I want to thank everybody who has answered my numerous questions about FMQ. (Just because I'm thanking everybody, don't fool yourselves into think you've seen the last of my questions though. ;-) ) I've taken your advice--a bigger needle, slowing down, then slowing down some more, and I'll be...

I will happily make pie and punch for everybody who wants to make a field trip to behold the school staff in their native habitat. Here it is, word for word, comma for comma: "Dear Parents, The Erie Zoo Field Trip scheduled for Friday July 31st as been changed to tommorow, Thursday July 30th due...

I'm trying hard to make my peace with templates, but I have problems making pieces with templates. No pun intended. Really. I hate using templates. The tiniest bobble when copying the lines ends up magnified all over the quilt, in every block. I've made good copies of the templates on "template...

http://www.homebaking.org/baking_channel.php http://www.homebaking.org/PDF/nine_patch_revision09.pdf here is the recipe alone. i didnt look at the video as i'm on dial up and would take forever to download. just thot a quilt cake might be a fun addition to those quilty potluck get...

Here is a link to a page in the Australian mag, Down Under Quilts in which my close quilting buddy, Glad, has a profile of one her creations. Just wanted to share with you her stunning work. It also has an important link to the tragic bushfires earlier this...

Hello Here is somewhat of a fix if you want to see Bronnie's friends quilt in the magazine. Go to this link http://www.downunderquilts-digital.com/downunderquilts/issue135/ Click on the pages tab. This gives you a faded out screen shot of all the pages. Hold your mouse

Would someone please explain to me (in terms you'd use to explain it to your sweet, cute, but hopelessly quilt-ignorant spouse) what a charm quilt is? I think I heard the term "charm" used to describe a particular small piece of fabric (akin to a jelly roll strip?) and it looks like some of the...

I have uploaded some pics from one of our small town Quilt shows. It is a small town and I didn't expect to see anything amazing but I was very impressed. There is only a few pics I didn't not have time to take pics of all the quits but there were many more there. I'm also unsure about posting...

Did anyone go to the Hershey Show? A friend and I spent most of the day there Friday. Lots of beautiful quilts in the show, and many, many interesting vendors. I bought one of the new thimbles mentioned in RCTQ....rubber with a metal tip. It really felt good on and didn't slip off, so can't...

Thank you so much for all the emails and posts of condolence for the loss of my husband, Wayne. We had a lovely graveside memorial service including the Honor Guard from Mountain Home Air Force Base on July 16. The past two or three weeks have been the worst weeks of my life. My oldest son...

I finally finished my celtic knot quilt. The link is the overall view, and the next two pictures in the album are a closeup of the quilting and shot of part of the back. http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2034925170049789727wtauIj So the bonkers thing I tried on *this* version of the...

Have any of you used the patterns from Quilt Blocks Galore? If so, do you find that the blocks come out at 12" unfinished? I've made a few and they all seem to come out at that measurement - maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I thought I was being very careful. It does say on the site '12"...

I would like to invite any of you midwesterners to come on out to Charleston IL in Oct. The 9th and 10th to be exact. Rockome Gardens, a unique and interesting place to visit in the middle of the IL Amish community, is having a quilt show of mostly local quilters. I've hosted a weekly quilting...

Just when you have time, would you please use your wonderful search skills and see if you can find for our newer quilters that incredible Worst Quilts competition? I guess it was nearly 10 years ago. The incompetence and problem solving was such a belly laugh. My personal favorite was the one...

Has anyone used the Soft Scraps printable fabric sheets? I was at the Long Beach Show, and the distributer was there. The quality seemed very nice, as well as a lovely hand to the finished product. I will be in need of several packages of printable fabric sheets and was just wondering if...

MIL, almost 89 years old, went into the hospital in Tucson for a partial knee replacement on Wednesday. She came through the surgery just fine, but she's been in extreme pain (much more than she'd been told to expect) and then developed difficulty breathing. On top of that, the night nursing...

OK, this is going to be the largest raggy quilt I've made to date: I've started doing a raggy quilt slipcover for my couch. Once I finish that, if I've not run screaming down the road yet, I'll do one for the recliner. Both pieces of furniture are in good shape---only two years old---except that...

My third quilt is finally done! This will be a Christmas present for a dear friend who loves blue and collects antique blue and white china. I think she'll love it. It went fairly simple as far as quilting it goes. I used stippling for the edge and a curvy grid pattern for the interior of it. ...

While looking through furniture stores today dd and I happened on a really pretty embroidered import quilt. I walked over to take a look at it and dd shoook her head and made this comment: "made lovingly by chinese dissidents". Kid gets her sense of humor from her father. Taria

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2863692460053918257QmtexF Here's what I made this afternoon after Polly guilted me into making a baby quilt for my nephews baby #2. Now I just have to keep on it. I tend to view tops as finished.....but you can't gift them that way, can you? I also...