Hi all, Well, we just arrived home from our week in NY. on the tail end of our vacation folks started getting sick, really sick. I was so glad none of us got sick. Sammy (he is the baby) was very cranky on the flight home, till I sat with him, then he was fine. We got to John Wayne airport & DH had...

I just recieved the quilt sent for Alena! It's so beautiful! I can't wait until she wakes up so I can show it to her! Thank you thank you thank you!

I am starting to make a quilt for my 3 yr. old grand daughter and her Mom suggested teddy bears. Has any one made a really cute bear quilt? Diane

I have been organizing my quilting projects this morning. I have one quilt sandwiched and ready to quilt, 3 tops ready to sandwich, 2 tops in the works, 4 patterns with fabric, and at least 5 more in the planning. That doesn't take into account the blocks I'm embroidering. Maybe it's time...

In the past I have used a fabric search feature, where I entered what I was looking for, and then fabric shops notified me if they had what I was looking for. I can't remember the url and really need to do a fabric search. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. Marianne T.

I've managed to jam some thread behind the take-up lever on my new Bernina. Since there's a plate hiding the lever, I don't want to just yank the two ends I can see and leave a hunk in the machine. If I try rethreading with a strong buttonhole thread, do you think it will pull the broken strand...

I've been looking for a High Shank free motion foot for a and old SM I have. It's called Electro-Hygiene. Can't find any info at all on the machine. The manual is long gone. This machine is in a cabinet and I've been wanting to use it for free motion quilting. Well Nancy's Notions came through...

It seems like between getting ready, and then spending 10 amazing days there, I've been gone for so long! There were something like 3000 posts!! I had to just do a "catch up" to all. Anyway, my DH and two DS's and I just got back EARLY this morning on a red-eye from Kauai. We spent 7 nights in...

Included in a lot I purchased this past weekend at an estate sale was a Singer Ball Bearing Pinking Attachment, with small instruction guide, copyright 1935. It will not fit any of my machines and I would like to pass it on to someone who could use it. It "readily attaches to any Singer...

I am making a t-shirt for mdn and have run into a snag. She was a softball player in high school and these are her uniform shirts. Two of them are made of 100% nylon. I am afraid to try to iron on the interfacing because I am afraid that I will melt the shirts. Has anyone encountered this...

brought the charm swap envelope.... :-) -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948

My studio is beginning to look like there is 'space' in it again. Every time Jerry walks through here he is amazed. I can even find my cutting table now! I even have the fabric dying supplies put away properly. Now that was a challenge. I still have to go through my sewing box and sort through...

Reminds me of a gentleman I met many years ago. He lost his right arm in a sledding accident as a young child. To teach him how to use his left arm, his mother taught him how to embroider. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Michelle" wrote in...

I'm staying up late tonight to get all the hug blocks done. So I'm on my last one and I have just enough fabric to complete the block in the colors chosen. The block contains half triangles so I cut them at 2 7/8" and sew on the line instead of on either side of the line. Cut, press......

I know it's Good Friday, but for my FMQ it is definitely epiphanic. I have just improved my FMQ by several orders of magnitude (not=20 difficult because it was appalling before) simply by purchasing a new=20 foot pedal/speed controller. For some time I had been able to sew at=20 slow or fast with...

Just have to share my delight with the group!!! I got a birthday squishy today! Isn't it amazing how great a little piece of fabric can make you feel? My DH thinks I'm crazy! Sender thanked privately. Betty in WI

I received an email from Merry Stahel and just by the looks of it I would imagine it to be a virus. So just be careful if you get one from her. I know Merry from the group but we are not close personal friends so that was the first heads up. Just wanted to let Merry and everyone else know. And...

I stayed up an extra two hours this evening trying to finish my mini RR and it didn't work! I'm so annoyed. I'm too tired right now to figure out why it didn't work. :(- (me pouting with my tongue stuck out!) I'm trying to figure out if I should rip it up and start over, or just re-cut the...

I found a new way---for me anyway---to get the back straight. PIN IT TO THE BATTING FIRST. Lay the batting down but leave partially folded; then lay the backing right side up and pin across and down, unfolding the batting as needed; THEN turn the whole then over and start pinning the top on; ever...

Wasn't Simply Quilts on April 16 supposed to be about fabric bowls??? I'm going over my tape and can't find it. I tape the morning show every day. Was this on DIY?? Signed, Frustrated in PA --Heidi