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to: JULIA SIDEBOTTOM
from: PAT KNOX
date: 1997-05-17 08:52:00
subject: MQBE

Julia Sidebottom wrote in a message to Pat Knox:
> I paper pieced a geometric block for her.  It looks like a log cabin, 
> but 
> with arrows in two of the corners.  The arrows were done in black 
> (leftovers
> from the ESAP quilts) and the rest of the logs were done in hand-dyed 
> fabrics
> in graduating colors.  The block has no name, but I called it "Life, 
> Which
> Way is UP?"!
 JS> Well here it is the 15th of the month and I am just now getting the
 JS> energy to get started on my block obligations for here.  Hard for
 JS> me to believe I am soooo slow... I think though that I got inspired
 JS> to get going because of the Clewsew Mystery Quilt that I am working
 JS> on.  
 JS>   I knew that part #9 was coming out and I had not completed part
 JS> #8... so I "forced" myself to do part #8, grabbed part  #9 and did
 JS> both of them yesterday... Part #9 was a "nightmare" for me... and I
 JS> finally settled on an arrangement that I could live with ...
 JS> and who knows if it is what the author had in mind... 
A lot of people are not happy with the way that mystery turned out.  One
lady I know of has already put her borders on and is calling it an unsolved
mystery because she doesn't intend to finish it!  I kinda like mine though.
 JS>  So now it is going on 9:00am here and I am up to get my block
 JS> obligations done here for Fido... but first I had to be sure what
 JS> was chosen by our winners... ...
Hehe!  Sounds like me!
 JS>   And because I am here to look at the block suggestions... I am
 JS> also going to be sure to put this burst of energy to work and do a
 JS> bit of posting at the same time... ..
 JS>  Your block for Doris sounds beautiful!  I wish I were so
 JS> creative!!!! 
Creative?  Hmm, I just grabbed my Carol Doak book and did a block out of
there that caught my fancy.  Knew Doris would like the hand-dyeds that I
have so I used a small piece of some of them in the block!
Later!,
           Pat 
--- timEd/386 1.10+
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