Maybe - take some pictures of the meet-up at the Festival? I would love to see them and wish I was an East Coast girl for a day!

NONNIE

Well I checked it out and loved it! Yes, a genuine hand made Hawaiian quilt is something that is a treasured gift, something that most people don’t ever get a chance to own in a lifetime. My mom has a couple…we were always told that you don’t sit on a Hawaiian quilt and they were treated with respect. So I loved them, but kind of feared them. I would love to make one as a bucket list item..LOL! Thanks again.

Aloha, Connie

I use the cardboard pattern boxes for apparel patterns for the bulk of my patterns and then some binders for blocks of the months like Margaret.

I am addicted to “command strips” and all the hooks and so forth that you can hang up. My favorite is the one that is actually a clip and that is what I have on my wall above my cutting board so I can hang and see the pattern I am actually working with easily.

Thanks for your podcasts!

First, thanks for addressing my question about the Quilty Resolutions! I hope you can find a way for us to review ‘em.

As for Overnight Oatmeal in the slow cooker — my favourite recipe uses steel cut oats. I’m cooking for one, but make a 1/2 recipe (found on Dr. Oz’s ‘Real Age’ website), and store it in the refrigerator. Then I microwave each serving whenever I want it. I’ve even frozen it and reheated it later!

And re: pattern storage: I have 3 systems — binders for freebie print-outs and hand-outs from classes, with dividers re: Blocks of the Month, full quilts, and home decor (table toppers etc.); magazine containers for patterns in magazines (I don’t like to cut ‘em up!); and a hook on my sewing room pegboard for hanging commercial patterns in plastic envelopes. All work quite well; I go through them every few years and cull/give away what I think I’ll no longer use — or get around to using!

Thanks for a great podcast, and keep ‘em coming!

I then took the cooked oatmeal and divided it up into plastic containers and put them in the freezer. I take several out at a time and put them in the fridge. In the mornings I pop it into the microwave for a couple minutes, add my yogurt, banana, and cinnamon, stir and eat out of the same container. Makes a great quick breakfast! If I forget to take some out of the freezer, I just cook it a bit longer. I love Quaker’s Steele Cut oats and am now using that. I find the nutty chewy meal it makes is yummy!

What I like about January is that I become obsessed with organizing and making lists of projects to do. Long live the label maker! This is very inspiring because just touching my stuff and moving things around kind of gets the juices flowing and I can also prioritize some things in a deliberate fashion rather than just diving in without much of a strategy.

Another great episode Sandy! - now go to bed!

Can you please post a link to it?

Thanks Nonnie,

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Love the podcast as usual. I hope to attend the quilt show on the Saturday. It will be my first time at a big show and I’d love to meet the people behind the voices that keep me company when I’m quilting.

The charity chairs have been making packets of 2.5×2.5 squares and putting them together in sets to make one 16 patch block. I made one last month and 4 this month. They use white as the background and then the packets have different fabrics of the same color. I took red this time. This was a huge success. They received a giant pile of finished blocks, were able to finish 2 quilts and gave away all the packets they made up for January. It is really a great block: easy, but not boring. We have a member with an Accuquilt Go and she brought and cut a lot of background pieces for them at the meeting. It was a great experience all around.

It also just occurred to me that it would be a good example of repetition with variety!