GABIT attendees thread

[SEREN LWCH (MAL)]

221 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!!

[sofie]

okay I was finally able to buy my fabric, since I've been sick most of september , I hope it isn't to late yet..
I was just wondering how many cm it has to be, cause I was a bit confused lol so I probably bought waaaaay to much

[suse]

i've done it both ways and not really

doing it before, you're gonna be rested adn acclimated for the con. you'll have more time to get over jetlag

do it after and you might catch up wtih come con friends and run around with them

maybe a compromise? fly out on tuesday, that gives you wed to recover, thu to play, fri, sat, sun at the con, then mon, tue and maybe wed to tour, fly back on thu and take friday off or something like that

in other words, do a bit before and a bit after if you want to.

of course, if you're gonna move to a cheaper hotel, that might not work.

I think, based on last yaer, sue and i are gonna fly in on wed, recover thu, con fri, sat, sun, then maybe visit a friend of hers for part of the next week and fly back thu or fri or so

won't quite be two weeks, but will be longer than a weekend

That loses the weekend which gives more time without 'taking' the time off. Which can be/is an issue. But thanks.

suse

[becky_preen]

okay I was finally able to buy my fabric, since I've been sick most of september , I hope it isn't to late yet..
I was just wondering how many cm it has to be, cause I was a bit confused lol so I probably bought waaaaay to much

About 50 x 60cm is a fat quarter, but you can send as much as you got. I am sure I will be able to use it... A couple of people have sent more which I plan on using for boarders and possibley binding as well as in the blocks!

Hugs
becks

[sofie]

About 50 x 60cm is a fat quarter, but you can send as much as you got. I am sure I will be able to use it... A couple of people have sent more which I plan on using for boarders and possibley binding as well as in the blocks!

Hugs
becks

Thank you
I'll be sending it tomorrow, wednesday latest!

[minigeek]

About 50 x 60cm is a fat quarter, but you can send as much as you got. I am sure I will be able to use it... A couple of people have sent more which I plan on using for boarders and possibley binding as well as in the blocks!

Hugs
becks

I am so in awe of people who can make things like this. Just looking at a custom made quilt boggles my brain!! You guys are so talented!

[suse]

I am so in awe of people who can make things like this. Just looking at a custom made quilt boggles my brain!! You guys are so talented!

Whatever mini You have your own highly skilled talents.

Nice to see you!

suse

[becky_preen]

I am so in awe of people who can make things like this. Just looking at a custom made quilt boggles my brain!! You guys are so talented!

Whatever mini You have your own highly skilled talents.

Nice to see you!

suse

I may be able to sew things together but you don't want to ask me to draw stuff... Well I can do the geometric dsign aspects but for the person to even look remotely like the person I'm drawing??? forget it. Did a nice picture of an onion once, but even if I didn't get the actual onion right, it still looks like an onion

Becks
Who made two quilt tops this week... the first one turned out the size I expected, but it was "in the flesh" a bit big for the purpose, so I made a mini one..... which was a bit small... Somewhere in between is a happy medium!!!

[Mandysg1]

so I made a mini one..... which was a bit small... Somewhere in between is a happy medium!!!

you made a quilt that looked like mini, wow you are talented

[Skydiver]

I may be able to sew things together but you don't want to ask me to draw stuff... Well I can do the geometric dsign aspects but for the person to even look remotely like the person I'm drawing??? forget it. Did a nice picture of an onion once, but even if I didn't get the actual onion right, it still looks like an onion

Becks
Who made two quilt tops this week... the first one turned out the size I expected, but it was "in the flesh" a bit big for the purpose, so I made a mini one..... which was a bit small... Somewhere in between is a happy medium!!!

yeah, about all i can manage is sam's stick figures. I wish i could draw, but i just can't.

well flies. i can draw flies. and mosquitos.

[Mandysg1]

yeah, about all i can manage is sam's stick figures. I wish i could draw, but i just can't.

well flies. i can draw flies. and mosquitos.

Then I'd have to draw a fly swatter for Sky's drawings

[SWMBOTGSG]

I may be able to sew things together but you don't want to ask me to draw stuff... Well I can do the geometric dsign aspects but for the person to even look remotely like the person I'm drawing??? forget it. Did a nice picture of an onion once, but even if I didn't get the actual onion right, it still looks like an onion

Becks

Having said that, I have on my walls two Acrylic paintings, one of an american colonial mansion, and the other a fine seascape with the Royal Navy Cadet brig, 'TS Royalist' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:W...alist_v_pd.jpg in full sail going round the Needles rocks off Cornwall.

Kay aka (proud) Mumsey.

[SEREN LWCH (MAL)]

220 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!!

[Feli]

I have a question for those of you who know:

I was reading one of a multitude of tourist guides to London, and the writer said that Americans stand out like a sore thumb with their jeans and sneakers/trainers. Is this true, and if it is, what else do you wear with jeans? Or is the point not to wear jeans? Just curious.

Whenever I'm in a bookstore in the US I like leafing through tourist guides. I've found that quite often the authors don't necessarily stick to facts but instead enjoy much more playing with cliches and prejudices. I've never checked it out in other countries but I imagine it's the same everywhere. "Scaring" readers with exaggerated tales of strange customs in foreign countries is just so much more fun than giving them facts...

If you want to be on the safe side stick to those parts of the guide that actually describe the sights of London. For anything else you've got us anyway

[becky_preen]

Having said that, I have on my walls two Acrylic paintings, one of an american colonial mansion, and the other a fine seascape with the Royal Navy Cadet brig, 'TS Royalist' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:W...alist_v_pd.jpg in full sail going round the Needles rocks off Cornwall.

Kay aka (proud) Mumsey.

inanimate objects both... cornwall? mumsey dear, there's no rocks in that painting... are there???

becks the forgetful