asleep, so sewing all night, or working on projects like this makes my time go by so much better. i work 16 hour shifts, and that can get LONG but with these blocks, if my client gets up it is so easy to just set the block down and go back to it later, no worry about where you left off. between the 2 forum swaps i'm doing these for i will have about 225 siggy blocks, and i have a whole bunch of scrappy little 9 patches from a swap a few years ago i never knew what to do with...evidently they had a purpose, i just wasn't there yet...they are going to go so well putting these together.! now i am excited about these!!!
they are kind of boring blocks to make, and it is remarkable that i'm doing it since i pretty much NEVER make the same block twice...but i found they go together really fast, when i first signed up (on a different forum) for this same swap i went in and had 100 stitched in about 1/2 an hour, clipped the corners (when i stitched them i sewed on the diagnal line and then turned around and stitched 1/4" outside the line so when i clipped the corners i had 200 1/2 square triangles done at the same time) tossed all the little blocks into a large ziplock grabbed my pigma pens and headed to work...when i first started signing them after about 15-20 i thought, I will never get these done...writing on them is the worst...but even that got easier as i went along and i had them all done in that one shift. the motivation was the vision of the quilt they will become :) but i have found for just mindless filler activity they are great! i work in the private duty medical field and have 'down time' ...time when the client is asleep and i just need to be awake...sit quietly and sew... if i try to read my book i fall asleep, so sewing all night, or working on projects like this makes my time go by so much better. i work 16 hour shifts, and that can get LONG but with these blocks, if my client gets up it is so easy to just set the block down and go back to it later, no worry about where you left off. between the 2 forum swaps i'm doing these for i will have about 225 siggy blocks, and i have a whole bunch of scrappy little 9 patches from a swap a few years ago i never knew what to do with...evidently they had a purpose, i just wasn't there yet...they are going to go so well putting these together.! now i am excited about these!!!
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