My thanks to all of you, Polly, Kate, Tia Maria, Pat, and Roberta for your tips on this project; I will use all of them. The vest will be machine quilted on just the top and the lining will not be quilted, but tacked at the intersecting diamonds on the vest top. The fabric will be quilted before...

Just wondering how that Janome 6500 is working out for you. I have a 4800QC and have debated whether or not to give that to my daughter and get the 6500 for all the quilting that I'm doing. Hate to spend the additional money. Do hope it is working out for you well. Just...

Hi, I've made a yellow brick road quilt and am now about to put the 'sandwich' together. I'd like some advice about how big to cut the backing. I intend to use john Flynn's diagonal join, so that I don't need quite as much fabric, and was thinking of cutting the back big enough to fold the edges...

We got an e-mail from DH friend with a reasonable warning, (since there has been mention of other credit card fraud). I have added it below: Marlys in IN Subject: IMPORTANT !! Keep a watch out for people standing near you in the checkout line at retail stores, restaurants, grocery stores,...

Hi all, I have got some fabric in my stash with strawberries on it and I would love to make a cushion cover or something with lots of different strawberry sort of fabric. If anyone has any bits they'd like to swap, please contact me. Morag

HAs anyone managed to draft a lonestar quilt (a la Jan Krenz) using quilt pro 4... or any other software for that matter? Please tell me how you did it Thanks KAren

I know this is off topic but I feel it is relevent to the group and good customer service combined with high quality fabric is so hard to come by. For anyone who hasn't checked out www.thetabbycat.co.uk I really can't praise them enough. Despite the .co.uk URL I think they operate in the...

Hello, if here are some hopeless addicted paper foundation piecing fans like me, I just want to let you know that since today I got a new pp mystery scarvengers hunt on http://www.lenzula.com/pattern/free/mystery.php You can download the first block for free. If you like it and email a picture or...

Claudia's Quilt Shoppe has a new mystery quilt on line that just started if anybody's interested. It's called Here Kitty Kitty http://www.claudiasquiltshoppe.com/freebom.htm I am thinking of doing it--as if I havent go anything better to do :) -- Kathy in CA Quilting...

I wanted to make a small quilt as a thank you to the team mom on my son's baseball team. Does anyone have any patterns or ideas that would work up fairly quickly. Ideally it will have some place to let the kids sign it as well. Thanks, Nancy

I saw an ad in the recent American Quilter magazine, saying that Hobbs 80/20 (my preferred batting) is now available in black! Has anyone used it yet? How did you like it? Where did you find it? Full of questions, aren't I? ;) -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put...

yesterday I finished the top of Sofia's first quilt. Now I have to figure out how to quilt it to make the stars pop out more, the butterfly fabric is too busy for the design I chose! but the border you guys suggested is perfect, including the narrow cream separation Yvonne mentioned when I showed...

She is quilting on a deadline to try and finish the quilting of TWO quilts before Friday! She says Hi!, and hopes she will get a bit of breathing space in a mad schedule _after_ Friday, when hopefully she will have those quilts done! NightMist -- "It's such a gamble when you get a face"

Beach Cities Quilters Guild will be holding their quilt show June 5 & 6 at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. I will be a white gloves lady in the morning both days if anyone wants to meet up! 2 years ago we had over 400 quilts and it should like we have either matched or exceeded that...

Man, yesterday was a fiasco! I tried machine quilting in the morning and ended up stopping so I wouldn't start throwing things... then I put my work totally away and did the normal housework, running around... Kids went down for a nap in midafternoon and I picked up a simple piecing project...

still having problems, just testing

I can't get past your spam-block service. Please email me with instructions? Thanks, Karen, Queen of Squishies and keeper of the Hug list.. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde *

I sent a message a few days ago about my WIPs. There's pics of my well, WIPs there, including a tumbling blocks WH. I only noticed after I posted the pic in Webshots that one of the blocks has the diamonds switched! Another advantadge of sharing pics with you guys!! :o) -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of...

Did we remember correctly? Did Mr. Joe have his surgery Monday? Does anybody have an update? Concerned..... Pat & Leslie The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me- My dogs aren't my whole life...they make my life whole.

Next week is the time to buy lots! 40% off ALL quilter's calico prints! Starts May 9 for 2 weeks -- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff: http://community.webshots.com/user/kathys1068