I visited the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham this week. The standard of quilts entered this year were really good. Those which came in 1st really did deserve it. There seemed to be more wholecloth quilts included, Lilian Hedley - North country Durham Quilts - had a section on her own,...

Wendy, I'm sure this needs a place in one of your quilts, yes? http://www.bighornquilts.com/cgi-bin/Store/store.cgi?cart_id=2871406.27147.s0&product=aanewstuff06&productid=7-3961&sales=0&lastmenu=submenu-5000.html Monique in TX

Looks quite similar in the making of a prairie braid, instructions he http://www.patchpieces.com/prairiebraid.htm You could add a dark square to the end of your strip before sewing to give it the look you saw in the picture Ann http://community.webshots.com/user/mrs_ducky "Terri"...

If there are more folks out there like me, my days are so busy, I often forget what I did the day before. If you enter your information into the Directory form, a confirmation page appears after you hit the submit button. This serves two purposes. It reminds you of what you put on the form and...

I finally got a chance to sew again. I stitched the June BOM applique lady bug. I've tried to send a picture of it to Teri for the gallery but my e-mail isn't working. Probably is some hitch in the program because of the new computer and Agent software upgrade. I'll have to get DH to find the...

Just to clarify, you get a confirmation page when you hit the submit button on the Directory entry form. This shows you everything you entered on the form. You should have printed this for your files. When you press the submit button, I get a copy of the form information as well. So, if you...

Hi folks, At last AOL seem to allow me to see the group again. So after years in the doldrums, here comes me again! Went to Birmingham NEC on Thursday. Yikes, after a while I couldn't look at any more quilts, they were too intimidating. Great stuff though, with huge amounts of gadget hunting...

Just looking at a post a moment ago reminded me that I just recently made my first successful crazy quilt top. For whatever the reason I have always been afraid to make one. I did attempt one a hundred or so years ago before I learned the joy of patchwork and that was such a disaster I was...

I finally finished my grandson's crib quilt, and just in time as his ETA is this Monday, the 21st. As always, there are many little mistakes and the quilt was another learning process, but I'm mostly pleased with it. The camera/flash makes the blue look rather turquoise, when it's actually more...

I must share this beautiful quilt made for DD, who is 9 yrs old, by a wonderful person in Oz. I can't begin to tell you how excited my dd was to open the package and see this beautiful work of art. http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ceridwen_rhea/detail?.dir=56b7re2&.dnm=7ad1re2.jpg&.src=ph DD...

My 'new and improved' computer software has some new versions of stuff on it - installed by a dear friend. She was exhausted when she got everything to somewhat working right. Two questions - the computer is signing her name - Marjorie - instead of mine. I don't particularly object but how...

I took notes during the Eleanor Burns show so I could do a scrappy Fabric Gal quilt, but I can't make any sense of these instructions that I took down... "Cut strips 2.5 & 3.5 inches.Use 4 sets of 2 colors. Make a kind of wonky 4patch, then do the half triangle things with the resulting 4.5 by...

Well, it has been 2 months since DH passed away( June 14th) and I am still a bit "in the pits" but holding my own. A number of people continue to tell me that I am a strong person and I will survive. Looks like I might, even though I, most assuredly, will miss the greatest love of my life. I...

We just returned from Omaha where we attended the funeral of my husband's uncle. The time with family was good. We had not seen some of the cousins in many years. After the funeral and dinner we gathered around a table and looked at pictures that had been found while cleaning his home. (His wife...

well I got the allergy patch today for the test and asked if there was any reason to worry about anaphylactic shock - it's a one in 100.000 chance so exceedingly rare. which is why the use this kind of test nowadays. I can expect itching, a burning feeling stuff like that but I'm to phone if...

I was just wondering if anyone is going to the AQS show this week on August 23, 24, 25, 26. I will be there with my DD on Friday, hopefully all day. DD is a quilter, she doesn't know it yet, so I still have to lure her out for a fun day and then as we are driving around Nashville I will exclaim,...

I was going to start this tonight but no matter how I look at it, it appears to use 6 fabrics and I have 4 selected for each grouping. Is it me or?? -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948

This is a couple of weeks late. DH's big family reunion is every two years and this year, they picked Sunriver, OR, which is 20 miles south of Bend. It was fabulous seeing all the cousins and the kids had fun. Sunriver is about 40 miles from Sisters, so DH insisted that we make that trip to The...

Wow, an early bird! That's wonderful! Such festive colours. I can't wait to see it machine quilted. Curious to see what you will use as embellishments. Thank you for sharing. -- Carole Champlain, NY http://photos.yahoo.com/ceridwen_rhea

Very pretty. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "IMS" wrote in message ... I know, I know....it's only August....but I'm doing a happy dance as I've finished my first quilty Christmas project for this year.