Hi all, I haven't been around for a while, and actually have not been quilting at all! I had some complications with the chemotherapy I'm on, and ended up in the hospital, and most recently my littlest child has been sick with some kind of virus, and it's been HOT here, and believe it or not for...

Just want to jump the gun and welcome a newbie, Coleen. Welcome to wonderful and whacky RCTQ Land. Kate, Wendy, and I 'met' Coleen over in another NG and invited her to come over here too. With the three of us jumping up and down and waving at her, did she ever stand a chance? G PAT in VA/USA

Hi, Friday night I walked into to climbing gym and saw that everybody was wearing skirts. Imagine (if you can) men climbing in dresses and heels, size 20 prom dresses, sarongs, or mini-skirts, and women climbing in cute, short little dresses from the 60's! I asked what was up and was told they...

I finally took the plunge and tried paper-piecing today. I have some Amish diamond-in-square blocks and I wanted to them to be very accurate because of the bias edges. I don't have any fancy pre-printed papers, I just drew out what I wanted on some paper left over from computer print-outs and...

wrote: Hello, I have an opportunity to purchase a used Bernina 830 from a local Bernina dealer this Saturday for about US$600 with a one year warranty. Get there 1st thing Saturday and get that machine!

Congratulations Lynn. There's nothing quite like finishing your very first quilt - thank you for sharing it with us. We do Happy Dances for finished quilts ( and shorter happy dances for finished stage!! - we enjoy dancing). So I'm tapping a few toes for you here, on a beautiful autumnal...

I wanted to thank everyone who can sent me their scraps and unwanted fabrics. Because of you, I was able to provide over 100 small quilts to homeless dogs, cats and even rabbits at several rescues this weekend. You all should be proud of yourselves for helping to make so many rescued animals a...

I have a question? My sister gave me a handmade quilt she made and gave to me last Christmas. I have been keeping it in one of those vacuum sealed bags. I want to put in on my bed, but I would like to stain guard it before I do. I read on a web site that taking it to the dry cleaner would be...

Jules, you've just done a very traditional one patch. One of the reasons that they're old favorites is because they are fun, easy, quick, and good looking too! Sometimes we need something that we can just "do" without having to agonize over a lot of details. Hope your shoulder gets better soon,...

I was on vacation last week so missed all the posts as I dont get on computer as much as home as I do at work! Besides I spent nearly the entire week sewing :) I started and finished 2 new quilt tops. These are different than the previous quilt tops I finished in that they are in colors I chose...

Butterfly wrote: Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday dear Linda Happy Birthday to you And Many MOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Butterfly (we celebrated ALL DAY for you today :)

Well, someone asked me for a tablerunner like the one I already made, but with a little more green in it! I made it and it turned out lovely! However, the photo on the WEBSHOTS page (URL below) doesn't do it justice! The colors look muddy in the photo, but trust me - they POP. The green is sage...

Larisa, I did that with an antique quilt top my great-Gram had made but not finished. I just added a back and some tie strings inside at the corners to cover a Goose Down duvet. As I recall, I made the back longer than the front so it could fold inside, envelope style. -- Anne "It's not having...

Well I saw the first orange leaf of fall today, on the way to the doctor's. It has been windy lately here, but it was only blowing down green ones! Still, after roasting in that heat wave earlier, autumn is almost a blessing (now my eczema will calm down). I can't wait to see the lovely colors...

Well hello friends. I have been without a computer since Friday evening (either a lightening strike or a power surge) and have been going through terrible withdrawal. The good thing about this -- I did manage to get lots of house cleaning, quilting and crocheting done; the bad thing -- I...

Somehow the taskbar on my DH's laptop has found its way to the top of his screen. Dragging doesn't work. Do any of ya'll know what the magic solution to this is? I know that he and I have solved this problem before, but I can't remember what we did. Any help would be appreciated. It could be a...

1) I dump the ash water, but don't wring out the fabric before putting it into the dye 2)Different designs-- I twist the fabric before putting it into the dye. The tighteer you twist and the more scrunched it is in the jar the more patterned it will be Debbi in SO CA

Thank you Linda for showing us the photos from Plano show. I just love going to quilt shows, even if it is only in my jammies!! Sue BHi, I just posted photos from the Plano Quilt Show 2003. This is a Bi-Annual Event. There were some beautiful, imaginative works there. In my Quilts Album I...

Hello!I have a number of similar themed blocks of various sizes which I want to set into a quilt somehow and am struggling with how to get started on this. My one thought was to create scaled down paper models of the blocks and work with them on paper to arrange into a setting and go from there,...

I have the Dear Jane book (wonderful bedtime reading) and enough fabrics in my stash to get me started on some blocks. I'm sure I don't have enough for the whole thing right now. Would anyone like to do a small swap of fabrics? How much "background" is needed? Yvette