The cd I gave me for my birthday came in today. Not only do I give Carol Doak 5 gold stars but also hereby award her 100 or so points for a perfect score. What a wonderful cd lesson. Could be even better than in person because I can replay anything I want to just over and over. (She might...

When I was looking at other things, I came across this rather ineresting quilt, which I had never seen before. As long as one keeps the colors straight, it looks fairly easy to do: http://perso.orange.fr/struss/oldbom/baout.htm The page is not in English, but it is fairly straight forward. Bev...

I got fabric in the mail today -- an Ebay purchase from a seller I've not had problems with in the past. But this time there's a problem: All 100 4-inch squares reek of cigarette smoke. And even worse, they reek of whatever she doused them with to try and cover the cigarette smoke. I really don't...

Well, I may have a quilter after all, we'll have to see. My 6 yr old son is showing interest in learning to sew and quilt. At first he asked me to teach him crochet (I was making up a charity afghan at the time). We tried, but just doesn't have the hand control he needs to hold the piece, the...

I've been doing some pondering- I know very dangerous! BG Living alone now, I realized I am paying to keep a tankful of hot water heated for many, many hours without none to minimal usage. If I shower 7 times a week, wash 3-4 loads of laundry and run the dishwasher 3-4 times per week then I...

I could hardly function in my tiny (10 ft. X 10 ft. former bedroom) quilting studio/sewing room. I was frustrated and going crazy in there with the mess and no where to put anything. So I've spent the past week cleaning, buying kitchen and bathroom cabinets and installing those- all by...

They walk among us ~ YES they do! You just might get a chuckle (or a fright!) out of this! I walked into a Blimpie's with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a sandwich. I handed it to the girl and she looked over at a little chalkboard that said "buy one-get one free". "They're already...

OMGOMGOMG!!!!!! Just got a decision in the mail today! You all might recall some years ago, I think I was talking to Kate, that I was grousing a bit about a woman and her daughter who ordered a Very Expensive OOK wedding gown complete with point lace veil, and then about 6 weeks before the day,...

I found this delicious 'panzy pazzaz' print fabric. I want a quilt for my bed and I'm thinking a Double Irish Chain (I do simple quilts for my bed since The HairyButt Gang are tough on bed quilts) using the coordinating fabrics- the background for the chains will be the lavender in the pansy...

Ok so some of you know that I was working on a Mariners comapss for the local (now Canada wide) juried quilt show. Everything was going woderfully until I got preggers and felt like crap for 3 months, I was very worried that I was never going to make that darn deadline but I did and I finished it...

You've talked here before about fabric you just could not cut. I believed you but hadn't come across one myself. Well, somehow it happened to me. It's a magnificent deep sea scene with very real turtles and bright fish. Oh my. So pretty. I couldn't bear to even fussy cut. Scissors in...

A few weeks ago a group of hands shot up to accept the challenge NOT to buy any fabric for the month of October. Well I have reached day 21, and although I have ordered fabric for a couple of students I have not added so much as one inch of fabric to any of the orders for me. How are the other...

But I sent mine today. Don't die of laughter when you see it lol. j/k it is frightning, but I think the worst part of it all is my brother liked it. I am not sure what part of the family he came from... but the fabric is happily making its way to a new home in MS Carissa --...

Because of my past preference for embroidery and applique I have usually had some sort of chatelaine to use when doing hand sewing. Over the years I have made about 8 or 9 for myself, but when I got posted from one Air Force post to another I always gave my chatelaine to a sewing friend when...

Hi, I have a problem I'm hoping some of you can put into perspective. Or help me squash. I have a lovely stash...not huge by any means, but mostly respectable. I've collected pieces from various sources, but I typically don't have much money to spend at a time and I tend to buy smaller pieces. I...

Each year, I try to post a thread on quilting goals. Once I figured out to put "goals" plus the year in the subject, finding the old posts was much easier! I find it fun to go back and look at past goals, to see how the year compared to them. This thread is intended for quilty-type...

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2255413940053918257SRyXmx Why is it so easy to add to the "waiting to be quilted" folder than it is to have a finished quilt? I think there's a chip missing in my processor.....the quilting chip!!! It's a misnomer to call myself a quilter..... I'm a...

Hi, I'm Gina a 38yr old housewife and mother of a 12yr old girl. I live in caerphilly, a town in the South Wales valleys, UK. I've been quilting for about 8 years and enjoy all aspects of it. I hand and machine piece and applique. Although I machine quilt for speed I prefer hand quilting. I...

Now this sorta beats all. Some background. I work in a fairly small elementary school. We have 40 full time female employees, another 40 part-time female employees, 2 full time male employees and 2 part time male employees. We have 4 toilets for the ladies and 2 for the men. Remember, most of...

I've found that checking the profile of a sender (I use google groups so this is an option) will clue me in on the poster. trolls will have no posts or few posts listed in their profile. Musicmaker, who has updated her profile to even include a picture!