Quilters Cliches:
A creative mess is better than idle neatness.
A block a day keeps the doctor away.
Old quilters never die, they just go batts!
A stitch in time is right before the quilt
show deadline.
Quilters arenít greedy, theyíre
just materialistic.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighborís
stash. Thou shalt swap and share.
Author Cindy Thury Smith
Dear God,
So Far Today:
Iíve Done All Right
I Havenít gossiped
I Havenít Loss My Temper
I Havenít been greedy, grumpy, nasty,
Selfish, or overindulgent.
Iím very thankful for that.
But in a few minutes, God:
Iím going to get out of bed
And from then on, Iím probably going
to need a lot more help.
Amen
And What is Life?
A crazy quilt:
sorrow and joy, and grace and guilt,
With here and there a square of blue for some
old
happiness we knew
And so the hand of time will take
the fragments of our lives and make,
Out of lifeís remnants, as they fall.
a thing of beauty, after all. Douglas
Malloch
More from IRQN news.
You know youíre a quilter
when:
ï There is more fabric in the house than
food.
ï ìFat-quarterî is not the
heaviest part of your body.
ï Your ironing board is always set up, but
you never iron clothes.
ï You think of your job as an interruption
of your quilting time.
ï You pet fabric.
ï People are always picking thread off you.
ï You can measure a scant 1/4î by
eye.
ï ìFeatherweightî doesnít
mean boxer.
ï Your ìUFOísî are not
from outer space.
ï You clean up your sewing room and they
think that you are leaving.
Murphyís Law of Sewing
Fusible interfacings always fuse to the iron.
If you need 6 buttons, youíll find 5 in
your button box.
The seam you meant to rip out is invariably the
other one.
When you are in a hurry, the needle eye is always
too small.
The fabric you forgot to pre-shrink will always
shrink the most.
The pattern you wanted to make again will have
one key piece missing.
If you drop something out of your sewing basket,
it will be your box of pins...with the cover off.
Whenever the construction process is going will,
the bobbin thread runs out.
The magnitude of the goof is in direct proportion
to the cost of the fabric.
Your lost needle will be found by your son, husband
or brother-in-law...while walking around barefoot.
Facings tend to be sewn to the wrong side. (Opposite
sides attract).
The iron never scorches the quilt block until
the final pressing.
The steam iron only burps rusty water on light
fabric.
The sewing machine light will burn out on Sunday.
Pinking shears get dull just by looking at them.
Gathering threads always break in the middle.
The scissors cut easiest past the buttonhole.
Dust if you must but
wouldn't it be better
To paint a picture or write a letter,
Bake a cake or plant a seed.
Ponder the difference between want and need.
Dust if you must but there's not much time,
With rivers to swim and mountains to climb!
Music to hear and books to read,
Friends to cherish and life to lead.
Dust if you must but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain.
This day will not come around again.
Dust if you must but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go and go you must,
You, yourself, will make more dust.
Remember, a house becomes a home when
you can write "I love you" on the furniture....
Author unknown (if you know the souce, let me know)