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What is your current project?
Ah yes, we haven't had one of these for ages!
I am working on a Blooming Nine Patch miniature for a magazine article. The nine-patches are 1.5", a nice size for a 9-patch. I was going to do it with 3/4" but I realised it might put too many people off; I'll include the pattern for the 3/4" one though. It has been promised to the magazine for ages - the editor has been very patient, and it has had to stand in a queue for over a year. (It isn't a true miniature at that size of course, but I'm hoping people will see it as a possible start to 'small' g). I'm doing it with Fossil Ferns from very pale blue, to darkest green, in 6 or 7 colours, not sure yet which I'll do. Probably 6!! with the dark green as just the binding. .. In message , Pat in Virginia writes I just read Nana's comment where she said it is time to get back to quilting. Good idea! So, I'd like a roll call of sorts to find out what everyone's current project is. My current work in progress is a quick and easy wall hanging featuring a panel. I bought it, along with some of the coordinating pieces, at MAQF in February. Here is what I read on the selvedge: Happily Ever After by Jacqueline P ______ by _______ster Fabrics. (Some of the cuts chopped up the info.) What is *your* project? PAT in Virginia -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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What is your current project?
With my husband about to embark on 7 weeks of daily radiation for
cancer, I decided to put together a project to take with me while waiting for him at the clinic. I'm making quilted placemats. The preliminary appointments have taken enough time for me to get two placemats done already, so I better find some more projects to work on. Lately I've been hitting some great yard sales and buying lots of material for next to nothing. Last weekend I found about 20 yards of really pretty seasonal prints including 6 yards of a cream colored cotton with bird houses all over it, a light green and chrome three shelf folding, rolling,"island" type table for my stand mixer, a new flash for DH's camera, and a bunch of other thingies for $20 at a Boy Scout yard sale. My fall projects will include washing lots of material. I also want to finally put a back on a Christmas Nativity quilt I made a couple of years ago. I do quilt regularly all summer, but I love snugging up the house for the winter and hibernating in my quilt room. It's still too soon to put the house heat on, but I have a little oscillating heater under my sewing table. Only trouble with that is, the cat and two dogs will all expect to huddle under there with my foot pedal, gets a little crowded. Denise |
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I've just finished a Bears Paw for DD2 in black and gun-metal gray. The gray
is satin and it looks stunning. I'll post pics over the weekend. I also have a top completed for my SILs wedding in January. Yep I am organised for once. But its still got to be sandwiched and quilted. There are 3 baby quilts I want to do for my friend's daughters who have had babies this year. And I have 2 other quilts to quilt - one has been sitting here all sandwiched and pinned for a LLOOONNNNGGGGG time. I don't see me finishing all of them before I go back to work in 6 weeks but I feel like I've got something done this year. Heather in West Oz "Pat in Virginia" wrote in message ... I just read Nana's comment where she said it is time to get back to quilting. Good idea! So, I'd like a roll call of sorts to find out what everyone's current project is. My current work in progress is a quick and easy wall hanging featuring a panel. I bought it, along with some of the coordinating pieces, at MAQF in February. Here is what I read on the selvedge: Happily Ever After by Jacqueline P ______ by _______ster Fabrics. (Some of the cuts chopped up the info.) What is *your* project? PAT in Virginia |
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Myself and two good friends/colleagues from work are putting together
a hug quilt for another friend/colleague, who just two weeks ago was diagnosed with cancer. In our agony over this news, I suggested that we all make a quilt for our friend Leslie, and they thought it was a great idea! So, the three of us went shopping for the fabrics and all pitched in $$. Our friend loves dogs so all of the blocks, and the backing, have doggie themes. We had a 'sew in' last Sunday at my house (the living room looked like a sweat shop) and will be getting together again next Sunday to hopefully finish up the top. What's so neat about this is that while I have been quilting for going on 5 years, neither of my two friends/colleagues have ever pieced a block! One is a long-time garment sewist, the other is just beginning to learn to use her new machine. So, to make it easy (at least I hope is it easy) I printed out 24 heart blocks to be foundation pieced, pre-cut the fabrics and numbered all the pieces so they matched the pieces on the foundation and gave them both a lesson in paper piecing. Wow...did I then remember how much trouble I had when I first started paper piecing!! After a couple of hits and misses, and a lot of laughts, both friends 'got it' and we had a ball sewing up the blocks. Lesli is underoing treatment right now to find 'the source' of the cancer (aparently the tumor is a secondary location) and will soon be undergoing surgery and likely chemo. We hope to have the hug ready for her before, or at least shortly after, her surgery. -Irene On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:34:36 -0400, "Pat in Virginia" wrote: I just read Nana's comment where she said it is time to get back to quilting. Good idea! So, I'd like a roll call of sorts to find out what everyone's current project is. My current work in progress is a quick and easy wall hanging featuring a panel. I bought it, along with some of the coordinating pieces, at MAQF in February. Here is what I read on the selvedge: Happily Ever After by Jacqueline P ______ by _______ster Fabrics. (Some of the cuts chopped up the info.) What is *your* project? PAT in Virginia |
