when you are sick to death of a project? I'm making a clamshell quilt in taupey fabrics and bored witless! I'm on the next to last border and doing almost anything to avoid making more clamshells. I've got to get this done as new (and more interesting) quilts are calling my name! How do you do...

Hi all, After going to the quilt show yesterday, it reiterated that I want to raise my creative senses to include embellishments. I've been buying them over the last couple of months but I haven't used any of them yet on a project. How did/do you learn to embellish your wall hangings or quilted...

I am looking for info on how to make a design wall/ block layout wall ....what ever you chose to call it. I am doing this in anticipation of our addition being done and finally having a sewing room in the new house .Things tend to get done faster if I have everything ready and handy for my DH!(...

I am a beginner, and I have been a beginner for 18 months. I still can't get the back of my blocks to go flat. What I mean is, I can do a four patch that now looks great! The points are butted up together nice and on the back, it's easy to iron because the flaps are all going the correct way...

Guess what I'm doing! Do you organize your thread by color, by fiber content, by spool size, by purpose, or do you have so many spools that you can organize it all these ways? Robin

I hand quilt, but I can never seem to find a comfortable chair or position to do this. How do you do it? Are there any stands that help? I have a quilt that I want to get finished, but it is just a case of finding somewhere or a position to sit in. Where do you rest the rest of the quilt, so...

I'm now working on my sixth quilt project and am still having a problem sewing a good straight 1/4" seam. Most of my seams are accurate enough to allow pieces to properly fit but a lot of my seams (especially long ones) look like a series of minor corrections. My only lessons and training has...

How do you transfer a photo on to a quilt?

I was just wondering if there were any better ways to view these groups than I am currently using. I have been using my mail program, and then I miss a ton of posts. I switched to google groups, but it seems rather clunky. How do you all post? Carol in TX Need therapy? Make a quilt!

Do you sort by color? By sizes (FQ/yards/squares)? By themes? Currently I am sorting by all - mostly colors. I have a few theme fabrics that go together set aside. I have different baskets for different size scraps or squares. And then anything that is 1 yard or more is all put together. ...

Ok, it's been a while since I handquilted but this is a Xmas project so I'd like to use gold rayon thread. The stuff is so slippery, plus difficult to get a small enough knot at the end of the thread that will fit through the quilt surface. Does anyone have any recommendations they've found...

How early do you all start to put out the Holiday Quilts? Fortunately, all in the household here agree that nothing Christmas goes up before December 1 as we're still enjoying Thanksgiving. However, how soon into December came up at dinner. So, are your holiday quilts out all ready, will they be...

Well, like an idiot I selected 'get ALL headers in selected groups' in stead of just "NEW HEADERS!" So please pardon my replies to the two-year old messages! Geesh, how embarassing. -Irene

First, please check out this link- www.starforestquilts.com Pat on her hill sent the link to me. The quilts are fabulous- just gorgeous, BUT.... how far is too far??? I would be happier with calling these "quilts" if the scenes in the quilts were of fabric and appliqued. I would greatly admire...

I just discovered that one friend who got married in Australia over the summer is having a party for their US friends at the end of this month. Another friend just let me know they're getting married in Colorado next month. I've got some ideas, but any suggestions as to VERY quick patterns would...

With all the talk about irons, I was wondering what is the "optimal" temperature for dry ironing, of cotton fabric. I know that most irons have settings that indicate cotton, linen, rayon and so on. That can vary with the iron of course. Once the optimal temperature is decided, could you use a...

I am a quilter and it is really important to me. I am also a 50 year old woman who has had severe RA (rheumatoid Arthritis) for 13 years with an added complication of neurological damage and pain on my right side for the past 3 years (a side effect of one of my meds.) I quilt as much as I can...

Has anyone heard from Pami? I would like to know how her chemo is going. I hope she is feeling ok, or at least holding her own. I know it is rough and one doesn't feel like doing much. Pami, if you are out there I am keeping you in my daily prayers. -- Boca Jan Florida - Land of the...

I kept track of *some* of the steps of making my last double-bed-size quilt so I would have an idea of how much it would cost to make a quilt. Since so many of you were interested in the memorandum of understanding I drafted in an attempt to let the client know how much a quilt might cost, I...

Tonight's profoundidity. I was wandering through an old QNM and sort of read an article entitled 'How long did that take?', a question that pops up often along our quilting journey. The writer decided that every quilt we create has the benefit of every quilt beforehand. "Yes," I thought,...