RCTQ Quilting Week - What are you working on?

....that's the stuff, but I forget what it's called...I tried it with 2 small
pieces meant for putting under the sewing machine control so it doesn't
slide away under the table...it worked very nicely.... but I have a larger
chunk which I think will work even better so there are no high - or low
spots creating a wavy surface to cut on.

Alison

"Sally Swindells" wrote in message
...
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

Every week's a quilty week, but this one is special because of all of you!
One of my local groups has a RR going, we're on the final round. So one
mission is to finish this.
The BOM is on the wall waiting for a border decision. Almost decided,
probably start cutting tomorrow.
And this is non-quilty at the moment but actually a practice run: bought a
jacket pattern and some fabric. Cut the pieces this morning, will start
sewing soon. If it goes together easily, I will make another one with
quilted silk. (Silk already purchased, it's more than idle talk :-)
Roberta in D

"frood" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
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

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

I ordered from Big Horn for the first time this week and got a nice big
package of batiks in the mail (yum!), so will be washing, pressing, and
cutting those tonight. I'm still working on the moon over mountain
quilt. I vowed this week not to buy any more fabric, other than
backing, until the Keepsake Quilting summer sale in June, and then
remembered that I promised to take my mother on a quilt shop spree this
weekend for her birthday. Oops. I'll try valiently to only buy things
for her, but it will be a herculian effort.

Also been thinking about the plans for the miniswap still being sorted
out on yahoo group now. And I sent out about 5 squishies yesterday.

Patti, please tell me what size citrus prints you need (and if batiks
work). I have amassed quite a pile from my moon over mountain quilt.

-Lynn

In article ,
(Patti S) wrote:


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

Just finished teaching a class yesterday from that applique book. Nice
patterns, ok muffins. Made the fruit muffins for class (that recipe
went with our pattern) and the batter was DRY. Looked at the other
recipes and this one had less liquid than the rest. Tossed in some
milk. Then made the zucchini ones and they turned out nicely (used 1/4
t cloves though as 1 t is a LOT of cloves!)

marcella

I've been working on more blocks for "Kira's Kitties" and looking through
some quilt magazines. It's really cold here today (-20F this morning) so it
maybe a good day to wrap up in an afghan on the couch, turn on some old
movies and hand piece some blocks.

Anita in frozen Anchorage Alaska (at least I'm not in Fairbanks where it
"warmed up" to -35F this morning!)

Oh! So, I'll cut the corners off and put it on a cutting mat instead of
the table? That might work. Thanks very much indeed - I waited so long
to get it I feel frustrated that I can't use it!
..
In message , frood
writes
I had that problem when I first got it. Now I can't remember what I did. Oh,
wait. Mine doesn't have corners on the base. It is just flat, and sits flush
on the cutting table (on my big mat). If I press down on the top, it doesn't
turn easily, so I just use slight pressure to push it around.


--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

Thanks Alison.
I'll try a bit of extra friction too - perhaps sandpaper, like I use for
writing on fabric? So, a sheet of sandpaper on the cutting mat, and I
should be away! We'll see - I'm not the most adept at gadgets!!
..
In message , Alison McD
writes
Patti , I haven't had a chance to use it yet as I just got it today
(Wednesday)...I was all tied up with other stuff after I got it home...I'm
hoping to put it to use trimming the squares for the church raffle quilt. I
put it out on my table and I think it will be held in place just fine with
just the friction from the table surface...my table is completely covered
with a large rotary cutting mat, if not plan B is to use a piece of that
non-slip rubbery mesh that folks use under the sewing machine to keep it
from creeping away when its running on a smooth surface....not sure what
it's called...maybe other folks here could put a name on it for me...I think
if you try to attach it to something like your tabletop you would run the
risk of it interfering with the top surface turning freely.

Alison
--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

Ah - a UK shop solution. Thanks Sally. That might be better than
sandpaper.
..
In message , Sally Swindells
writes
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


--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

How about planning some quilts in your head. Or play with EQ -- the
yahoo virtual quilt group needs some stirring up ;-)


Anne in CA
annerudolph AT comcast DOT net
"It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got." -- Sheryl
Crow
http://community.webshots.com/user/annerudolph3
http://www.frappr.com/rctq



Cheryl in Oz wrote:
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!

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?

I don't have much time this week but I did finish piecing a VERY SIMPLE
baby quilt top yesterday, in honor or the occasion. :-)

Rita L.

--
See progress of my new kitchen at
http://community.webshots.com/user/ggollymm in the "As the kitchen
turns" album :-)