Dad is having day surgery for recurrent bladder cancer this morning, and Mom was rushed to the hospital yesterday for a bowel obstruction. She's having surgery also. My sister has flown home and I'm poised by the phone to hear if I'm needed too. Any prayers, good wishes, or extra good karma...

Hi Guys, I will be going to Europe with DH next month. He has to go on business to manufacturers who are somewhere in the southern part of The Netherlands (1 hour from Dusseldorf) and somewhere 3 hours north of Prague. I wanted to ask if anyone knows of any ethnic type quilting stuff I...

Got that terrific fabric for the Quilt Club today. The kids will be thrilled. Two of kids today told me that they had so much fun they didn't want to leave yesterday. Most of them brought more squares home with them over the weekend to work on. One of the other kids asked them why they were doing...

My shelter has asked for booties for preemies. Most of the patterns I've found are either big enough for a 30 pound baby or they are ugly or they have seams that I think could be uncomfortable to preemie baby wee little feet. I've experimented with the project of creating a pattern that is...

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/557517405SmPSAd?vhost=home-and-garden&start=12 or http://tinyurl.com/25y4ee Just so it doesn't get lost in the long thread above - this is the box Patti S sent me and the template I drew (for the sewers here to use to make some of their own). The box...

This maybe a little off the mark for "this" group..... But if you have kids, and would like a FRESH IDEA, of how to use your creativity and spend some QUALITY TIME with them some weekend..... Please check out my new craft webpage at http://www.crafts.terrysbeachhouse.com Totally FUN and...

These are what I have been working on - baby quilts. Thought someone may get inspired or like to look. http://new.photos.yahoo.com/poo_de_doo/album/576460762388878577 -- Boca Jan Florida - Land of the Hurricanes http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/poo_de_doo/myphotos

We have four DGSs, ranging in age from 2.5 to 8 years old. Our elder DD is now expecting our first DGD, who is to be born in May. :) Years ago, I purchased fabrics for a feminine baby quilt and then never had occasion to use them. As soon as we learned of the impending addition to the family, I...

Hey, I finished the Valentine Mystery Quilt top that Jessamy created. http://www.flickr.com/photos/16989612@N00/?saved=1 Fun, fun, fun. It is humanly impossible to cut out pretty pink hearts and put them on pretty pinker/red fabric and not smile. This was such fun. I have not done any mystery...

can anyone tell me the names of any quilting shows, or better still what channels and when! I'm in the Pacific Northwest and we have a middlish level cable package. Anne

OK, so what I had planned didn't work. Rats. The cute Winnie the Pooh satin binding looks like crap on the Winnie the Pooh quilt. So . . . I'm going to bring the blue flannel to the front for binding. Easy-peasy, as NZL would say, NOT!! What exactly do I do with the corners? They are...

I have gone from falling needles to breaking and shredding the upper thread. grrrrrr!!! (Naughty machine is a Janome 4800 QC if that matters...) I started this quilt (the blue and yellow log cabin with fused applique) about 4 or 5 years ago, so I don't really remember what I used for the...

I just sorted my scraps this weekend and am planning to make a sampler out of some of the. I have choosen my BH&G 501 Quilt Blocks Book to use to make blocks for it. The blocks are all 4 in. finished and I've decided I want to leave them that size rather than scalling them up. Problem is...

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2255413940053918257SRyXmx Why is it so easy to add to the "waiting to be quilted" folder than it is to have a finished quilt? I think there's a chip missing in my processor.....the quilting chip!!! It's a misnomer to call myself a quilter..... I'm a...

Morning everyone Haven't posted or even managed to read much for the past three weeks or so. Things have been totally out of whack here recently. Life has a way of hitting you in the face HARD. My mom (65 years old) was diagnosed with colon cancer on January 18 (took about a week for all the...

A huge thankyou for the lovely red squishy for my upcoming birthday. How lovely that you remembered my 21st birthday. LOL (after all if Elmo can me 3 1/2 forever, well then I can remain 21 (at least in my mind). Thank you to Cheryl and the Cats for the lovely E-card too. Linda in Tx

After ooohhing and aaahhing over Patti's gorgeous little gift box I have decided (along with almost everyone who has seen it!) that this new art form must be tried! So I am looking for recommendations on mail order sources for the hot fix crystals and the hot fix applicator tool. If you do not...

Well, I finally finished it! It's embellished and everything! And a special thanks to Leslie who kept me on track and saved it from being a UFO forever. She's great!! Pictures can be seen at my webshots page http://community.webshots.com/user/serendipityquilting And three cheers for...

Would anyone know where I could obtain one from please?

Thank you to all who sent fabrics for my School's Hug Club. We had our first meeting today and it was a HUGE success. 14 girls, 3 boys, 4 parents, 3 teachers, 1 grandma and 1 HS student. I thought I would show them and they would be able to handsew one four-patch. Instead we whipped out enough to...