Well, the blocks are coming in and both Shirley and her daughter Linda are thrilled! Linda can't wait to come see her mom now to see what arrived in the mail! You all are great. It has truly cheered both of them. Please keep the blocks coming. I saw a few and they are gorgeous! Hey Polly,...

I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the...

Hello, Several children in my group have watched me making patchwork things, and are quite keen to try it! I want to give them some projects that will not be frustrating, and will be quite easy to complete. Any ideas? I gave them some scraps to use as bookmarks... but I'm after some patterns...

If you believe you've entered your info in the RCTQ directory form but did NOT get an email from me last night, please email me and let me know. If you don't, you won't be in this volume of the directory. Thank you. -- LN (Queen of the RCTQ directory)

Help! Help! It just dawned on me that I have about three days to come up with a fabulous graduation gift for someone who is like a niece to me. She's graduating from college, and I'd like to get her something small but nice to show that I'm proud of her. My mind is a total blank (not unusual!)...

I just finished a quilt for my father for Father's Day, and used Sulky thread for the top quilting. Well, I just ran it through the wash (cold water, delicate cycle, Dreft detergent) and the thread is running all over the place! The longer I leave it wet, the more it bleeds. I don't know what to do...

I managed to drag myself to the guild meeting tonight! I sure am glad I did. They were all so friendly and welcoming I hardly had a chance to get nervous about not belonging there. The food was good :) I won some fat quarters in a quilty game (trivia and stuff)!! How cool is that! I am...

Well, I bought the papers in 2000, so technically it could be millennium quilt - okay, so that didn't fly. Anyway, I have been making my 2" paper diamonds, working towards a tumbling block quilt. I have enough made that I can start playing with them. So some questions are popping up for you...

Next thing is you stop using dark fabric and threads. My new prescription should be ready in a week, we'll see then. Hey, if I didn't know where the hole on my sewing machine needle is from memory it would never get threaded.! LOL. I keep a few of those cheap threaders around and a very...

My son, Tom, looked much more alert when I arrived at the hospital this morning. It is still hard for him to talk because he has a tube in his nose. He hoped to have it removed today but the doctor said it should stay until tomorrow. The doctor allowed a few ice chips which Tom really appreciated....

Another UFO done. I'm going to keep this one for me. Too many mistakes made and I'm too sick of UFOs to rip it out and fix it. I'm in get it done mode so off it goes to the MQr as it is. Any body asks about the mistake - I plan to tell them I made it that way to spark conversation . LOL!! ...

I am going on a quilt shop hop!! Some quilt stores in southeast Idaho, western Wyoming, central Idaho, and northern Utah (15 stores total) is have it's first annual shop hop. I'm very excited. My friend Susan and I are planning to get to all of them. I live in Idaho Falls and there are two...

Hi I am just finishing a book entitled An Elm Creek Quilts Sampler-which says it is 'the first three novels in the popular series'. I NEED more of this- so can anyone tell me what is the correct order to read them in? When I searched amazon it got very confusing because of publication dates for...

I have volunteered to be on our quilt guild program committee. It is a fairly young guild and hasn't done a whole lot in the past. Meetings are generally announcements, a show and tell and occassionally a speaker -- but usually a very INFORMAL gig! Mostly what happens is people sit at...

How I spent my afternoon? Mama J and Papa K are moving into a retirement community at the end of this summer. Mama J is an avid quilter, who has only slowed down since her breast cancer diagnosis last year. BUT, she has to reduce her stash and quilt stuff. She has been begging me to come out...

A few years ago, I bought a Nifty Notions walking foot at the Keepsake Quilting sale. It's a "high shank" model, and I've realized now that I need a low shank model. I think these are $29.95 retail and I paid $4.99...the package is marked "as is," but so are all of the items at the sale, and it...

At least I think it's Terbear who's keeping the BOM gallery. (I'm hopeless with remembering names.) Anyways, I've only got one more block to go to get caught up with the applique BOMs, and I noticed that my pieced BOMs are on the gallery but not my applique. Yahoo applique...

Does anyone know of a website that walks you through the process of cleaning your sewing machine? I took a class a couple of years ago---but I don't have any notes. MIL gave me a terrific little Janome that has now seen enough hours use to need a good cleaning---but I don't want to bugger up...

Didn't notice I was gone, did ya? Well, I was in the Outer Banks of North Carolina since May 22nd. I brought my laptop but the dial-up there was spotty at best, so I wasn't on long even when I did connect. I did hold happy, healing and comforting thoughts for all of you that had/will...

I'm having tea in my home, on the 6th of July, for anyone in the area who is interested. We'll meet here at 10 am, have tea, and maybe hit a couple quilt shops and have a time of show and tell? Please email me if you're interested. craftigirl at earthlink dot net -- Jenn/Jalynne navy Wife,...