Hello there! I'm new the board, but I have an important question. I want to make a recycled quilt. (A.K.A. using old clothes, sheets etc for the squares) Has anyone ever done this? Any tips? -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

Oh the fun I can have with S.E.X. :D I bought some half yards of 100% cotton... some remnants (Okay,... how is 3m of white cotton a remnant???) and dun dun dun da! A rotary cutter!!!!!! YAY!!!!

I just went through my sewing box, and found all sorts of different feet for my machine that I didn't know I had!!!! A walking foot (YAY!), a zipper foot, a wide toe foot (this is the only name I know it by... the prongs of the foot are splayed out like a cursive "v") I'm so happy! This machine was...

Okay... this is hard to admit... so here goes.... I'm scare to make this quilt. I've not done anything creative in a long long time and this will be the first thing I've done in a LONG time!!!! I have to get it done by Christmas too!!!! I'm really afraid of screwing up and making a major blunder...

I'm thinking of making a quilt for the FlyLady of www.flylady.net fame. She's really changed my life and I'm so happy with the changes in my attitude and my house since I started following her program! I want to make an appliqué of her little Fairy lady with some different cleaning things in the...

Seth died this evening. His brain stem just stopped working about an hour and a half ago. I'm home all alone right now and have some friends coming to stay with me for the next few days. I'm so upset right now and to make it better, Alena won't stop fussing and wants to just be held so I can't even...

Yesterday was Seth's funeral. But while we were at the church, I felt warm hugs and Angel wings. I had to leave the church part of the funeral to feed Alena, she was crying and I didn't want to interrupt. I went to find somewhere to sit and was told there was a couch at the back. I headed there and...

This morning, children's aid closed our case! After five months of convincing them that we're not abusive, alcoholic drug users, they finally agree, and Alena's officially ours again!!!!! -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

I need to figure out how to cut a curve and have it seam flat... Can someone explain this to me? Every time I try, the curvy part ends up looking puckered and ugly. -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

mine won't stay down enough to hold fabric! HELP -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

Is it crazy to want to make my own quilting patterns? I'm thinking of designing a "play quilt" for Alena when she's a bit older. Things with big buttons, zippers, pockets, squeakers etc. Has anyone ever done this before? Aren't I full of questions today? -- Lina Alena born July 1st,...

Does anyone have one? Are they good? -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

Do you put batting in your pieces, or do you just bat the entire quilt? -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

I was showing DH the limited quilting patterns that I have (from a really old Reader's Digest book called "Back to Basics") and he really likes a modified "Windmill" pattern. (There's the 9 squares of the windmill and then a border around them.) I can't believe it, but I'm actually going to try to...

Today I went and bought some more fabric. Ahh the joys of S.E.X. ;D I bought 9 yards of a beautiful green fabric and 6 yards of cream. (They're poly-cotton blends) These will make up the windmills and the area around the windmill. I then found a black poly-cotton blend to use for the border of each...

http://popser.com/ I found this (Well, DH found it... he wanted to see what I was getting into) and wanted to share! It's funny, and oh so true! -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

Okay, strange question from the newbie time. :D What do you use to store your stash? -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

I just bid on some 4" plaid cotton squares for a quilt for my in-laws. ;D -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

Have you heard of this kind of quilt? It sounds so cool!http://www.angelthings.com/brown_bag_quilt.htm I want to try it!!! (It'd help me make a stash! -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email address before sending.

Since you're not actually supposed to use real quilts for babies... I'm going to use another receiving blanket for my batting and an old crib sheet for the back. I want to appliqué a design on the back too. :) -- Lina Alena born July 1st, 2003 www.maternalinstinctscanada.com validate the email...