"I need to spend more time sewing and less time playing with the computer" How many quilters can say the same thing, Jane? Laundry, paying bills, cooking, walking the dog, yes, all those things are necessary but the computer...well...look at it this way: we often work alone in our sewing rooms and studios and who is our best friend during those hours alone...our computer...this new device that absolutely revitted me when I first had one given to me and has been the bane of my existance, a quixotic friend who has required me to become more literate in a field into which I wish, at times, like Jane, never to have stepped. It takes time away from my work in my studio, I can leave it on and see any messages coming in from my sewing table, distracting me terribly, loosing me my train of creative thought...but would I be without it? No, not now. I've been thrown into this new technology and have had to learn to discipline myself from my curiosity, my need for instant friendshipping...Jane, go cold turkey. Set times through the day when you will allow yourself to be on the computer. I had to do this last fall, asked folks not to send me any forwards, only read personal emails and it worked. It was like a mermaid luring me into the rocks of decompression, this computer.

Marci, are you absolutely sure that you are not Canadian with all those Canada geese and maple leaves. What a unique quilt.

Rosey, in Ontario, Canada