My QI Miss Lucy is costing me several hundred dollars today. I have to buy a new mattress. Yesterday I spent the morning cleaning my bedroom, you know the usual fall cleaning, changing draperies, washing windows, etc. I changed the bed linens, folded up my Hug quilt and laid it on the foot of the...

To all my Jewish Friends!!!!!! -- Rita http://myquilts.com

What am I doing wrong? I've broken 4 needles in the last hour. These were size 80 Schmetz needles too! I'm sewing a polycotton duvet cover, with polycotton thread, and the project is eating needles like there is no tomorrow. I've had enough. Even reading contract law is better than...

In my HD thread, someone (She maybe) asked about how my guild's UFO challenge works. In the Stuck thread, several posters ask about how to choose a project and move on. I think a description of the UFO challenge will answer that issue. Here goes. The Organizers (L&N) set the 'rules' as follows....

This is the final announcement / reminder of the Midwest Meet-up on April 14, from 10:00 am until .......? We're meeting in Charleston, IL at the home of Musicmaker. Lunch is provided. We'll also have coffee, sweets, show & tell, talk, and talk, talk, talk, along with coffee, and sweets. Anybody...

Maybe this gentleman could be convinced to teach a seminar in mini-quilts? http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/microscopic.asp Wouldn't that be something??? Now, I could *almost* envision Pat on her hill working in this size.... (VBEG) Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

The "Do Not Call" Register opened today. Supposedly you can register online to exclude your phone number from all those annoying telemarketing lists. Yippee!! Of course (and most unfortunately) the DNC will not apply to charities/educational facilities(?)/political candidates - but it's a...

I guess that this means either well-used or newly acquired helpful hint that you might have found useful in your quilty life! I was reading a page of hints on one of the bunnyhop pages recently - this hint stood out! I have always had a problem with threads strangling the vacuum beater bar - the...

Therapy and the bereavement classes are helping me a great deal. I will always miss my beloved Terry (and I miss him deeply) and carry sadness with me, but I’m starting to think about my future and new beginnings. My DS, Hunter is a great young man with an old soul like his dad and I. I have a...

After three weeks of the entire family (except the cats) getting sick, I am now trying to fix my hairdresser's quilt and I need help. I am looking for a solid pink in a color best described as Sandra Dee Pink, Pepto Bismol Pink, Puerto Rican Pink (from a Bolivian friend of mine), or just Bubble...

Hi All give these a look if you get a chance http://shorterlink.com/?HC0SCK -- http://www.soundclick.com/kevinduggan http://www.kevsblues.com

Why can't I make a scrap quilt with all my bits and pieces without using a pattern? I have searched the net far and wide and according to all I see and read I must use a pattern even to make something with scraps of fabrics? I guess what I want to know is, how would I sew together all odd sizes...

Hi everyone! Help! I need opinions! Does anyone have a copy of the book 'Taking the Math Out of Patchwork' by Judy Martin and Bonnie Lehman? If so, do you highly recommend it for beginners? Do any current book(s) cover all of the topics addressed in the book? Here's the short version of why I am...

Poor little Giles is covered in hives. She is itchy all over. I know oatmeal baths are soothing, and I can buy some Aveeno bath stuff, but I have oats in my cupboard right now and was wondering if I could use those? Do I need to put them in a muslin bag? Would a paper coffee filter work if I staple...

Hi there folks. I just go back from being away from my home for a couple of days. I am so glad I have a home to come to! In town here there are well over 200 homes gone. We are talking about in town! Some houses that survived other bad fires over the years are gone. I am not far from where the...

Can someone suggest what the best time would be to visit Kentucky to see the big quilt exhibit there ... we'll be celebrating our 25th anniversary this September so are making plans to visit one of our most favourite places. Also I'd like to know what the best quilt shops around there are,...

at www.fabshophop.com for you newbies... if nothing more -- you get introduced to dozens of online fabric shops! I'm down to just one lost lonely little bunny out there -- anybody want to share a hint... not the answer... I'm willing to look.. but a hint would...

This time tomorrow, I should be off the plane, into the rental car, and over the border into Illinois for a week at Machine Quilter's Showcase. Yee haw! Lots of incriminating photos will be taken, and I've got plenty of cash for bail. Just a heads up to all you stash raiders out there. DH will be...

My lovely little not-quite-10-year-old niece is just about ready for her first sewing machine. She was here this past weekend and sewed with me. She has great motor skills and is very intuitive about how things work and connecting concepts. Her great aunt has offered to foot the bill if I will...

Fair went very well. I entered 7 quilts and got 4 ribbons. Mom and I had a joint quilt that won a blue! Finished packing up Mom's house and got her moved to Paducah. All of this between Wednesday and Sunday. I feel like balloon with the air let out, but happy that things went as well as they...