My guild is hosting Carol Doak tonight, it should be a fun meeting. I have a couple of her books and I really enjoy paper piecing. I'm due for a little fun, it's been a long fall and winter. I was on a heart monitor for a month, then I had to put down both my cat, Steve, and my dog, Kaz. A...

I've been working on a large floral quilt for my son to donate to an auction in April. His MBA class at Penn State holds the auction each year as part of "THON" which benefits children with cancer. Today I was all ready to make the binding and sew it on. Wouldn't you know it? I didn't...

Lurker here, need help. I'm Mary Ellen, quilter (sort of) and cross stitcher. I read a post regarding advice to piece together a large quilt. A book by Georgia Bonesteel was recommended but I don't know which one to buy. Any help????? Thanks ! Mary Ellen

One of the fine people I have met on Etsy is a gal whose graphic designs would translate well into fabric. She hasnt a clue how to even start making this happen. What is the first step? Who can she contact and talk to about getting her designs into the right hands? Does anyone here know?? If you...

This is a kit I bought at my LQS a couple weeks ago. I cut it out last night and finished piecing it today. I thought the fabrics were cute! The pattern is a simple stack, slash and shuffle the pieces. Similar to a Turning...

I'm working on a 39x63 baby quilt with six inch flannel blocks and a three inch satin binding. A few of the blocks are four patch and the other blocks are solid panels. What type of quilting is best for a baby quilt? I intend to have the binding filled with all three layers of the quilt sandwich....

We finished our first quilt today! We will donate the first few quilts to Project Night Night. The lower grades are collecting jammies, blankets and toys for homeless children and packaging them in tote bags. http://www.projectnightnight.org/ I will be heading to Northern Virginia & Southern...

Someone posted a link to a quilt with applique heart blocks, and all the blocks were made a little wonky. Anyone have a link to that quilt? Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere

If you go to http://www.greatcanadianshophop.com/ the first video has a binding lesson that is quite good. It's about midway through the video. Also if you scroll down past the first three videos you can download any of the three to your hard drive so you can review it later. Really nice. If...

I got to see Dr. Susan Mech on SQ this morning and thought she was wonderful. She had some fine ideas on how to be a quilter without doing yourself bodily harm. Some of her suggestions were probably out of the question such as the height she recommends for the bed of the SM is mighty low. Mine...

I didn't answer your question about rolled hem when I answered your private email. I don't think a rolled hem would work at all on polar fleece. You would have way too much thickness. -- Donna in Idaho Reply to daawra3553 at yahoo dot com "Jacqueline" wrote...

We are getting iced out here in my area. Icy trees, and high winds, and more snow coming. I'm shutting down, and will check in during spring thaw. Karen, Queen of Squishies ----- www.PlayPianoNow.info

Here in central Maine, it has been snowing for about 4 hours. 1.5" of it on the ground. Bring it on as we too are set with food, water, generator, etc. All the surrounding schools were closed today with the exception of ours. 30 minutes after I sent my kid to school on the bus, we received a...

On Feb 14, 9:00?am, IMS wrote: Snowed in!! There's a snow emergency here in central New York! 16" plus a few more expected tonight for the Rochester NY area. And we had another snow day here, the second in two weeks! woohoo!

I'd try machine basting the edge to hold it from stretching, and then apply a regular cotton binding to the ege with a walking foot. Musicmaker

Just wondering if your new baby would like a beautiful new batik to carry around? You simply MUST check out this sale.. http://www.stitch-n-frame.net/cgi-bin/Store/store.cgi?cart_id=1562719.22343.s0&lastmenu=submenu-5000.html&menu=submenu-2100.html I see a new doggy quilt in your...

http://www.byannie.com/images/wicked_easy_quilts_patterns.pdf nayy, just found this via a yahoo list. cant recall who wanted a design for FQs and not yet coherent enough to find the post i sent about it now either. so here tis another one. groggy in summer in the south pacific and not looking...

Is there a kind soul out there who knows how to create .pdf files for reading using Adobe Acrobat and can help me please - please email me! TIA, Suzie B -- "From the internet connection under the (undamaged end of the) pier!" Southend, UK -- Please remove NOSPAM when emailing me!

Question one: Without googling, if you've never seen Soamoan quilts, what do you envision in the way of patterns, colors and motiffs for baby quilts? Second question: If you are familiar with Soamoan quilts, what are some of your favorite links?

Here in southern MN, we've had a fair amount of snow. We actually have more snow here than in northern MN. They cancelled the John Beargrease sled dog marathon in the Duluth area because of lack of snow. More about the John Beargrease at http://www.beargrease.com/. Julia in MN IMS wrote: ...