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You go to the feed store & see the Purina logo on the wall & realize it's a red & white Nine Patch...hehehehe

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hahaha! Yep, I see quilt patterns in so many things/places!!!

When you're in a business bathroom and your designing quilt squares out of the tiles

Or walkking around old churches in Europe and look at the flooring.
Or when you are taking pictures of garden gates in Italy.
I did both and haven't made not even one quilt for all the gates and floors I took pictures of.

Or you are watching a movie and are trying to get a better view of the quilt on the bed instead of listening to the dialogue e.g. when Tom Hanks visits a sick Meg Ryan in You've got Mail.

You're at the first retreat for this board and you look at the carpet in the MOTEL and say "wasn't that nice of them to change it out for us to a quilting design??" wouldn't that make a cool quilt?

It's 2am...you can't sleep...you're thinking:

(A) Where is a piece of paper & pencil -- I have to sketch this before I forget!

(B) So my next step is to get that top section sewn together. Will I get done before the deadline?

or

(C) I really don't have enough aqua! Where can I go shopping? Who's got a sale?

I've been eyeing the pattern on my bathroom floor ever since we moved in here!! I've actually gotten so far as to buy some fabric for it, including a diagonal stripe! Now, when it'll get any further, who knows?

How about when you reach up to give your grandson a really big hug and he ends up with straight pins giving him a piercing. I offered to get one of my gold earrings for his n!pple. Poor baby was actually bleeding. When your grandson is 18 years old you know time is short on getting those hugs. It was a long three years between hugs with his older brother and I don't know how much longer this assignment will be.

...when you see a neighbor walking her Scottie dog and immediately think of EvelynB's Wee Scottie block.

You wonder if you can use the pictures from a friend's cross stitch pattern to make a quilt.

Your supervisor is trying to tell you something & all you are looking at is his shirt & wondering if it is 100% cotton.

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You are shopping for clothes. You come across a nice long cotton skirt. You wonder how many fat quarters you could get if you cut it up...or how much fabric...how many blocks.

You buy some fabric, thread or a quilt magazine & go home...without buying any clothes.

Hahaha, all these are so close to the mark!

You know you are a quilter when you are laying in bed with your husband nuzzling your neck and you are wondering if it would be rude to say, "Wait a minute while I write down this great idea I just had for a quilt."

Yes, I wrote that!!!

jkstrouble

What a BEAUTIFUL black cat you own. Is it a breed? Just gorgeous!

She is a mix, the only part we are sure of is that she has a bit of Maine Coon. Thankfully, she is only 9lbs. Maine Coons typically are around 20lbs or more (and not fat). She is actually gray with a white patch on her chest.

.. or riding in the hospital elevator late at night and tell theman in there alone wiht you that you reallylike the fabric in his shirt and then laugh allthe rest of the night at how funnyhe looked hugging the wall and bank of buttons silent;y praying for first floor to get there...
sorry about typos - Ic annot get things foxed on here rightnow .. hahaha foxed .. fixed.. it's after 2, I must be tired.

You ask a co-worker to make a color copy of her shirt sleeve, and she just laughs and calls you silly. But I really wanted it -- Beautiful Indian embroidery, gorgeous pink background, turquoise, greens, I think a gold mixed in -- pattern sort of Seminole patchwork style.

Just the cuff, is that too much to ask?

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tell theman in there alone wiht you that you reallylike the fabric in his shirt and then laugh allthe rest of the night at how funnyhe looked hugging the wall and bank of buttons silent;y praying for first floor to get there...

I did that at church and at the store...hopefully they didn't think it was a come-on. One quilter at church said, I"M going to use his shirt!!!" Well, alrightie then, even...

Kaylin: You could take a picture of her in her shirt and zero in on the shirt...hahahaha!

Nancy - remember "and the dish ran away with the spoon"? Sometimes I think I have 'and the mouth ran away with the brain"!

LOL!!!

I've told some of my DH's friends-"I'm gonna need that shirt when you're done with it". They all know I'm a quilter so they just laugh. Of course THEY all want me to make them a quilt!!

Pam

I had a hard time containing myself last year at a car rental office - the guy helping me was HUGE and had on the nicest shirt, looked quality cotton to me, and I want SO badly to ask if he had any old shirts I could look at, the more i thought abuot it the more 'per ver ted" i thought it might sound .... sometims I really regret having moments of common sense.

I have a really REALLY hard time not touching a cotton shirt whether it's got a person in it or not!!! Even when I was little (8) in a kid's group picture...the little boy next to me had a flannel shirt...which I touched!!!! Oh where is the embarassed icon!!!!

I had not been in the hospital for years and years. Several years ago, I was very sick and on massive pain killers. I kept telling the nurses that I liked their fabric. It was later when I was more consious that I realized that they no longer wore white, but really brilliant and decorative scrubs.

I am sure they thought I was over medicated, but I would have taken that fabric they were carrying around home in a minute.

Going under for surgery once a couple of years ago I thought every one in the operating room looked so nice...such a pretty shade of blue...my anesthesiologist who looked like Brad Pitt came up close to check how I was doing...I blurted out..."Your eyes! They match your outfit!"

sheesh, you can't take me anywhere...

When you go out to dinner and the supervisor for the fabric department AT WALMART says

"Gosh havent see you in a few day"

I need a job on the weekends to pick up a little extra cash...

Do you think I should apply at Walmart

I do buy a fair amount of fabric at Wally's
The have some quality stuff especially the batiks.

When your husband comes home and tells you the women in his office were trying to pick the threads off the back of his pants! Seems it's a daily occurence LOL!