On Nov 15, 3:18*am, Sunny wrote: I'm up to my eyeballs with the Advent banner and trying to get a few things done for a craft fair. BUT ... if the HUG has to start over, I'll make several blocks and send them. Patriotic? I can do that I think. I'll start working on them...

On 11/15/2011 2:18 AM, Sunny wrote: I'm up to my eyeballs with the Advent banner and trying to get a few things done for a craft fair. BUT ... if the HUG has to start over, I'll make several blocks and send them. Patriotic? I can do that I think. I'll start working on them later this week -- just...

Howdy! Wasn't that a hoot? And "where are they, now?" It was a good project (doubled), w/ good intentions, and, finally, good results. Cheers! R/Sandy

Our only granddaughter is having a baby in April. It is a boy and his name will be Eli. We haven't had a baby in heaps and lots too long. Happy, happy great-granny here. Eli will have three grandmothers and two great grannies and grand/great granddaddies in all directions so I'm hoping Eli...

Now that yard work and leaf clean-up is pretty much over for most of us it's time to get inspired to quilt away the winter blues. I've been researching free quilting programs to watch online and found a new resource at www.quilterstv.com. They are just getting started and I have great hopes for...

I don't think our Gadget Queen has seen this one and it is pretty close to 'on topic'. Babies need lots of receiving blankets and the ones with a crocheted or blanket-stitched edge are so special. There's a rotary blade that makes holes along the edge of a square of nice flannel that are...

ripping out zig-zag or blanket stitches made by my sewing machine in the course of applique. Now, what's your favorite task to hate? Sunny Yes, miles and miles of it.

On Nov 12, 7:08*pm, Marcella Peek wrote: Is that the one that was quilted so poorly and then took many wonderful hands a long time to pick out and then re-quilt? I'm afraid I bowed out of swaps/hugs etc on this group a long while ago when some round robin quilts...

Hello, I read consistently but don't post a lot, dropping in to say hi and ask a question! My Mom is thinking of getting a lighted magnifier. She saw someone using one a quilting show and it looks like it would really help her as she's learning free motion quilting. It's not an...

We made the decision this week to put Mom on hospice care. We don't know if she will be with us for weeks or months. She has lived a full 96 years and I am very thankful to have had her in my life all this time. She remains at my home. I will have help with her care at least part of each day. Two...

A friend asked about needles for her older 1960's Kenmore sewing machine that she got after her sister had passed over. It has been awhile since I had a Kenmore and used the cams. Which needles do you use for the embroidery stitches? Thank you! Barbara in FL

The quilting is finished on my latest quilt, and I am ready to begin assembling it! This is going to be a BIG quilt -- 9 feet by 9 feet -- and has 81 blocks, each with 72 pieces of fabric, all pieced and quilted by hand (stitch-in-the-ditch). No piece in a block is larger than 2" or smaller than...

I got an e-mail from Pati today. She said that she had been through a rough patch but is now doing better. She said she is working on the quilts again, too. I told her that if it would make life easier for her, I would come get the quilts and take over. Since I can't work on the quilts...

....don't you just LOVE getting an inviation just one week prior to the event? Fortunately, I started planning this quilt when I learned my niece was pregnant (this baby makes me a great-aunt!!!) but I honestly didn't expect the shower to be until mid-December since she isn't due...

I have seen more of my relatives recently than I have in the last thirty years. After they get past the "My you are looking well!" or, "I thought you were sick!" stage, they have tended to fall back on "What are you doing for the holidays?" This usually comes around to cooking as a safe topic...

Hee, he, heeee. While everybody's really busy, I think I'll just sneak in here and mention that it is nearing time for the telling of the Terrible Christmas jokes. There are folks in our family who sail the Christmas tree up before the GBC has even cooled. We're not in that big a hurry but...

Feel the need to listen to old friends and this is the place to find many. Tomorrow I'll go to my daughter's for the feast, but today I feel so sad. The baking is done and all day I've been thinking of my son, so many memories and pumpkin pie was always his favorite. I'm sure tomorrow will be...

Hi y'all. I'm back in the fold again after several years away. It is so cozy and wonderful to see so many of the "old" gang here. Way back at the beginning of time I posted as "Anne in CA". After a "rough patch" that included divorce and many new beginnings, I posted again as "Rose in CA". I went...

ok, buying the DS that used little pfaff has started something in me....i have a hankering for a new machine. My viking has been such a workhorse, but i noticed that the new little pfaff practically purrs it sounds so smooth. My viking? much noisier. perhaps i'll take some time and look at some...

An email supposedly from Homestead Hearth Quilt shop is on the loose this pm (timed with the store's closing time) which is requesting Amex card info to be pre-registered -deadline midnight today, local time - at the store's website to enable customers to receive a $25 credit towards the same...