Ami's AfterChat NewsletterFebruary 1997Please Note: This newsletter was originally sent on February 21, 1997. It may not have improved with age. Information may be outdated and irrelevant, not to mention useless. It is here only for your enjoyment. GREAT NEWS TinyStich has volunteered her husband's laptop (hopefully with his consent) so that I can do our chat from the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Williamsburg on Thursday February 27. Hopefully AOL will let us on, and we'll see you there! Please join us if you can from 9-10 pm EST in the Quilter's Chat room. The first 45 minutes are with protocol and the last bit is "free-for-all." Don't worry about the protocol. Just type "?" when you'd like to ask a quilty question and wait before you send it until I call on you. Hope to see you at there, either in real life or "virtually."
CONGRATULATIONS
THE ULTIMATE PILLOWCASE CHALLENGE What a huge success! I am overwhelmed at your generosity. I delivered the pillows (with cases) to the YWCA along with your cash contributions ($147) and met with the director of Safe House. She was overjoyed. The Flint Journal was there for the "hand-off" and they might even run a picture in the paper. A total of 64 pillows were delivered to the facility and as we talked no less than five people walked over and asked if the pillows were for sale! (See how good you all done!) The better news is that all the pillows I had on hand are now out of my basement. The best news is that I have to go out and purchase 102 more pillows to fill the pillowcases! I am delighted to do so; this is such a good cause. Not only does Safe House offer shelter to battered women and their children, but if offers counseling for the victims as well as the assailants. This last part is often mandated by the courts and helps break the chain of violence.
AND THE WINNERS ARE.....
A special thank-you to SandraDea who whipped out 32 pillowcases - all with kid and seasonal novelty prints. Great idea!
PHOTO-TRANSFER QUILTS ON TV
THE WORST QUILT IN THE WORLD CONTEST Happily, over 21,000 people have seen the Grand Prize Winning Quilt from last year's contest and lived to tell about it. Sadly, hardly any of those people are entering this year's contest! Let me at this time invite you to ENTER. Over $8,000 in prizes. Odds are pretty good, if you catch my drift...... The best way is to check out the web site at: http://quilt.com/worstquilt. The next best way is to send a long SASE to: Worst Quilt Contest/4206 Sheraton Dr./Flint, MI 48532.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER REVEALING (uhm, REVEALED?) Here's the scoop. As you know (if you had an entry form and were about to enter, hint, hint) it says that the Grand Prize Winner will be photographed with a paper sack over her head to protect her anonymity. If the winner lives farther than 50 miles from Flint, MI (which is incidentally where I live) then an employee of Mallery Press will stand in. So far, we're two for two. Both the 1995 and the 1996 winner lived farther away than 50 miles so we rounded up the employees and stuck paper bags over their heads to see who looked most like the winner. Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but there are only two employees here at Mallery Press. One is me and the other is the lovely Teresa. One is "bagged" and the other works the camera. It's a team effort, out there on the driveway in front of passing cars, letter carriers, and the occasional gardener. This last year we tried the usual variety of grocery sacks. Finding them sans advertising is no easy trick, BTW. We each took turns in the bag. Then we got silly. (Sillier?) Teresa got her hands on one of those huge leaf bags which came down practically to her knees. (Teresa is vertically challenged.) She was wearing shorts and it looked like she had on absolutely nothing except the bag. We laughed a lot. Actually, I laughed more than she did as the cars going by the house slowed to a mere crawl, and people started hanging out the windows. She couldn't see herself, which was probably the only reason she agreed to stay in the bag. Besides, once she was in there she needed my help to get out. Those things are sturdy -- and I was laughing way too hard to help her. Then it was my turn. Going for the same look, I ran into the garage and whipped of my jeans and then got into the bag. One thing led to another and out came the black stockings and high heels, which we thought would add some class to the pictures. We shot off a whole roll of film, never intending to actually use them. We were, after all trying to pretend to be Kathy, the poor winner, who deserved some respect. I sent Kathy the pictures. Guess what's on her web page? After you stop laughing, click on the INTERVIEW.
AN URGENT PLEA FOR HELP
QUILT STAMP
Why not hit up the post office directly? Here's their email address:
Please forward this message to: Please consider creating a commemorative quilting stamp celebrating one of America's original artforms---the American quilt.
Thank you, Don't forget to use your real name (not just your screen name) and your address. Let's pass the word. I'd like to see them get a kazillion emails. Let's let them know we're out there!
SHOE LACE DILEMMA SOLVED
WEBSITE OF THE MONTH
THANKS TO THE QUILTERS IN NEWARK, OHIO
AS ALWAYS Please let me know if you change service providers or change your screen name. I maintain this list (of over 500!) manually. I sit here like an idiot every time I send it out waiting for all your names to click by. I have to stop everything when a bad name comes through and fix it before I can continue....... so let me know if you change your name or privider.
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