http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2905099040062000453BYRtsn I have never been so glad to finish something! Those little sashing strips were a major PITA! joan :

Can ANYone on here get through to me at my email address? Or is EVERYone being bounced? Something just doesn't look quite right, and I need facts. I've emailed my isp but I have a feeling I'm going to have to track down a phone number and talk to them in person. I want to at least sound like...

I want to share with you the graduation quilt for our youngest grandson. The quilt pattern (more or less) is a Tad Plaid from QNM '02. Most of the fabrics are Sunshine from Moda. You can see the line in lots of shops, most of it is shown at The Stitch-N-Frame. The backing, a very special...

I am just furious and don't really know how to respond to this.. I just received an email from my uncle about an email I sent my aunt......Occasionally I send my aunt...in her 70's a forward from someone....I try very hard never to include her email address in forwards, I have removed her from...

C'mon outta the woodwork, Lyn, and say hello to all these nice people. C'mon nice people, let's all give a big welcome to my friend Lyn! I know she's here, cuz she tole me so.......... And she does GREAT quilts!! And has an absulutely ADORABLE little Q.I. who knows just how to run the whole...

Several weeks ago, I posted about the trouble I had working from a flawed pattern I found in a book. The pattern was supposed to be based on tile work found in the Moorish Palace, the Alhambra, in Granada, Spain. Here's the finished quilt: http://www.julia.rocky-dog.com/Stars.jpg The...

Is it just me, or are a lot of quilters overquilting their quilts? I recently attended a quilt show where it seemed to me an awful lot of the quilts had been quilted way too heavily. It seemed that if the quilter had a long arm, she thought the quilt should not have one 1/4" that wasn't...

Hello! Well, after several years of totally inadequate lighting, I am going to have put in good lighting in the room I use to quilt. The choice has come down to using 1. track lighting with Verilux full spectrum incandescent bulbs or

I love our whisks, my DH loves our whisks, we both hate how we store our whisks. Upright in a jar they snag and get tipped over, in a drawer they get tangled with other utensils, the hanging hooks in my kitchen are behind the stove (which is just dumb) and the space between the cupboards and...

Last fall, I took a "Piping Hot Curves" class from Susan Cleveland. I completed one "Eye of the Piper" block in class, then left them to work on Christmas gifts. Last week, I got back to my class project, finished the blocks, added the small border that the pattern calls for, and am now...

I got kiri to run me out to buy a box of wood screws, and bought a refrigerator. I just don't _do_ stuff like that! But kiri wanted to go to the mall after I got the box of fasteners, and then bribed me with fish and chips when I didn't wanna (hate the mall, hate it hate it hate it!), so I went...

This project was over a year in the making, but I am pleased to say my mom & I have finally finished it! Woo-hoo! I've already sent a personal email to the ladies who contributed scraps of yellow to the project--but if I missed a contributor, then please accept our sincere thanks! We might still...

You'all have been SO patient with me over the last 5 yrs of Mr Joe and My ill health that I HAVE TO SHARE this with you. I AM SHOUTING HE MR JOE WENT BACK TO WORK TODAY!!!!!!!! Boss is aware of the med problems and is very willing to work with him NOT around him. He is back to what he knows...

Hi I'm trying to put together a list of things not to forget for retreat/classes. Obviously sewing machine, cords, extensions, fabric, rulers, cutters, iron, ironing surface, design wall, thread, gadget box scissors, snips, notebook, pen pencils, marking tools, pins- straight and safety,...

I use a lot of spray starch during quiltmaking. Once upon a time (just this year) was able to purchase Niagara Starch in a non-aerosol plastic spray bottle. Now the stores no longer carry starch in this type of bottle, they are back to the cans. I would like to empty the contents of the aerosol...

I'm so swelled up with pride we'll have to open the double doors just to get me in and out of the house. We'll need a king-size bed and will have to borrow Rusty's bloomin' quilt just to be able to rest my Big head. Did I win a blue ribbon? Nay. Better, better, better than that. The...

Just thought I'd let you all know I'm having hip surgery on wednesday, I'm specifically anxious about post operative pain, though probably overly so as I have had a botched surgery in the past. All my previous surgeries have been in the UK and they are much happier to have you stay in hospital...

The guild I belong to has been around for 20 years and we have probably done a total of 2 surveys in that time. We are thinking about having the general membership complete a survey once every 2 years or so. I was wondering if any of you have an opinion on what should be included in a survey of...

I've just finished making the quilt top from a Sharyn Craig class (Northwind blocks), and once again I'm puzzling over what sort(s) of quilting motif(s) to use when I quilt it. :S I love to quilt (machine or hand), but I really hate having to decide *how* to quilt! G Any suggestions? The top...

Been quiet but my hands haven't. This is to 'replace' an afghan I made DS in '83. It's taken a month to do it and re-do it until I was happy. this is the first of the repeats. not sure If I'll do 6 or 7. I do so want it done by Christmas this year: Photos haven't been cropped..you can see the...