Bulletin board access requires signing up through www.yahoo.com - and the group to sign up to is:  RPLOTNOnlineQuiltGuild     (not to be confused with RPLOTN).

Click here to join!!

CHATTING!!!!

Chatting:  On-line chatting can be done at www.fabric-stash.com - sign in with your "internet" name!

Monthly meetings are held at www.fabric-stash.com and you are welcome to join the meetings and vote if you are an RPLOTN member.  Announcements, Agenda and Minutes of the meetings are accessible through the newsletter - but also thru this web site directly.  The December 2006 Newsletter has a Show and Tell feature that discusses the html codes you can use in the Fabric Stash Bulletins.  These codes help put spaces and paragraph breaks and website addresses... all kinds of things to make your posts easier to read and follow.

Fabric Stash has also had a bulletin board for leaving messages for each other!  Recently there has been a lot of spam being posted, so Ed has removed those sites.  He has also changed IP address for those getting into chat via MIRC.   See "help" page for getting into the chat site if you have problems getting in via the web page.

This is how we originally met and is still the best place to visit!  Early in the mornings and in the evenings seems to be the best times to find people from all over the world!

Another on-line chat place and bulletin board is signing up through www.yahoo.com - and the group to sign up to is:  RPLOTNOnlineQuiltGuild     (not to be confused with RPLOTN).

Click here to join!!

To visit the latest RPLOTN Newsletter...  go to www.rplotn.com/Newsletter.htm

A Little History ....

R.P.L.O.T.N. has just celebrated 10 years of internet friendships.  What started out as a curious group of new internet users chatting has turned into real gatherings, real people, real quilts and way more chatting than anyone could have imagined!!!

In the late 1990's a group of women with a common love of quilting came together on the internet.  It was a wonderful experience, meeting fellow quilters from all over the world - and even from the same neighborhood!!

A chat room created by Fabric Stash was the point of contact for many women who could only chat after the household was quiet - hence "Ladies of the Night". 

Does anyone really need the explanation for Royal Purple?    Not if you quilt or you have reached the honorable age of 50!

As we chatted, the idea of a name for the group came about.  Bylaws have been written, meetings held and officers elected. R.P.L.O.T.N. has a direction - a goal - a purpose!

Clear out that unused stash and get some quilts out the door for people who need them!!

As we chatted, we exchanged support - in written form, in quilted form - sometimes blocks, sometimes fabric, sometimes the whole quilt!  As we chatted we realized not everyone lived far apart! We determined they were close together physically and "bees" also started up!

As we chatted we arranged to really meet at various quilt shows!  The energy that was felt the first time a group of chatters met for real - still gives me Moose Bumps!!!

Moose?? A crazy Moose has been created for a mascot!  She's holding a needle and wearing… a purple bra!!  There's no point explaining that one to friends - we just smile.

A newsletter is prepared every month! Shared stories and pictures - plans and plans derailed!

Round robins have been done, exchanges continue! Quilts made for comfort - for each other - and for strangers in need.  Those who can, at the moment, are more than willing to drop a current project and involve themselves in making a treasure from the heart.

Do we dare start to count how many quilts have been made under the R.P.L.O.T.N. name??

The biggest project was a grande scale project!
          Six quilts from all across the world  came together in the space of  7 weeks. 
                       Talk about drop what you are doing!! 

             Emails, fabric, squares and quilts flew across  oceans and countries!

This site are intended solely for the sharing within the membership of the Royal Purple Ladies of the Night Online Internet Quilt Guild.  All articles and photographs are not to be copied, downloaded or otherwise taken from these pages without emailed/written confirmed request.  We trust our wishes will be respected.  This site will be updated on an irregular basis - as needed when needed.  Links to previous postings may or may not be included.  Corrections will be made as soon as possible.  Today may not be possible.  Your input to this site is the only way it works! RPLOTN Site updated on a constant basis.

webmaster@rplotn.com      Webmaster