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Ann Ridge - Freelance quilter and embroiderer. Biography, gallery, exhibitions and workshops.
Maureen Thomas, Quilt Artist - Gallery of contemporary quilts using hand-painted fabrics with unique designs.
Celia Eddy's QuiltStory - An online quilting and patchwork magazine for the enthusiast and professional quilter.
Quilt Time Workshops - Workshops for quilts, patchwork, sewing and textile crafts.
The Quilter's Guild - Promotes the craft and history of quilting in the UK. Extensive resource covers youth groups, regions, publications and heritage.
Patchwork & Quilting Magazine - Current contents, previous issues and next month.
Quilters' Guild of the British Isles, London - Quilting events, links, artists, gallery of work and young quilters page.
Butterfly Quilters - Suppliers of cotton fabric and accessories for quilts and finishing services. Includes information on workshops.
The London Quilters - Newsletters, events, instructions for making quilts, and list of London shops.
House Of Patchwork - Quilting specialist in Hertfordshire selling fabrics, patterns, quilting accessories as well as offering classes in their shop.
The Cotton Patch - Shop in Birmingham specialising in patchwork and quilting. Background, range of products and books plus catalogue for mail order purchases.
Rio Designs - Range of software for quilters.
Tricia's Quilts Page - Personal page with quilts designed on Quilt Pro plus links to other Quilt Pro Pages.
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Quilting It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Quilting If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Quilting If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Quilting No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Quilting Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Quilting Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Quilting "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Quilting "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Quilting I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Quilting It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Quilting "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Quilting "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Quilting My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Quilting "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Quilting "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Quilting The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Quilting As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Quilting Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Quilting It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Quilting Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Quilting "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Quilting
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