I took a couple pictures of the raffle quilt at the current stage. It's in my webshots album called "waiting to be quilted". I think I also posted a picture of the needlepunch embroidery piece I just did. However for some reason it says "premium" next to the album. Let me know if you can't view...

I'm 34 and just got told that I have high cholesterol. I'm shocked. I'm not the one eating a big bag of potato chips every night. I am the one that eats salads, and green stuff along with fresh and canned veggies. My husband won't eat this stuff unless I'm home and I put it on his plate. Other wise...

Can you email me please? Karen, Queen of Squishies

Got this from my favorite sewing machine shop about a nearby quilt sto A MUST SEE!!!! Bravo Television Network's QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY will feature a segment shot at The City Quilter, 133 W. 25 st. (New York, NY). The program airs Tuesday evening, June 21st, at 10pm Eastern. In this...

Hello, My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on top of the...

After I came home with the pacemaker I was kind of in the dumps because I couldn't see thatt I had gained anything One of you ladies told me to be patient, it takes time to become bionic. And after that every time I thought about that remark, I smiled, and tried to be patient. It worked I told...

The prayers for my niece are definitely working. The cervical surgery appears to be successful and the doctor is confident that Ellie will carry the baby thru week 35 if all goes as it has been. She is still on modified activity but they are no longer talking in terms of bed rest. The new...

Wasn't there someone in here that really loved dragons?? Roberta (in VA)

I have a bunch of Christmas fabric that I'l like to trade for non-Christmas fabric. Pics of this stash can be found here in the xmas section: http://community.webshots.com/user/calico_jewels It would probably fill a shoe/boot box. If anyone's interested let me know Linda

Today was the first day after starting my new job that I really got time at the sewing machine. I did 2 hug blocks and finished the top for Bella's quilt. I even found 3 remnants in my stash for the backing and binding on Bella's Butterflies. I'll work on that my next day off (tomorrow if I...

I have boxes (plural) of fabrics that are mostly too heavy (some are just not my style) for quilting, that I've finally decided I'll never use. Any takers? All I ask is for reimbursement on the shipping once the box arrives at your door. There are flannels, which ARE for quilters but not for...

Well, I bought the papers in 2000, so technically it could be millennium quilt - okay, so that didn't fly. Anyway, I have been making my 2" paper diamonds, working towards a tumbling block quilt. I have enough made that I can start playing with them. So some questions are popping up for you...

I'm toward the end of a piecing project. Am I the only one who dreads wrestling those last couple seams and pinning the intersections? I have part of it pinned and needed to walk away for a few minutes. I have to do this in stages or I get impatient and sloppy. Since I usually don't pin when I...

Does/can anyone use REALLY little scraps? I have a major conflict in my mental state right now, in that I am generally a vehement anti-packrat, but I cannot in good conscience throw out textile items of any quality above that of dryer lint. Hence I now have a couple of gallons of bits from...

Hello, I have been a lurker here for awile. I am not so good at writting everyday, or week for that matter lol. I am a full time university student, and a single mom with 4 kids so email is usually the last thing on my mind to be writing. I started making quilts for my son's in 2003. ...

I missed out this time around, but how would one go about getting on the directory? Is it for swaps and such? I was on a soap making list before and thats what we had so I may be totally wrong there lol. Anyhow... there is another bit about me. I am a soapmaker :) And anything else...

I hope I am not speaking out of turn here and I don't want to speak for LN, but I think this is important to post. I believe LN is resending the email in two sessions with the Directory attached. I have already received the second email with the attachments and everything worked fine. If you do...

I taught my first class at the Country Sampler Quilt Shop (Papillion NE) last night. It was a Needlepunch class and, I thought, great fun. By the time the ladies left, I felt they were all punching confidently. I do love teaching. And punchneedle embroidery is a neat, quick and satisfying old/new...

I need to piece the next small border on the raffle quilt. The strips are cut 1 1/4". Would you piece it diagonally or just a straight seam. / or l ? Oh I guess that didn't illustrate as well as I thought. And no matter how well I thought I was managing the seam allowances, I always! end up...

I'm leaving thursday for five days. But between now and then I work every day and need to get ready so I probably won't have time to read the group. Meaning when I do get back there will be over a 1000's messages and I will have to mark all as read. Know that my prayers are with everyone in this...