april6263 wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

gunnerk wrote:

Yep!!!!!! mind made up................NO to speedos for me, anyway...

 
Ummmm........?????

LOL...are you standing there in a daze????LOL...need us to have Val splash you with the ice water to snap you out of it????.....oh i forgot he's still in his speedo if he comes closer to you that might make it worse!!!!LOL....maybe this time we need to send Tony to splash you!!!!LOL

 
Yes, please!!  LOL

OOOOOO.....that must have been the ice bucket challenge!  Now I'm challenging.....April!!!   

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

gunnerk wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

 
Well, maybe we have met each other in some quilt shop in the past!! LOL I love Orange Quilt Bee and Calico House (Placentia)! I know CH is for sale now. What a bum. I think they have gotten too big even though they are one of the best in the area. Every been to any in SD? I go down there a couple times a month to see grandkids and there are some nice ones down there. Ever been to Rosie's down there? The mother of all quilt shops!! HAHA The other one I was sad about losing was the Quilt Coop in Temecula. It was dynamite as well....but gone. I didn't know that Calico Horse's owner died and that it was recycled.

I finished a queen sized (but with pillow tuck and overhangs) quilt with a bunch of appliqued borders called Calico Garden in 1930s reproductions about a year ago. Still need to make the pillow shams for it but am using it on the bed. I quilt all my stuff--don't send it out. Mostly do it by machine but I love doing hand work so actually hand quilted another queen sized one that took me like 12 years from start to finish!! HAHA Spent more time waiting for the weather to cool off enough so I could stand to work on it--and it was waaaaay too ambitious for my level of experience at the time--but at least I got it done!!

So excited that we have quilting in common as well!!

It is exciting....think we have passed each other in some shops.  Yes, I have been to several in San Diego are (bro leaves there) but not Rosy's.  Need to put that on my list.  There is one really great one in San Marcos.....tons and tons and tons of awesome fabric including wool!  I don't do my machine quilting, pay someone else to do it.  It just looks so difficult to even get it basted right.  I have done a couple of small wall hangings doing hand quilting.  I struggle with a thimble so it is tough.  Did you used to go to Leah's?
 

 
Are you referring to the shop in the gray farmhouse--Fat Quarters Quilt Shop--actually in Vista? It is FABULOUS--one of my favs anywhere. Not far north off the 78? Lots of wool, upstairs, downstairs, little rooms and the attic? Of course I used to go to Leah's when there were several; there was one in Cerritos Mall. The last one to bite it wasn't far from Orange Quilt Bee before it opened. I think one of the Leah's owners may be a partner in OQB? Not sure, tho. Have you been to Flying Geese in Tustin? There is another big one on the 15 north of Escondido called.....let me think....hmmmm...can't recall right now. Nice shop. Will have to look through my quilt run stuff from June for the name. Been there twice.

Do you know M&L Fabrics in Anaheim (I think it is Anaheim right there)--Knott Ave. and Cerritos Ave.? Probably the MOST fabric in one spot on the planet!!! HAHA You have to be careful to check for quality, tho, cuz it's not quilt shop grade but some of it is not that bad (better than Joann, for sure)--and really check the flat folds. It's not far from me--maybe 5 miles. Prices are very good on some stuff and less than quilt shop on everything--20% off on notions.

Yes,Fat Quarters in Vista (my son lives in Vista).....I could spend all day in that place!!!  Not been to Flying Geese ----it's good you say?Yes, one of the owners of Orange Quilt Bee was affiliated with Leah's somehow.  Last year I went to M&L Fabrics.............that is the most I have seen in one place.  I agree, though, you have to watch the quality.
Do you go to Road to California?

gunnerk wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

Did we drive everybody else off??

Oh no.........I hope not!!!

I just checked....it is just the 2 of us.....April left and didn't say goodbye, hope she is okay.  Gabriele was here but never posted.

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

OOOOOO.....that must have been the ice bucket challenge! Now I'm challenging.....April!!!

LOL...ok i'll accept ...but i think Maks already challenged us all!!!LOL