RCTQ Quilting Week - What are you working on?

In between work I am trying to finish the binding on the Hummel quilt
for my mom. I am giving it to her on Saturday whether it is finished or not.

Debbi in SO CA

frood wrote:
So... how's it going? What projects are you working on? What other quilty
things are you doing? Reading magazines/books? Sketching out designs?
Shopping for fabric? Rearranging the sewing room/area/nook?

(Still) gathering citrus color tropical prints for my flip-flop quilt
(online shopping)

(Still) gathering fall color plaids for the rag quilt for my dad

Got a new Laurel Burch book today and a lovely book called "Tea in the
Garden - Quilts for a Summer Afternoon" by Cynthia Tomaszewski

Working on my quilt blocks for the "black and white and red all over"
block swap

Mailing a couple squishies tomorrow and got a new "Thread Art" catalog
in the mail today.

Whew!
Patti in Seattle


"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater,
suggest that he wear a tail."
…Fran Lebowitz…

Would putting it on some of that non-slip shelf covering work (I got
mine from a caravan shop, but have seen it in hardware shops, its a
sort of plastic mesh.
--
Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin


On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:28:07 +0000, Patti
wrote:

I'm so glad you brought that up, Alison. I've been meaning to contact
Wendy about hers for ages, and just haven't got round to it!
I have one; but how do you get it to work?
If I try to turn it, with one hand, by pushing on one corner of the top
piece, the whole lot slides around. It slides smoothly if I hold the
base, and if I have the top slightly kitty corner to the base.
Have you got the base fixed to something static? Should I take off the
corners of the base, so that there is only the top layer to touch when I
want to push it round. I have been busy, so haven't had a chance to try
all these things. I might be missing something, but it didn't come with
any instructions for fixing etc, so perhaps that isn't the solution. I
really want to use it.
So could you or Wendy give me some pointers? I'd be very grateful.
.
In message , Alison McD
writes
...but I made myself feel better by buying the 12" square Olfa mat
that has the rotating base...and isn't that the niftiest thing EVER?

Alison

I'm halfway through a quilt I started this week - it has been evolving
nicely

I started with 360 1 x 4 inch batik scraps - each a different colour/shade -
it will be a nice sized WH by the time I've finished

--
Jessamy
In The Netherlands
Take out: so much quilting to reply.
Time to accept, time to grow, time to take things slow
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos
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So... how's it going? What projects are you working on? What other quilty
things are you doing? Reading magazines/books? Sketching out designs?
Shopping for fabric? Rearranging the sewing room/area/nook?

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
un-STUFF email address to reply

good grief! what are they scared of? mad quilter-itis?

--
Jessamy
In The Netherlands
Take out: so much quilting to reply.
Time to accept, time to grow, time to take things slow
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos
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Oh, and I've got jury duty next week! Too bad I can't bring any
handwork with me - no needles. I'll have to find a good book to bring.

Linda
PATCHogue, NY

ohhh you tease you!

--
Jessamy
In The Netherlands
Take out: so much quilting to reply.
Time to accept, time to grow, time to take things slow
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Yes.

chipper (heehee

My sewing guild used to meet in the jury room at the local court house !
We had needles and scissors and all that stuff !....Of course, we met in the
evenings !




" SNIPPED: good grief! what are they scared of? mad quilter-itis?

--
Jessamy

Oh, and I've got jury duty next week! Too bad I can't bring any
handwork with me - no needles. I'll have to find a good book to bring.

Linda
PATCHogue, NY

no searching after to make sure you didn't leave some needles behind for the
next days jury? ;-)

--
Jessamy
In The Netherlands
Take out: so much quilting to reply.
Time to accept, time to grow, time to take things slow
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"My sewing guild used to meet in the jury room at the local court house !
We had needles and scissors and all that stuff !....Of course, we met in the
evenings !

awwww that is just rotten the way they have all conspired against you ! all
is forgiven! you just can't quilt with all that dust flying!

--
Jessamy
In The Netherlands
Take out: so much quilting to reply.
Time to accept, time to grow, time to take things slow
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nothing! No quilting, no sewing, no playing with fabric even - at least
this week or next. I haven't even browsed through my last three magazines.

Between this and my lack of interest in chocolate and coffee I fully expect
to be drummed out of the ng any day now (fearful whimper, trembling bottom
lip, pathetic pleading expression!!)

I had carefully planned to have all my renovations and landscaping finished
by Jan10 and still have a couple of weeks of "me time" to sew before classes
started up again at the end of the month. The projects were designed, the
fabric all washed and pressed, ready to go. Instead I have men digging
trenches today in 100F+ heat (you cannot imagine the dust!), a builder who
won't be here until tomorrow to START on the renovating at the living end of
the house, and a long delay on finalising the annual clean up in the sewing
room (due to flooding!) All this with no prospect of getting any sewing done
this week or next week either. Now I seem to have become the check-in point
for our "group" to leave messages and check on people re the terrible fires
that are only about 10km away. The last of these I am happy to do (although
I wish it wasn't needed), but the rest I could have lived without!

Does knitting socks after I collapse with exhaustion at night, count for any
points at all? I have finished three socks since NYE.

I am determined to finish some quilts this year and will be checking out
Tricia's post for Finishers 2006 as soon as I can get time. But Quilting
Week may have to pass me by this year.

Hope you all have fun!

--

Cheryl in Oz
(chanting under my breath "it will be worth it when it's finished . . . . .
it will be worth it when it's finished . . . . . it will be worth it when
it's finished . . . . . IT HAD BETTER BE!!!!")
http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest
cawaitesATnetconnectDOTcomDOTau

"frood" wrote in message
...
So... how's it going? What projects are you working on? What other quilty
things are you doing? Reading magazines/books? Sketching out designs?
Shopping for fabric? Rearranging the sewing room/area/nook?

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
un-STUFF email address to reply

I've got my BOM top assembled and backing fabric purchased.
Am taking the Bargello Seasons class at Quilt University.
Plan to work more on the rolling stones top I'm assembling for the
mother of a friend of the son of a woman I sing with.
The longarm quilter should be done with my Wyoming Star quilt soon, so
it's time to get cracking and make enough bias to bind a king-size.
Liz