Welcome home Karyn!!! I am sure it is cold up north compared to beautiful FL. Glad to hear you had a wonderful time and we will look forward to your new DR pictures!! Nice to know all is well. Hope all of those plants survived your absence too! Take care, Laura

Hey there Prof! You have been missed! I haven't been on here in ages, but it sure is nice to check back in and see some folks that had been MIA. Really sorry to hear about Dee... we lost our diabetic cat this summer, so hard to say goodbye to our babies... You moved south- wowza- we're practically neighbors now! I'm just a bit north of Broadkill Beach, you'll have to come up for a glass of wine or two! Take good care and have a Happy Thanksgiving! Shore

Hi. More info is always helpful! : ) The green parts that cover the bud are the sepals, and they are very useful in ID'ing a rose. Did you click on photos at the above link and look at the photos of Paul Neyron? (Some people miss that there are more photos.) Others to look at: Magna Charta - but I think the prickles are reddish on this rose Yolande d'Arragon - but the leaves on this plant are more pointed than your plant's leaves - I think Baronne Prevost - but this plant is more arching than your plant, I think... I keep coming back to the fact that your plant is grafted so it is quite likely not an old garden rose as it appears. Perhaps it is an early David Austin? I don't know when his roses first were sold in the US, but one of my favorite Austins is Cymbeline and it was introduced in 1983. John Clare looks sort of like it (maybe not enough petals?) but it is from 1994 which isn't close to your time frame. If you go to Help Me Find, you can do an advanced search and look at just Austin roses, or you can enter plant characteristics and see if you can get an ID. Have fun! (I'll keep thinking...!) Here is a link that might be useful: advanced search on HMF

I say NO! I use Warm and White on most all my quilts. I prefer it to Warm & Natural because I do not have to worry about the Natural making the white fabric darker or leaching stains. The Warm and White will shrink and you get that nice crinkle look and definition to the quilting. If you do not want that look, you may want to switch to the Warm Blend -- which I also like! I personally think it is difficult (and nuts:~) to preshrink a batting. There are other products available to purchase if you don't want the shrinkage. This is for the cute jammies quilt you recreated from a picture - am I right? Welcome home and back to quilting!