This is a really cool but different take on caramel apples. You may want to try this instead of the ones with the caramel sliding off ;-) for ease of eating plus the originality! http://shine.yahoo.com/team-mom/inside-out-caramel-apples-150421689.html?vp=1#!myUAc Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Good morning all, does anyone have this machine? if so, i would like your opinion. i have about $1000-1200 to spend on a new sewing machine. i want to get one that has lots of fancy stitches and does embroidery. i have been searching the web and the singer futura ce-200 seems to be within my...

My best friend brought her sewing machine over to me last night to see if I could do anything with it. Her boyfriend bought it for her last Christmas so she has had it for a little over a year. It is a Brother XL6562. I think he got it at WalMart. sigh I don't know why he didn't ask me first. ...

I hope all our RCTQ members are high and dry. The Northeast has certainly had some bad flooding. Have any of you seen it first hand? -- Kathyl remove "nospam-" before mchsi http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz

For the past couple of months my newsreader has been much slower than normal. It can take up to 10 seconds to load a message now whereas before it was almost instantaneous. And the few times I've tried to post to the newsgroup I thought it was going to time out. I'm presently using the...

I would like to know more about dying.

What am I doing wrong? I've broken 4 needles in the last hour. These were size 80 Schmetz needles too! I'm sewing a polycotton duvet cover, with polycotton thread, and the project is eating needles like there is no tomorrow. I've had enough. Even reading contract law is better than...

I have a pattern for a 9" flower basket block, with four sets of "spikes" up each side, and a different pattern for a 10" flower basket block with three sets of "spikes" up each side. What I need is a pattern for a 12" flower basket block with four sets of "spikes" up each side. Why does every...

Therapy and the bereavement classes are helping me a great deal. I will always miss my beloved Terry (and I miss him deeply) and carry sadness with me, but I’m starting to think about my future and new beginnings. My DS, Hunter is a great young man with an old soul like his dad and I. I have a...

To all my Jewish Friends!!!!!! -- Rita http://myquilts.com

Why can't I make a scrap quilt with all my bits and pieces without using a pattern? I have searched the net far and wide and according to all I see and read I must use a pattern even to make something with scraps of fabrics? I guess what I want to know is, how would I sew together all odd sizes...

Poor little Giles is covered in hives. She is itchy all over. I know oatmeal baths are soothing, and I can buy some Aveeno bath stuff, but I have oats in my cupboard right now and was wondering if I could use those? Do I need to put them in a muslin bag? Would a paper coffee filter work if I staple...

Hi there folks. I just go back from being away from my home for a couple of days. I am so glad I have a home to come to! In town here there are well over 200 homes gone. We are talking about in town! Some houses that survived other bad fires over the years are gone. I am not far from where the...

Some of you have mentioned these from time to time, and I've seen some of the patterns, which look amazing. Who here does these regularly? What is your opinion on them? Do you find them expensive? Just wonderin', Lynne in Toronto

Can someone suggest what the best time would be to visit Kentucky to see the big quilt exhibit there ... we'll be celebrating our 25th anniversary this September so are making plans to visit one of our most favourite places. Also I'd like to know what the best quilt shops around there are,...

This time tomorrow, I should be off the plane, into the rental car, and over the border into Illinois for a week at Machine Quilter's Showcase. Yee haw! Lots of incriminating photos will be taken, and I've got plenty of cash for bail. Just a heads up to all you stash raiders out there. DH will be...

My lovely little not-quite-10-year-old niece is just about ready for her first sewing machine. She was here this past weekend and sewed with me. She has great motor skills and is very intuitive about how things work and connecting concepts. Her great aunt has offered to foot the bill if I will...

I decided that I just had to have a design board. There was a sheet of used paneling left over from our remodeling project standing in the garage. We cleaned it up and brought it in. Didn't know if it would do or not, but I covered it with some cheap, stretchy baby terry. Had to unearth very...

Hi All give these a look if you get a chance http://shorterlink.com/?HC0SCK -- http://www.soundclick.com/kevinduggan http://www.kevsblues.com

http://www.quilterscache.com/S_U/TexasRoseblock.html This is what I would like to do, But again because it is from quilterscache I cannot work out the math. :( They are 12" blocks finished... I do know I will need 5 across and 7 down or 35 blocks just of the rose blocks alone. how much yards of...