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I'm flying Thursday and wanted to know about a carry-on bag with my hand quilting supplies (sharp tools like seam ripper, scissors, pins). I love my scissors and do not want to lose them but do not plan to check any luggage.

Please tell me about recent flights with this situation.

Evelyn

http://www.oprah.com/own-enough-already-peter-walsh/The-Armed-Services-Thanks-Quilts-of-Valor_1 

 

Good morning friends!

Hope you all enjoy this clip from an Oprah network show called Enough Already. I am not in this woman's position regarding fabric stash but could relate so closely that I feel most of us has felt what she feels about hanging on to 'good fabric'…

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I just saw NBC morning news report about excessive airline carry on bag fees and felt like I had been punched in the gut!



A man said he was 'not going to be taken' by the airlines charging him an extra $60 when his ticket was only $140. So he emptied his carry on bag and threw away books and toiletries. No big deal right?



He then threw away a pastel tied quilt.



Watching him shove it down the garbage can hole took the air out me and my son. Even my son knows to…

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Got so bored making hexagons with the same fabric for my Grandmother's Flower Garden. I decided to pull from the stash I aquired a few months ago. I love calico fabric. As long as the scraps were large enough to cut six squares from it, it was a good thing! Feels so fresh. The monotony is what kills my projects mid-way everytime. Back to paper piecing 'new' hexagons!

I went to my first estate sale Friday by suggestion of an antique collecting BIL. Not sure of what to expect or how to make deals, I think I did very well. I came across two 22 gallon storage containers overstuffed with fabric! The story from the young (and oblivious) man and woman was that their mother had kept her mothers' projects and fabrics stored for decades. Their grandmother passed in '69, so all of these items were from the 1930-60s. ( I found her newpaper templates that are dated and… Continue