k3n

Hey I'm liking the sound of this 'home' more and more from amma's description :D - OK we'll reduce visiting hours to days with a 'z' in them. :mrgreen: , we'll have a rota system to share with the snorers or we could just stuff charm squares in our ears. :lol:

Mousie, we won't stretch your slippers, like the ugly sisters and Cinders - I'm laughing out loud here at the image of us all shuffling around in odd slippers and someone's great big foot with Mousie's little dainty hangin' off their big toe!

And in this Paradise on Earth, Thursday is delivery day - a huge pantechnicon pulls up at the gate, having made a tour of all the LQS within a 100 mile radius, we all climb aboard and select our stash additions for the week - 'hey amma I saw that batik first', 'no, I did!' OK we'll split the bolt between us! :D

Bevanger

geesh, i'm glad i'm not the only one who does that :lol:

fireworkslover

This is all so funny. I guess we are all the same. Talking to a machine or the thread or the needle! I do all these things as well, even at work we do it. I work for an alterations shop, mainly altering bridal, but I do other clothes too. Funny!

Esqmommy

I want a reservation there too! And, I think you're on to something...setting up a retirement home for 'quiliter/sewers/crafters" and there would be a large room for everyone to leave their machines and stuff...it would get them out of their rooms and into the community setting. There could be a younger person there to help with heavy things,or cutting for shaky hands, etc....I wonder if it can be pulled off??? With our aging population, having specialty places seems like a good idea...hmmmm...

Mousie

Esqumommy, you could pull strings, lol...to get our home, so nobody but us quilters could stay there. or at least we get our own wing!
As I do have very good hearing...you have to when your a mouse...so many bigger than you want to eat you, or worse...want to play :shock:
anyway, I will have to share a room with someone that does NOT snore, thank you very much.
I think k3n would be a good match for me, bc she may not be as "quirky", but she does organize a bit, too.
I don't want to be with someone real messy, bc I would never get out of the room...and the others would tease us, about being the 'odd couple' :mrgreen:

k3n

I'll room with you Mousie! Then we can be OC.., ermmm, mega-organised together! :D

Mousie

YAY! I am only ocd to the quirky point...and with my own stuff. Other ppl's stuff doesn't bother me, as long - as it doesn't bother me, lol :lol:
woo hoo...something to look forward to in the older days! :mrgreen:

craftiladi

Amma....I was laughing so hard as I do the same things....lol thanks for sharing.
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DA Mayer

I really want to be at your ofh or old folks home or whatever you are going to call it. You can organize my space, just like the one housekeeper at work used to do. She would organize and then I could never find what I wanted. sometimes I think I need the chaos to think I have accomplished something when it is clean.
Another idiosyncrasy I have is I find it difficult to sew something upside down, or going in the wrong direction. Like quilting from the bottom to top.

chris_quilts

When Dh and I were in the Army, we did number our uniforms so that they faded unifrmly, NOT! We were not the only the ones with this system. I ham loving this thread and laughing so hard. When my bobbins are low, I pray to the sewing god to make it last but would not want audio when I run out. I have also been known to use a siimilar color (very close in shade) to finish it off.
Perhaps my biggest idiosyncrasy is that I sew everything in white on my inner seams where it doesn't show, except black fabric, which is not always smart but it what I do. Drives my girls crazy b/c I do some of the mending in whaite b/c it's in my machine already even though it rarely matches what's being mended. :)