http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes/ see if this can open for you lots of recipes to keep you going all winter. know you wont be doing much baking this summer. hve have a great week.

For my embroidery, I have a CD of designs giving the colours needed. However the colour codes are for Maderia (sp?) threads and I can't always find that brand. Does anyone know where I might obtain a thread colour code conversion chart? Example: if my pattern called for the Maderia thread m1000...

Hello, I've been reading this newsgroup for just a little while and was hoping to get some good advice. I live in Melbourne, Australia. I have two Singer machines, one a 360 Fashion mate and the other a 9015. I've recently come back to sewing after a decade of distractions. I would like to hear...

hey . . . have you decided on Mac's full name yet? your month is almost up . . . hope you're doing well, and working hard . . . do you have an opening day yet? some questions for a Wednesday love mom

Thank you, Anonymous Swisher - for the Birthday squishier. Cathy in BC

thanks to the RCTQ quiltmaker who sent me a lovely lime green squishie and a lovely card with QI pics, for my birthday Cathy in BC

hell. my name is cathy and i am new to quilting. has anyone heard if magic mike is still doing scrps. some one sent e and e mail about him. i would like to learn machine quilting and make a scrap quilt. where can i order scraps. thank you cathy

'Twas The Month After Christmas Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house, Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse. The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste,

hey, neighbours! to all my US neighbours, I came across this on a list I get: Have you filed your taxes yet? The IRS was told to stop collecting the federal excise tax on your phone bill last year and you can apply for a credit on the money you have already paid. It’s on line 71 of your form...

My grandson Mackenzie arrived on January 31, weighing 9 pounds 11 ounces. there are some pictures of Mac and the family, and the quilt I made him on my webshots album http://tinyurl.com/dbpex Cathy in BC

I have been away for 3 weeks - re subscribed this evening, deleted everything because I just don't have time to read all those messages. I went up into the mountains (4 hours by bus, then another hour by car) to the north of Vancouver where I live, to be with my DD while she had her baby. Baby was...

My son & his wife live in Japan, and we use Skype rather than the land-line phone to talk to each other. He uses it for some international business, so he pays for the service whereby he can use his computer to ring to regular phones, but I just use the free service. its kind of fun talking to...

could we all just stop the remarks about the people who post such things just for the purpose of interrupting the usual flow of the newsgroup? Personally, I use Mailwasher, and when I saw an e-mail from an unknown person, I glanced at it (without opening it on my computer), and put it on the...

and, it would probably help if you'd all STOP CROSSPOSTING!!!! yea, I meant to yell Cathy in Vancouver CNYstitcher wrote: Send your message to as well as I spoke with a customer service rep and this was the method they suggested....make sure you...

Does anyone have some ideas of how i can make a picture quilt for my children of their old photos. I have hardly no experience but willing to do this. I have wanted to try this and so now is the time. I want to jump in and go for it. How do i put pictures on the material and make it stay on and...

Once again my hard drive has died just before cutting and sending out my charms for a swap (Nurse Ratched's maybe?) and I've lost all my info (ie size, numbers, mailing address...)!! Please, swap-mistress, e-mail me?!?!?! -- Siptah Columbus, OH

I just finished cutting all my pieces for a small Thousand Pyramid charm quilt (it only has 50 or so triangles) and had a great time arranging all the triangles in just the right spot :). This afternoon I sat down to make a sample "strip" before starting the real quilt, or so I thought... then I...

Thank you to Charlotte Hensen and Christina (via Merry Stahel). I was so excited when I got some squishies. Didn't think they could possibly be for me. They sure made my day. I'll be sure to be using them soon. First I need to fondle a while. Cathy in Oshkosh WI

I am giving my grandaughter a doll quilt for her 2nd birthday next weekend. Does anyone know of a good poem that would be appropriate? Cathy in Oshkosh WI

You know the technique (start with a pentagon shape of fabric on top of muslin-in the middle, then add a strip right sides together, flip, press, trim -keep on going til the square of muslin is full. Well, I have many of these blocks made by using up scraps. Now I don't know what to do...