Thanks again everyone!! You're all so sweet. Calamity - One thing about pebbles... you have to place them on their edge to make them stay in place. If you lay them flat they will and do pop off. I haven't seen your castle project but will go find it now! :) If I do have a stone that pops out for some reason, I usually just glue it back in with a construction adhesive.

I'm no fan of Clay Lightloafers, especially since his tyrades then trying to cash in on "coming out" but in fairness something's wrong here. Methinks you're upset unjustly. If they were hired, there must be something in writing about the terms. NOBODY contacted his staff about it? Why not? You can't in fairness blame him when he clearly delegates this stuff out, can you? IF your allegations are true, it's a staff issue, not Aiken. Yes, it comes under his company but not him personally. He likely didn't fall down on this. Sounds to me like the school is equally negligent in not following through. Did Aiken's people agree to provide food? Did the school require it as part of the agreement? I'd be surprised if they did. Did everyone just "assume" they'd provide food & beverage for them, thinking this was a social event? When I'm hired on an all day job I'm often not allowed to leave the site and seldom do they provide food and beverage for me. It's my responsibility to bring it or go without. The school, if not the kids' parents should all clearly know this. This is not an uncommon thing. (I'm skeptical the conditions were truly so abominable that they were getting sick short of special needs, and if so, shouldn't the kids and their parents know about that?) Again, not a "claymate" in any way, shape or form, but I'm a reasonable person. People have a responsibility if they don't get what they're supposed to get they have obligations to inquire. You need to give a chance for it to be remedied before condemning and it's wrong to condemn the wrong people. This all presupposes that they did fall down on follow-up. If they did and he breeched his contract, that's a different story, but still there's remedies. Assuming all of this is true and he schemed to take advantage of and defraud high school kids, someone should contact all the other towns since assumably he'd do the same thing to them. There could easily be a large lawsuit here. Definitely bad publicity. But somehow, I just don't think this is the case. Let's be fair, people.

The more I think about it, the more I think it is a shading issue caused by turning one piece 180 degrees. When viewed from the left, the one piece looks greyer; when viewed from the right, the other eight pieces look greyer. It was certainly a lesson learned. And I hadn't thought about Kona cottons having similar issues. I've got two quilts in the works using white Kona cotton as the field in which the blocks rest. I will be sure to keep track of front/back, top/bottom. I have sewn enough throughout the years to have been wiser than I was. Oh, well.

Oh don't worry, I'm just seething at their bad business practices. If they only had the one bulb remaining, and didn't want to mail just one bulb they could have given me the opportunity to choose another! And as for some of the H004s being Kahluas, I would have been happy with that too!! What happened to first come first serve?? Don't mind me, I"m just venting, I will write to them after I cool down a bit....Donna :-(