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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
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The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	26 Aug 2018 15:46
	Oh dear, got the urges again and that faraway look in my eyes. When I was finishing that patchwork bedspread I was buying charm packs which are packs of 5" squares of cotton from which to cut the patches at ten to twelve pounds each. Now I have been looking at the Range site and they have them for six pounds. That last quilt took me forty-two years. I really do need to be strong and overcome the need to start another, even if I do already have a lot of fabric to use up!
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 63,083 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	26 Aug 2018 15:58
	Why not make patchwork cushion covers?
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	26 Aug 2018 16:13
	Why not indeed? Because I would not stop at cushion cover size, I would be steaming on regardless. I am totally unable to tell the difference between scratching my bum and tearing a lump out of it!
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	26 Aug 2018 16:51
	Treat youself to a day out then https://americanmuseum.org/about-the-museum/collections/quilts-textiles/
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	26 Aug 2018 17:05
	We don't post on each others threads. Remember? It was your suggestion and it suits me very well.
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	26 Aug 2018 17:13
	I just thjought that this was right up your street that's all. They have an excellent tea shop n cakes too - my mum loved going there (museum and tea shop) though my old man preferred the George at nearby Norton St Philip. The inn is one of the few galleried inns remaining in England. To be or not to be .....
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	26 Aug 2018 17:16
	Start your own thread about it then.
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,108 Send Message	Caroline	Report	26 Aug 2018 17:50
	Be superhuman....make another one and live to be a ripe old age :-)
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	26 Aug 2018 19:01
	The trick is to not lave it on top of the wardrobe for thirty years.
Member Since: December 2005 Posts: 14,699 Send Message	Kay????	Report	26 Aug 2018 19:43
	Make some quilted padded placemats and sell them or a raffleprize at the Lunch,or patch bags for,knitting needles,pegs.small enough not to get bored doing it.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	26 Aug 2018 20:01
	You are not supposed to be making suggestions, you are supposed to be saving me from myself. I need to be told that I don't need more fabric, not encouraged to do things to give myself an excuse to buy some more.
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,108 Send Message	Caroline	Report	26 Aug 2018 21:57
	Use what you've got to make yourself an outfit...make sure it looks weird and then you'll never make another one again!!
Member Since: January 2009 Posts: 1,381 Send Message	Denburybob	Report	26 Aug 2018 22:05
	You could make me a waistcoat. I love a good "weskit" and have a really expensive one made to measure in the Piccadilly arcade (Sir is a little portly for one off the peg, were his words) made from ecclesiastic cloth. Cost me a weeks wages.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	26 Aug 2018 22:11
	Which you wore once? My grandad used to go off up the pub on a Sunday night sometimes in his suit of weskits. Are you asking me to make you a patchwork one?
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,108 Send Message	Caroline	Report	26 Aug 2018 23:17
	Oh Bob that would be nice wouldn't it...
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,649 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	26 Aug 2018 23:27
	:-D :-D :-D
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: January 2009 Posts: 1,381 Send Message	Denburybob	Report	27 Aug 2018 17:29
	For a short time only, I have changed my profile picture to show said weskit.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	27 Aug 2018 17:47
	Bit John Virgo .
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,108 Send Message	Caroline	Report	27 Aug 2018 18:17
	Wow Bob...what can we say :-D

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