I have actually finished the free-motion quilting on the banner i was making and I'm getting ready to attach the binding and hanging sleeve!!! FOr once, I've done things in the "right" order...lol....piece, layer, pint layers flat, quilt, trim, attach binding.....this might actually turn out...

Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now. He caught himself a mouse. He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly. Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all about it...

I once again find myself in a fix. I started a quilt back in April before I was hurt I had the top finished, it just needed to be pined and quilted. Today I got to pin the scrappy quilt ( its about twin size, or just a bit smaller) I took it to the sewing machine, and started quilting it ( with...

I really don't know when or if I will ever be able to adopt a kitty. Our beloved Sweet Pea died of Addison's Disease more than a year ago and it was such a hard time for all of us. But - assuming we take a deep breath and dive in, what do you suggest? Our local newspaper bombards us with...

If you were to choose just one quilting book for a present to yourself, which would it be? The way I get "just what I've always wanted" is exactly that - I get it. Just wondering if there's a special new quilting book out there that you have found that is a "gotta have". Since there are now...

Running a bit late with the Directory the year but I've been running late for about the last 6 months so this is nothing new. Let's get through the holidays and then I will open the Directory form for a few weeks. We should have the Directory done by the end of February -God willing and the...

I'm having a problem with my keyboard going dead. If I reboot the computer, it will work again....maybe for days or maybe just for a few hours or minutes. I have NO idea what could cause this. DS bought me a new keyboard after the first one went bad.....(but maybe it was only as "bad" as the...

It occurred to me today (while I had a house full of visitors) that it might be really intimidating for a person to introduce themselves into a room full of strangers at a social event and that usually the hostess would do some intro's and make sure that the person is looked after and happy. In a...

I'm doing backflips over the fact that Houston Comcast and Earthlink have now gotten my news server back up. I don't like that I am back in Outlook Express, but maybe it won't be too long until I can use Thunderbird again. Hugs to those who have needed them, cheers and happy dances to those who...

The quilt isn't a mini...lol. In fact, it's a good size snuggle quilt, and long overdue. My friend Honey has been bugging me to make her a quilt for almost two years now, so this is what I'm doing for her birthday... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jalynne29/my_photos click on quilts, there's only...

Today I won a quilt at a church raffle. It is an embroidered quilt. The fabric was purchased with the blue dots for the embroidery and for the hand quilting stitching. The maker finished the quilt and did not remove the blue dots. She may even have pressed the quilt top. In any case, the quilt...

Down in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Boudreaux gets a job with BP helping with the oil spill cleanup. He reports for work and is told to speak to a supervisor about his assignment. He finds the man and asks, "What it is I supposed to do?" The supervisor tells him to go to the animal shelter and...

Hello! I own an Elna 6003 Quilters Dream sewing machine. My sewing table is nothing more than a flat desk with the SM sitting on top. I've always had difficulty with free-motion quilting, so I've decided to take another class. One of my not-so-local QS recommends the use of an extension table...

I prefer to "keep it local" and am sewing for our county medical center pediatric unit. Ginger in CA On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 1:41:33 AM UTC-7, Jack Campin wrote: Anybody else doing something like this? ...

Hello, I am trying to find a 'threading diagram' for my machine, an American Rotary model # R40. A friend gave it to me a few years back and I never checked it to see if it worked until now. All I found in the cabinet were some bobbins but no instructions on how to thread it or how to advance the...

Hello All, I just finished a scrappy block quilt that I found just a picture of in a quilt magazine. Now I am on to another quilt and this one is named "Lime Grape Fizz Quilt". I am using batiks for my material, colors as close as I can get to the pattern and you can see this quilt or buy...

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I finally have Web Shots figured out (I think), and posted pictures of my sewing room and a few quilts. Gen http://community.webshots.com/user/Coren920

Okay, the first part of my other thread has gotten plenty of answers (the favorite color to use in a quilt part) but the second part hasn't so I'm going to try it here on a different thread since it really is a different topic basically. So here goes: On the topic of my "wedding quilt" which will...

Fons & Porter has a Halloween jack o'lantern pattern called Happy Jack. It was in their magazine in Sep 1999. I know I have this magazine, but I can't find it. Does anybody know if the pattern is available either seperately or in a book? I can get the back issue of the magazine, but I was wondering...