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My experience with radiation for breast cancer was that the treatments
did not take more than a few minutes and there wasn't a lot of wait time. Of course, just 15-30 minutes every day for 7 weeks will add up. But your work will probably be in short bursts. Walking the 6 blocks or so to the clinic often took longer than the appointment itself. Julia in MN Denise in NH wrote: With my husband about to embark on 7 weeks of daily radiation for cancer, I decided to put together a project to take with me while waiting for him at the clinic. I'm making quilted placemats. The preliminary appointments have taken enough time for me to get two placemats done already, so I better find some more projects to work on. Lately I've been hitting some great yard sales and buying lots of material for next to nothing. Last weekend I found about 20 yards of really pretty seasonal prints including 6 yards of a cream colored cotton with bird houses all over it, a light green and chrome three shelf folding, rolling,"island" type table for my stand mixer, a new flash for DH's camera, and a bunch of other thingies for $20 at a Boy Scout yard sale. My fall projects will include washing lots of material. I also want to finally put a back on a Christmas Nativity quilt I made a couple of years ago. I do quilt regularly all summer, but I love snugging up the house for the winter and hibernating in my quilt room. It's still too soon to put the house heat on, but I have a little oscillating heater under my sewing table. Only trouble with that is, the cat and two dogs will all expect to huddle under there with my foot pedal, gets a little crowded. Denise -- ----------- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/ ----------- |
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Okay- just for the record.... just in case- I am not *this* Leslie who loves
dogs... I'm the other one. I am so sorry your friend has this ugly diagnosis and I hope the treatments are very successful and she gets as much joy and comfort from her hug as all us other huggees. What a wonderful thing make for her. And creating two new quilters is good, too! Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. "IMS" wrote in message ... Myself and two good friends/colleagues from work are putting together a hug quilt for another friend/colleague, who just two weeks ago was diagnosed with cancer. In our agony over this news, I suggested that we all make a quilt for our friend Leslie, and they thought it was a great idea! So, the three of us went shopping for the fabrics and all pitched in $$. Our friend loves dogs so all of the blocks, and the backing, have doggie themes. We had a 'sew in' last Sunday at my house (the living room looked like a sweat shop) and will be getting together again next Sunday to hopefully finish up the top. What's so neat about this is that while I have been quilting for going on 5 years, neither of my two friends/colleagues have ever pieced a block! One is a long-time garment sewist, the other is just beginning to learn to use her new machine. So, to make it easy (at least I hope is it easy) I printed out 24 heart blocks to be foundation pieced, pre-cut the fabrics and numbered all the pieces so they matched the pieces on the foundation and gave them both a lesson in paper piecing. Wow...did I then remember how much trouble I had when I first started paper piecing!! After a couple of hits and misses, and a lot of laughts, both friends 'got it' and we had a ball sewing up the blocks. Lesli is underoing treatment right now to find 'the source' of the cancer (aparently the tumor is a secondary location) and will soon be undergoing surgery and likely chemo. We hope to have the hug ready for her before, or at least shortly after, her surgery. -Irene On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:34:36 -0400, "Pat in Virginia" wrote: I just read Nana's comment where she said it is time to get back to quilting. Good idea! So, I'd like a roll call of sorts to find out what everyone's current project is. My current work in progress is a quick and easy wall hanging featuring a panel. I bought it, along with some of the coordinating pieces, at MAQF in February. Here is what I read on the selvedge: Happily Ever After by Jacqueline P ______ by _______ster Fabrics. (Some of the cuts chopped up the info.) What is *your* project? PAT in Virginia |
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Well, following along with Kate here, I'm not currently quilting,
but.... 6 valances for a restaurant (did the seat cushions for them, this is an additional contract) 2 sets of camo curtains for another client, who got my name from the mom of one of DSs friends wool, lined coat for DD to wear with her dresses sweats and flannel pants for DS (DDs Christmas flannel pats are finished and wrapped already!) non-sewing stuff: working on paperwork for DPT/Policy Council for the preschool program that DD is currently in (school-based, head-start and non head-start students) starting to organize tax paperwork for both home and business cleaning out "stuff" that we no longer need Larisa |
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Yes - 'my' Leslie is not *you,* Leslie!! Sorry for any confusion,
