"All Quilter Swap" Hints **NEW TITLE** (used to be Secret Pal Hints)

[chriskay]

First Name: Chris

Favorite Colors: purple golds and blues

Favorite Style of Fabrics (batiks, homespuns, reproductions, etc): civil war era fabrics and 1930's reproduction and Thimbleberries

Hand or Machine Quilt: both

Brand of Machine: Baby Lock Crafter's Choice

Favorite Candy: Milk duds

ALLERGY ALERTS: none

Hobbies: quilting, crocheting and cross stitching, reading books by Jennifer Chiaverini and other quilt related novel or books

Pets: none

Size: XL-XXL


Chris

[DouceFleur1]

Hello Chris, To join the Secret Pal exchange, all you have to do is send a PM' to CindyB with your forum's name, real name and address! And voilà!

Have fun!

Denise

[maryq]

Just sticking a little note of "advertising" in here

Check out the Secret Santa Swap!

marymargaret

[julyquilter56]

First Name: Susan

Favorite Colors: Blue, green, teal, purple, pink and of course RED. I would like to try a two color quilt, black/white, red/white, etc

Favorite Style of Fabrics (batiks, homespuns, reproductions, etc): Florals, new to batiks, fall color prints, plaids, homespun type

Hand or Machine Quilt: Hand and Machine, need more practice with machine quilting

Brand of Machine:Just got a Bernina Aurora 430 last Christmas and still trying to fiqure it out.

Favorite Candy:Almond Joy, Zeros, M&M's, Maple nut candy, and candy corn in the fall

ALLERGY ALERTS: None!

Hobbies:Sewing for grandchildren, scrapbooking, cooking and baking

Pets:Just my husband....maybe a cat some day. Our old cat passed away a couple of years ago and still haven't been able to get a new cat.

Kids: 2 grown boys, 29 and 27, both married, my oldest son Ben in the Army and married to Liz, has two boys 3 and 1; my youngest Matt married to Allie with 1 little girl age 1 on Sept 6th.

[ljautumn]

First Name: Larie (sounds like Marie only with an L)

Favorite Colors: Earth tones..burgandy, navy, forest green,cream

Favorite Style of Fabrics (batiks, homespuns, reproductions, etc):Any

Hand or Machine Quilt: Hand quilt, just can't get the hang of machine

Brand of Machine:Brother

Favorite Candy:Butterfinger bars

ALLERGY ALERTS:none

Hobbies:Quilting, reading, cross stich, being with my hubby

Pets: 3 dogs, Collie, Gordon Setter, Pug yeh I know the Pug is my sons, and 1 old cat

[grammiequilts]

First Name:Judi

Favorite Colors:Blue and red(kitchen is red..bedroom is blue)

Favorite Style of Fabrics (batiks, homespuns, reproductions, etc):Getting into batiks and thimbleberries,

Hand or Machine Quilt:Have a LA so machine,Have a Tin Lizzie 18, but I hand quilt also.

Brand of Machine:Husqvarna Designer II

Favorite Candy:Twizzlers strawberry

ALLERGY ALERTS:none

Hobbies:Quilting (of course), gardening, camping,(in a 5th wheel)buying fabric

Pets- one kitty named Baby,

have 4 married children,9 grandchildren, one DH who thinks he's a kid

[ljautumn]

First Name: Larie

Favorite Colors:Burgandy, Hunter Green

Favorite Style of Fabrics (batiks, homespuns, reproductions, etc):homespuns, country type patterens

Hand or Machine Quilt: Hand quilter, wishing I could machine quilt

Brand of Machine:Brother

Favorite Candy:Snickers - the little bit size ones

ALLERGY ALERTS:None

Hobbies:quilting, cross stitch, reading, and dreaming of not having to work outside the home LOL

Pets:2 dogs - Gordon Setter, Collie, and 1 very old cat.

I like to try new and different things. Quilting is my favorite past time it just seems I don't have enough time to do all that I want.

[maggiestew]

First Name: Margaret

Favorite Colors: I grown to like them all

Favorite Style of Fabrics (batiks, homespuns, reproductions, etc): Pretty much all except I'm wild about novelty.

Hand or Machine Quilt: Machine and I like to tie w/high loft batting

Brand of Machine: Basic Brother

Favorite Candy: Bit o' Honey

ALLERGY ALERTS: None

Hobbies: Quilting, reading (mystery, Dean Koontz, Stephen King) flower gardening.

Pets: Patches-rescue dog, little wire terrier; He's actually the GK's dog but I think he likes me better:)

[QuiltsIdo]

First Name: Jean

Favorite Colors: I love them all! I need browns and blacks

Favorite Style of Fabrics (batiks, homespuns, reproductions, etc): I love Country Fabrics like Thimbleberries, Batiks, Moda anything! I do not like 30's or reproductions.

Hand or Machine Quilt: Mostly machine

Brand of Machine: 2 Pfaff 2 Janome and 1 HQ16

Favorite Candy: Hershey's chocolate and root beer barrels (hard candy)

ALLERGY ALERTS: perfumes, smoke etc.

Hobbies: Quilting, Bingo, Basketmaking, I am a collector of old sewing items. I am now Collecting Thread for my HQ 16.

Pets: 2 dogs and 2 Siamese cats

Family: 2 Children and 2 grandchildren

[Joannequilts]

First Name: Joanne

Favorite Colors: Green, yellow, red, purple, all clear colors, not muddy or muted, don't like orange (except the orange sherbert color), gold, or olive greens. I do like the new sage green, though. I'm doing alot of totes now, so I'm starting to collect the new fabrics in brown/pink, torquoise/brown, like the new plaids,too.

Favorite Style of Fabrics : blenders, high contrast prints, marbled, and "Fairy Frost", like the 1800's reproductions if they are high contrast or rich,deep colors, like 30's repros but have tons of them. I need blue fabrics since I hardly ever buy them for some reason.

Hand or Machine Quilt: I do both

Brand of Machine: Kenmore (for quilter's)

Favorite Candy: Three Musketeer's bite size (umm!),bull's eyes (carmel w/white centers), peanut M & M's, not a big candy person (I love cookies!)

ALLERGY ALERTS: None

Hobbies: Reading "cozy" mysteries, and "themed" mysteries (like novels with the characters that are quilters, caterers, book shop owners, etc.) Gardening and herbs. I also love scented candles (NOT vanilla) pine, spruce, lavender,blueberry,mulberry,and clean scents. I love to bake, too. I also love old, family recipes.
I'd love to have quilt related note cards or B-Day cards. Or Hummingbird "Bubbles" lotion & soap that she makes!!


Pets None

Family: Children: 3 grown & married, 5 step grown and married, 14 grands total! Whew! Love them all!