*** Quoting Penny Powers to Julia Sidebottom dated 02-19-97 ***
>     Yep I know just what you mean about withdrawl.  I am going through
>     that right now with no cross stitching mail.  We are still unable 
> to
>     get any messages here from the cross stitching echo and I really
>     miss discuss threads and stuff....  How is you move going?  We will
>     be moving to Sioux Falls South Dakota here very soon.  My husband
>     got a job with Gateway 2000 and I am excited about the changes
>     taking place here.  We even have a buyer for my home.  So there is
>     nothing holding us back presently.  Take care and thought I would
>     let you know that I just finished my quilt top yesterday.  I have
>     some side sashing I want to do and then I will put a back on it and
>     tie it.  I was thinking of machine quilting but I just don't want 
> to
>     try that right now.  Anyway have fun and don't do too much!
Right now I am playing catch up... there are currently some 400+ messages 
here in this echo so I am taking the time to spend right here right now!!!!  
I was wanting to get in here yesterday and the day before, but everytime I 
came in here I just did not have the energy to persue what I wanted to do and 
would have to go back and lay down again... no energy... seems I am fighting 
an infections...and antibotics that I started yesterday seem to be doing the 
trick already as I am feeling much better.... my breathing is better and the 
pain in my back is almost gone...  and I am definitly staying awake 
more than 20 minutes at a time!
  The move is continuing to go slowly but surely...  I am excited for you!!! 
the move to SD sounds like it will be a good change for you!
  I am slowly quilting the Blocks of the Bible Quilt I am making... I am 
machine quilting it, and I have made one mistake that  for some reason I 
can't seem to fix ... that's what I get for doing it in a brain fog.. 
...  so I guess it is just going to be there forever... I am almost 1/2 
done with it now... I am still hand quilting away on my wall hanging ... I will do that though when I am sitting around in the evening doing 
my TV watching  ...
  I was looking at some of my machine quilting today as I was working on this 
quilt and I was saying to myself, "well, it may not be perfect, or even close 
to good, but it is mine and for that reason alone I "like" it!!!" It doesn't 
matter to me if it is not perfect!  Especially considering my poor motor 
skills and lack of control on some functions... I think the machine quilting 
I do comes out ok... it may not be anything special to write home about but 
it is very servicable.... and my quilts are made to be servicable and used... 
 I keep trying to improve my skills, of course, and am as I go... but I will 
never be one that can enter my quilts in contest ... but I 
will always have fun quilting no matter what!!!
Julia
--- He Lives! 
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