all. -Irene On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:25:28 -0500, "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote: Okay- just for the record.... just in case- I am not *this* Leslie who loves dogs... I'm the other one. I am so sorry your friend has this ugly diagnosis and I hope the treatments are very successful and she gets as much joy and comfort from her hug as all us other huggees. What a wonderful thing make for her. And creating two new quilters is good, too! Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. "IMS" wrote in message .. . Myself and two good friends/colleagues from work are putting together a hug quilt for another friend/colleague, who just two weeks ago was diagnosed with cancer. In our agony over this news, I suggested that we all make a quilt for our friend Leslie, and they thought it was a great idea! So, the three of us went shopping for the fabrics and all pitched in $$. Our friend loves dogs so all of the blocks, and the backing, have doggie themes. We had a 'sew in' last Sunday at my house (the living room looked like a sweat shop) and will be getting together again next Sunday to hopefully finish up the top. What's so neat about this is that while I have been quilting for going on 5 years, neither of my two friends/colleagues have ever pieced a block! One is a long-time garment sewist, the other is just beginning to learn to use her new machine. So, to make it easy (at least I hope is it easy) I printed out 24 heart blocks to be foundation pieced, pre-cut the fabrics and numbered all the pieces so they matched the pieces on the foundation and gave them both a lesson in paper piecing. Wow...did I then remember how much trouble I had when I first started paper piecing!! After a couple of hits and misses, and a lot of laughts, both friends 'got it' and we had a ball sewing up the blocks. Lesli is underoing treatment right now to find 'the source' of the cancer (aparently the tumor is a secondary location) and will soon be undergoing surgery and likely chemo. We hope to have the hug ready for her before, or at least shortly after, her surgery. -Irene On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:34:36 -0400, "Pat in Virginia" wrote: I just read Nana's comment where she said it is time to get back to quilting. Good idea! So, I'd like a roll call of sorts to find out what everyone's current project is. My current work in progress is a quick and easy wall hanging featuring a panel. I bought it, along with some of the coordinating pieces, at MAQF in February. Here is what I read on the selvedge: Happily Ever After by Jacqueline P ______ by _______ster Fabrics. (Some of the cuts chopped up the info.) What is *your* project? PAT in Virginia |
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The school year is the slow down time for my sewing, but you know me, I
always have too many things going and just keep adding more. 1. I have a tryptich of Alaska flowers I'm doing in hand applique that I do while watching TV. 2. A stack-n-whack Christmas tree skirt waiting years to be machine quilted. Currently layering. 3. A statck-n-whack nine patch made from leftovers of the above. Same state. 4. Hand quilting a 36 inch square Hawaiian square. Bali purple and Bali green background. 5. Hand quilting a rectangular hexagon quilt, about 2 by 3, then place folded flowers. Teals and Purples. 6. Baby quilt, 6 years over due. I think that is enough of a list at the moment. All are UFO's except the first. I have many other in tubs waiting to be pulled out and finished. That is my plan over the winter. Nothing new, only finish. Steven Alaska "Pat in Virginia" wrote in message ... I just read Nana's comment where she said it is time to get back to quilting. Good idea! So, I'd like a roll call of sorts to find out what everyone's current project is. My current work in progress is a quick and easy wall hanging featuring a panel. I bought it, along with some of the coordinating pieces, at MAQF in February. Here is what I read on the selvedge: Happily Ever After by Jacqueline P ______ by _______ster Fabrics. (Some of the cuts chopped up the info.) What is *your* project? PAT in Virginia |
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On Sep 24, 6:34*am, "Pat in Virginia" wrote:
I just read Nana's comment where she said it is time to get back to quilting. Good idea! So, I'd like a roll call of sorts to find out what everyone's current project is. I am currently machine quilting my DS's grassy patches on his Frog's, Turtles, and Snakes quilt. After that is done, it'll be time for binding and I don't have a clue what I'm going to use at this point. I've designed a Mariner's compass table topper for my in-laws Christmas present, using EQ and one of Carol Doak's blocks. I'm using beach themed colors. I've already washed the two reds with Synthropol (?) to help prevent bleeding. I also have a pirate quilt I've designed in EQ and will be working on that while DS is in school. It's a surprise and I hope to have it finished by his birthday in July. I've already bought all the material for it. I just purchased fabric for a quilt that I'm donating to my DH's class for auction. They are putting together a scholarship and are having on going fundraisers. I've designed this one in EQ too and am using the schools colors of orange and black and the school mascot is a tiger. More than likely I'll be working on DS's quilt during the day and then putting it out of sight and pulling out one of the others in the afternoon and the weekends. I have a few UFO's waiting, but figured they waited this long, they can wait just a little bit longer! lol Launie, in Oregon |
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