Working 50-60 hours/week doesn't leave much time or energy for sewing but I find I miss it. On vacation I planned a 9p and Ohio Star blue/white scrap quilt, which sounds nice but feels too taxing when I only have 1-2 hours/week to sew and, as Pooh would say, very little brain to do it with....

An ad I placed in the local Freecycle yesterday brought an immediate response from a young lady who wanted the cat to give to an older friend who's cat died last month. She came and picked her up this afternoon, and now the dear kitty has a new home. I'm so glad it doesn't have to go to a shelter...

it's 11 days post surgery now, and as expected pain has subsided a lot, the doctor gave me a scare as when I saw him on Thursday he was not at all reassuring about my pain diminishing and soon being off the meds, but saying that I needed to because of the potential for addiction. As the acute...

Winston has grown up enough to warrant his own photo album! I took these photos of him when I realized that he had managed to jump up onto a narrow window frame ledge behind a venetian blind and a lace drape. He's out of luck during the winter months though because the slider is now closed for...

I've got several Quarter Square Triangles to make for a quilt I've started .... and I hate doing templates so I did a search on the easiest way to make QSTs ... and found several sites that each use completely different measurements!! Each site is reputable, so I don't know WHO to believe!! One...

Thanks to the help you gave me with names of things and how American houses are constructed, with some prodding and poking DH has got my drawers up on the wall! So now, I'm slowly working through all my bits and bobs and putting them away, labeling the draws as I go (I have to label to have any...

yikers, it's getting bad! I've seen other groups as active as this one go under due to spam, please don't let that happen to this one, keep posting your quilty thoughts, ideas and questions and lets have some real conversation! Off to think of some conversation starters.... Anne

That's what I've been finishing. Also a quilt for my DD's 21st BD on New years eve.

I'm putting together a very simple quilt from Christmas fabrics. As I wanted to use up all the fabric, the design has 2 main borders and because of the colours, I needed to space them out with 2 narrow borders. The fabric is very busy, so I think quilting will be just what is necessary to hold...

I have a half dozen or so unfinished Christmas projects in the works so figured the only sane thing to do was start some more. ~snort!~ I found this darling quilted kitty tea cozy pattern (FREE!) and I'm making two for Christmas gifts. One I'm doing in an orange batik for my friend who has an...

I'm doing the Northcott Flower of the Month Club, our store is actually a few months out of synch, so we'll being doing January to April of 2007 in 2008. Along with each month's fabrics, there has been a fairly consistent set of background fabrics, mostly single colour floral, with the change...

Have you seen this one? It's a quilt of the periodic table. http://www.sfu.ca/chemistry/ptable_quilt/ Linda PATCHogue, NY

I have been attending a Hospice course to be a volunteer - it's a wonderful course for sure. Tomorrow night is our last class with a social hour after ... I made up potholders in the log cabin design to give to everyone, and I'm trying to think of an appropriate something to say - short and sweet...

I recently saw an advert for a quilt show/festival, which mentioned a section for quilters under 35. I thought I must remember that, maybe one day I could enter something, but then completely forgot which show it was and where I saw the advert (or maybe it was an article, there was some info...

7 Powerful Tricks to pickup Dates this Season! Hope you tried my Super Powerful TIP-1 to find dates. http://tinyurl.com/2g9ptw Great, isn't it? As promised, here we go with the TIP TWO: Use the Power of Net. There are many General Social Networking Sites, but you may want to avoid those. These...

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http://www.geocities.com/rctq_quilters/index.htm Click on the link at the bottom for the BOM. And I thought I was going to wait until the weekend to create the new page!!! Can't resist HTML or chocolate. It sure didn't take long to do -- maybe ya'll better check everything carefully! Let me...

Sorry to be so late getting this posted.... the gorgeous Oriental fabric I chose had other plans than mine. I thought it could stand on it's own, but it demanded something special! That took extra time- quite a bit of extra time! It has a pretty Oriental-ish looking pieced and appliqued...

I need to get a get a gift for my SS. I'm on vacation near an Ikea and was wondering if anyone had an idea of something I could get from the store to use as a quilty gift? ym

Since we're making tinyurls taboo for a bit, I hope you won't have to paste this one together to get the http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/beloga_not_your_grandmothers_sewing_machine_8124.asp While it's kind of sleek looking, I'd still want a bigger throat. Interesting,...