LET ME JUST blow your mind. I've decided that I don't have to cook the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner. I can be just as thankful with a menu that we will enjoy. It's always just me and Mr. Esther and he doesn't particularly care one way or the other. So. I've decided to fix...

Hi all, If you like unusual quilt blocks, have a look at www.quiltprints.com.au Although there are not many, some of them are just lovely and would make great gifts. I am not associated with this company, just an admirer of the work. Cheers, --

Since there has been some discussion in another thread of machine needles thought I would point out a couple of things. G 1. Superior threads now has titanium coated topstitch needles, made by Organ needles but labeled "Superior". They are available in sizes as small as 10. Titanium helps the...

I found a great site called www.quiltingboard.com a lot of great discussions about quilts, quilting and anything else. Also a great resource if you are looking for a pattern, fabric, a book or some other hard to find item. Very nice people there.

The needle on my Janome Memory Craft 4000 broke today. I can't find my extra needles, and I can't find the manual to tell me what to buy to replace it. I'm going to take it to the quilt shop and they'll probably solve the puzzle but just in case, does anyone know what I should ask for? This is one...

My DH has decided that he would like something a bit cooler than a quilt, so I suggested a patchwork coverlet. It will be very simple patchwork -- just 9" squares (9 rows by 9 columns) with a border. I've never seen directions on how to make one of these, so I have a some questions ... Does...

I did "Your Cheatin' Heart" today that would have made Hank Williams proud. Underway just now is a red and white Hunter's Star quilt for a Wounded Warrior. The quilt had to be set aside for a couple of weeks because there just was no solution to what color thread for quilting. White thread on...

Its an old Elna Supermatic. (Yeah, I know that the Yahoo group must be the place to go, but I'm too paranoid to dish out my personal info to get in there, LOL) Anyway, does anyone have one of these old machines? Or perhaps know of others experiences? I have some questions especially about how...

Sometimes it seems I don't get much quilting done. Finally something finished! http://www.flickr.com/photos/desertquilter/ First 4 photos are a quilt I just sent off to an aunt that is having a tough time. I am trying to work on feathers and starts and endings on the mq'ing. I am pleased with...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/onetexsun/ I posted a photo of the second motif on my Crazy Quilt block. Class is over, and now I'm going to finish the block. I made a huge mistake -- I made the second motif at right angle to the first one. So hanging on the wall, one will be 'visually disconcerting'...

It was just a general 'gather and natter' meeting, nice and social. I got the program for next year: some interesting things happening. I ordered some fabric through their fabric club: 4 yards for £12! A couple of William Morris type prints and a nice blue. Got 2 yards of that one as...

I hit an amazing sale and came home with 14 FQs that look really great together -- all purple, shades of purple or complimentary to purple (and one really great yellow). DH's niece loves purple and has a new house. I sense a house warming quilt. So my question for today: what's the simplest yet...

Yesterday when I was moving some furniture and straightening out the miscellaneous things for stitching, I found a forgotten needle puller -- those little round bumpy rubber discs. Well, it crumbled into bits! As it happens, I am a bit of a packrat, and had purchased new shower curtain liners a...

I am looking for parts 1, 4 and 5 of a quilt pattern from the Quilter's Newsletter Magazine from 2006. February through June. The pattern is called Baskets of My Life by Kelly Monroe. If anyone has any ideas where I might find them please let me know. Thank you. Rachel

Hello to all who remember me. I have had a real problem getting down to anything at all, particularly quilt related. I think its the time of year with the short. However I hope I am on the "come back"so to speak.I turned out my basket of my own made batiks and dyed fabrics and decided that there...

I decided to try something that I have never done before. I am making a quilt top without a chosen design. I started to make some pieces that were cut on 60 degree angles and done up into an 8 strip log cabin setting. I did a bunch of them that I then started to randomly assemble into a pattern...

Has anyone here recently purchased a new dishwasher? Ours has just stopped cleaning the dishes and needs to be replaced. It was a fairly cheap unit 20 + years ago and has actually performed fairly well until recently. Except is has always been very noisy. I'm looking for something quiet and not...

I'm converting a bedroom in my new house into a sewing/quilting room. Of course, the only light in the room is a not very bright light in the center of the ceiling. I'm standing in my own light at the cutting table. The windows are behind me when I'm sitting at my sewing machine, so need more...

On Nov 7, 8:13*am, Bonnie Patterson wrote: Sometimes this "old girl" feels OLD, but most of the time I don't understand why/how the calendar says that I am 67! My grandma was old at 67 but I don't feel old, how did that happen? And it's my 38 y.o. son who coined...

On the last page of my Webshots Quilts Album, you can see two of the three Christmas Present Table Toppers I'm making....one for each son and his spouse. The third is finished too, but hasn't been washed yet. Also, the Scrappy 2" squares Quilt is one I recently finished using my Leaders and...