Went to my relatively LQS yesterday. I had signed up to take one of their classes and needed my material. It was also their Open House for fall classes so fabric was 10% off. The class I signed up for is the Spring Floral Wreath. (NAYY but if interested in looking at the picture/pattern, t'is...

I've been meaning to try my hand at applique. I ordered Darcy Ashton's books Grandma's Bunnies and Darling Dogs and boy are they cute!! I thought I would start off the easy way and use one fabric for the entire dog, and machine applique. I'm using steam-a-seam and tracing the pattern on the...

I have gotten started on my applique.........first time go at it. I've dabbled at it before but not serious. The bunnies are way too cute. I've posted a couple pics of them in my "in progress" album if you care to have a peek. I started off with 5 blocks of the puppies........ a trial run. ...

I have finished the Grandma's Bunnies quilt top. Well except for adding the last border. I am pleased with my first applique project. The bunnies are so cute. Posted pics are in the In Progress folder. But how do I quilt this now? I don't have time for anything fancy. I was thinking of...

Finished machine appliquing a wallhanging this afternoon. Have to add the golfer yet though. Can't decide if I should add the man or woman. Directions gives the pattern for both. I'm very pleased how it turned out. And considering the bunnies were my first applique attempt, I leaped right in...

Hi all I'm going to be starting a new quilt, just as soon as my fabric arrives. So I'm sitting down and calculating what I need to cut so I'll be ready. Pattern is Duck's Foot in the Mud from Quilter's Cache seen here http://www.quilterscache.com/D/DucksFootintheMudBlock.html I will be making...

I need some help..........Is Pure Almond Extract really made from nuts? This is what the label says: Almond Ingredients: water, propylene glycol, alcohol, flavour I made a cheesecake and the recipe called for 1/2 tsp of almond extract. Not thinking, I added it. My DIL is allergic to nuts...

I'm making a quilt for my nephew who is getting married in July. Their home decor colours are neutrals with turquoise to add colour. I have the quilt top done, which measures approx 80 x 100 without borders. The backing is turquoise, on the blue side. I'm debating on whether or not I should...

After reading before the holidays about Leslie's caramels I decided to try a batch. As I was making the first batch the phone rang and while I was looking for the phone, scorched the batch a bit. So needed to make another batch to which I added peanuts. DH said first batch didn't taste...

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"...

Finally finished my Weaver Fever quilt.........the beast!!! And doing a very very happy dance!!! I was so worried about the light stitching showing on the dark colours and vice versa when I shouldn't have been........like many of you told me........all at once now..."I told you so" G I'm...

I've been quite busy lately. I have added pics to my webshots.....the last 4 in my album. See siggy line for link. I have the tops done of DH and my DP quilts. Christmas present for him so I thought I would make myself a cooridinating one. I started them 2 months ago so they have progressed...

I started my second PP project. I seem to pick the advanced patterns for a beginner. Anyway, 4 smaller blocks are put together to make a 12" block. But there are 28 seams that all meet in the centre. This makes it very bulky in the centre of the square. There must be some way to reduce the...

I'd like to try my hand at applique. I thought I'd start small, like a baby quilt. Does anyone know if there are any free applique patterns online suitable for a baby quilt? Like bunnies or puppies? If you have any book recommendations with patterns that would be great too and I can maybe see...

There's a lot of online quilt shops out there and everyone has their favourite, as do I. I had ordered 1 yard each 24 diff moda marble fabrics for a future specific project but a new project came along and I dug into my colours. The 1 yard was a bit short but no problem, I'll reorder more. ...

New project is the weaver fever pattern in blues and reds.....queen size. Spent the morning cutting all the strips so now I'm good to go on the sewing. Our hockey arena burned down last summer and our town is pulling together to rebuilt and that means lots of fund raising. There will be a major...

Been really busy sewing this last week....started the cutting just last Monday, plus the day job cuts into sewing time so I'm happy with my progress. Have half of the blocks needed for my weaver fever quilt and I've layed out the blocks and have posted them.....last 2 pics in the More Quilts...

I finally have my weaver fever quilt top done!!!! Last pic in my "more Quilts" folder. Planning to sandwich and pin baste Saturday and start on the machine quilting Sunday and Monday. I plan on using my walking foot and doing grid lines, following the weaves. Matching thread depending on what...

Hello everyone! Hope the day is going well for you all. In June at my quilt guilds quiltshow I purchased a set of fatquarters with blocks with pictures and several coordinating fabric fat quarters. Now the question is, what the heck do I do with them. Keepsake quilting has such lovey medleys of...

On Monday I bought myself a new Janome 6500P from my relatively LQS. Janome is replacing this model with another so my LQS had them on sale. Sad part is I'm so busy I won't get any decent sewing time in until April. I have a day job...secretary. I also bartend/waitress a couple nights a week...