This is a really cool but different take on caramel apples. You may want to try this instead of the ones with the caramel sliding off ;-) for ease of eating plus the originality! http://shine.yahoo.com/team-mom/inside-out-caramel-apples-150421689.html?vp=1#!myUAc Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

If you had the DVD's for Linda's Longarm Quilting season two, you'd see her episode on shadow trapunto, and you'd see my quilt on the show. :) My first time I just dove in. One thing I learned right away is that you need a STRONGLY colored fabric/batting/fleece for the shadow. And that thin muslin...

Here is an update I just got from Christina. She said I could share it with you, and she is considering coming back to the group. I encouraged her to do so. Here's how she's doing - Karen, Queen of Squishies We now have insurance and I fanilly got to see the dr today.. Looks like I am going...

OK all you US-based chocolate fanatics. According to this site - http://www.sfu.ca/geog351fall03/groups-webpages/gp8/consum/consum.html even Australia rates higher than the States! That is not necessarily something for us to be proud of, but clearly some of you are slacking off on the chocky...

Hi all, Very excited. Have just found out that I am pregnant again and the baby is due first week in June. Feeling a wee bit sick but otherwise OK, but tired. Seem to be getting big quickly - almost out of my jeans already and i'm only 6 weeks. Hoping it's not twins, or triplets.... Morag

Would someone who attended please report on the Long Beach show? Did they work out the long lines which were a problem last year? Did anyone notice The Quilt Merchant booth? It would have been all reproduction fabrics. Susan

Hi folks Just wondering what machine needle you use for machine quilting. Do you always use the 'quilting needle' or just use a fine point or standard one if you are not doing an extra special quilt? I try to use the quilting needle, but often times I only have standard or fine point ones and...

Now that yard work and leaf clean-up is pretty much over for most of us it's time to get inspired to quilt away the winter blues. I've been researching free quilting programs to watch online and found a new resource at www.quilterstv.com. They are just getting started and I have great hopes for...

I got a phone message saying I hadn't posted much on RCTQ lately, but I don't know if it involved the newgroup or the Facebook group. Anyway, I'm here! I've just returned from a two week Lindblad/National Geographic Photo Expedition to Alaska and British Columbia, thanks to my daughter. I...

Well I finally got out and about yesterday. After three really rough weeks and not feeling very well physically, I decided I had just flat, HAD ENOUGH! Told DH that I was taking the day "Off" so to speak and would not be held responsible for anyONE else or anyTHING else for the day. Headed cross...

This is a fairly typical summer week. I do more hot stuff if the weather is cooler. If the weather turns cold, it's easy to substitute steamed broccoli or green beans and carrots for a salad. My menus are based on 18 points per day. Breakfasts: I'm not a big breakfast fan, but I do have...

I taught my first class at the Country Sampler Quilt Shop (Papillion NE) last night. It was a Needlepunch class and, I thought, great fun. By the time the ladies left, I felt they were all punching confidently. I do love teaching. And punchneedle embroidery is a neat, quick and satisfying old/new...

Nikki's purple plaid/denim quilt is finished. After sewing that binding on for hours each day, you'd think I would remember to post about it. I have to make a label, and I have to finish the 2 patching pillows, but it is in fact done. Her birthday is tomorrow, but she'll be away in Forfar to...

Well now, even with the internet, I try Really Hard to support my LQS's - and we're lucky enough to have several here and there. For Christmas, DH got me a Thimbleberries Club 2004 membership to one about 1/2 hour north from here. Basically, we get a card & special patterns and, if we...

I finally (took a year to do the hand appliqué) finished a quilt. And DBF likes it enough that he agreed to hang it in the dining room. Last summer--nearly a year ago--Suzanne Marshall did a workshop on her take away appliqué for our guild. Finally finished that one block, added some borders,...

When you aren't sure of a specific purpose for a gift quilt, what determines how big you make it? When it turns into an odd size do you just finish it or do you try to make it a more useful size? One reason I like giving folks I love quilts is that they're very practical gifts--but not if their...

I have not found the time to right my own bio response but have enjoyed reading everyone else's. I plan to keep all the responses in a folder with the directory. Someone please remind me who started this thread. I think they deserve a reward (soft of course). Susan

Hello from very snowy Alberta With all the wonderful introductions recently thanks to Wendy's Roll Call, I've been trying to figure out how to keep messages that may be useful in the future. Is there a way to save a message and all the messages that are attached to it without have to do each...

An advantage to having DH out of town, I don't have as many distractions to take me from my quilting. Today I finished piecing a mystery quilt and put the border on. Tomorrow I hope to get a ride to town and get backing for it. I got out some pre-quilted fabric that had been given to me. Cut it...

Okay some I'm a couple of hours early (about 4 to be precise!) but I just wanted to wish y'all a happy Valentine's Day and hope that y'all are showed, and indeed show your loved ones, heaps of love. Me? I'm married to someone who before we married sent me the bestest flowers ever, and once we...