Was looking at the other newsgroups today for a cat group to join. Have a couple of questions regarding Abby and wasn't sure which would be the best one to join. Seen a lot of miscellaneous garbage in all of them. Anybody there and care to give advice on the best one??? -- Cindy from MO

We had our Christmas party at Guild last night. Lots of great food, games (I still suck at Bingo, no matter if it's called Quilt-o or not). Every body brought a $5 wrapped gift and we stood in a big circle around the room and the Program chair read a story. Every time she said the word "right"...

OK, does everyone but me know that basting the edges of the sandwich (cotton top, Insulbrite, cotton batting, teflon silver stuff) together makes it 10 times easier to put the binding on? Why didn't someone tell me? Whew!!! The first one took forever, the subsequent ones are going much...

Rotary cutting is easy, but best results come from careful use of the tools. Not sure how to cut different shapes? Here is a concise course for beginners, as well as a refresher course for seasoned quilters. http://quilting.about.com/od/rotarycuttingskills/ss/cutting_shapes.htm?nl=1

Carolyn McCarty, Please email me. Thanks Butterfly Butterfly-Wings at cox dot net ((And just how many of you read this anyway vbeg ))

I've finished all the blocks, and completed my layout; thereby preempting the living room for at least a week. You can *almost* all of it in this; I stood on the piano bench and held the camera up against the ceiling. http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2183603040049789727AoGzrt To re-cap;...

My son's quilt from his grandma is going to need some repairs soon and I need the expertise of the group. It is not an 'old' quilt per-say. Just one that he was given a few years back that has been loved and thus washed frequently. As a result of the washings and use, the binding is wearing...

Yesterday was groundhog day for my computer. Ever time I posted something it said it would be posted "momentarily" and then I would get a "Server error" from Google. Thinking, that the server ate my post, I reposted, again getting the server error from Google; and on , and on. Finally, Jeanne from...

I know that you are all wondering what is going on with us and that house. Well IT AIN'T A GONNA HAPPEN. The man had told us that there had been a meth lab in it and we never thought anything about it. I was listening to Fox News (I think it was last Sat morn.) and they started talking about...

Off topic, but a blue ribbon nonetheless! I a member of the County Master Gardeners. Every year we volunteer to make the exterior decorations for a 18th Century Home near Yorktown Battlefield. If you were in Yorktown ... it is the last Main Street house, right next to the monument. The...

After moving to PA last year, I was looking for a quilting group or guild to join. The one nearest to me has a limit of 50 members...and wouldn't you know it...I was #51!! But I'm patient, and was able to join this past week. At my first meeting (a wonderful Christmas lunch), I won two door...

Hello, all - been lurking inconsistently lately, just because on top of being 2 baby quilts behind, with a heap of other UFO's, a new interest in knitting socks and a crazy job, I don't have time to post. BUT - I have set my goal of the 2 baby quilts being done in time for holiday presents so I...

I've just finished 'star pockets' from Quiltmaker March/April 2006 #108. You can see the pattern at www.quiltmaker.com/currentissue/108/project7/index.html well, their version, not mine. Theirs is composed of sweet pastels and, of course, mine is done in brights. I used Snoopy, bouncing...

my tech, whom I am teaching how to quilt, was looking for patterns she likes and saw this one...

As of today, it looks as though he'll be coming home on Thursday! The physical therapist was in today, and she said he'd probably have a couple more sessions tomorrow and then they'd be ready to kick him out. I told him today that I'd asked all of you for prayers/good thoughts for his...

Hi, I'm not a regular here, I'm not even a regular quilter, but I am today. I have a 3 yo grandson who had a favorite blankie which was a preused quilt that was given to him a couple years ago. He loved that quilt but the fabric is thin and had begun shredding as he slept with it so we picked out...

During the last snow storm, I decided to fill up the time stuck at home I would take the scraps from the last quilt I made, and make an identical quilt scaled down to baby-doll size. It ended up to be about the size of a pillowcase, and (forgive me for tooting my own horn)....I thought it was...

I got the top for my quilt done but before I sandwich it together I thought I had better have a practice on something smaller. So with a few squares I had left over I decided to make a pillow sham, although it could double as a cot quilt. I got DH to make me an extension table for my machine....

It got here today, exactly 7 calendar days after ordering, shipped all the way from Japan. I ordered four half-yard cuts from Fabrictales.com (NAYY) and it's here. Ok, so I paid $10 for shipping, but it arrived by registered mail and the fabric is so dreamy, so fine. I'm just sitting here drooling...

just uploaded some more pics of soon to be ours (I hope) acreage http://www.webshots.com/user/marigolds22