http://home.howstuffworks.com/sewing-machine.htm I thought these pages explained a little more than I could, just posting in case any1 else hasn't seen it before. Maine-iac Rose @--- remove the thorns to email me

Kia Ora, Checking in again, here, I see, and I see that my fellow Aucklander has temporarily moved Stateside. So, in her absence, how about a well-organised stash raid? I say this politely for two reasons - given that we have time on our hands there's no need to shriek this from the rooftops...

You reading quietly Rita. Was wondering how you and Martin are doing. SInce it is hurricane season I hope he has a new rake. BG Taria

okay, I need input. We are doing a lottery block for the quilting bee... everyone who makes a block gets a chance at winning all the blocks for the quilt..... the blocks are to be 15 1/2" square this time.... I measured VERY accurately this time until i did the final assembly. there are 25 little...

Dear Quilters, I had been going down stairs to my "quilting room" where I fractured my vertabra last April rearranging and the rest of my muscle system lifting the 20 some bins of Quilting materials to make a great looking Quilting Room. On last Thursday I had another accident and can't walk, but...

Hi, still new here, but wanting some input from the group. A little background is probably needed he I've worked on every presidential campaign since 1974. I stuffed envelopes for McGovern. My picture is on the back cover of Bill Clinton's autobiograpy. I gave up every day off I had in 2008 to...

How big is a baby crib quilt?

I found my old RCTQ list --- hehehehe Please tell me how big a squishie is, I've forgotten. -- Boca Jan Southern Florida - land of the hurricanes http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/poo_de_doo/my_photos

The one-eared mice quilt is now being bound. Since we discovered that silk thread could be discombobulated by some laundry products I decided maybe I'd better use something else. I don't know where the mice are going and can't hope for gentle treatment on wash day. Decided to use plain old...

I know the program should be able to deal with hexagons but I can't find the right button. Will someone please share the secret. I have a number of Stack and Whack hexagons made and want to play with a layout. They need something separating them. The brain isn't working this morning. Susan

Can I somwhow cut up this old mat and make templates out of it, or what else can I do to recycle it? It has too many deep groves in it to be used any more. Thanks, Cyndi -- Cyndi, RCTQ's Reining Queen of Anything Chocolate

Every quilt I ever put together had this problem at the "pin the layers together" stage. I lay my quilt on a table and pun with safety pins. When it is all pinned I start to hand baste. By about the 3rd row I am noticing that the top has a slight buckle in it. I then pull out all the basting...

What purpose does a remailer have? If legitimate people want to send something -- they send it under their own name. There has to be a way to shut down these remailers who allow people to send out anonymously. This is so frustrating! I hope there is a special place in hell for such perverted...

Actually, the subject should be something like "do I need to quilt over every single piece of fabric in my quilt?" - but that is too long! I've done a quilt using that method of pieced circles that lots of people were raving about on here 2-3 months ago, and now I am quilting it. It has a...

http://www.lazygirldesigns.com/blog/?p=154 for the quilter who has everything perhaps. j.

How Dare Could America Industrial Property Office Be In Conspiracy With Jungang International Patent Office To Make An Extravagant International Crime ? Currently a Korean party now holds the American patent 4919933, the Taiwanese patent 37414, the Japanese patent 2733523 and a Korean...

Hello to all the bakers, There was a bit of a question along the lines of "how good is that recipe, really?" They were fighting over the last slice of one version at work. They were ripping hunks off instead of slicing at the neighbour's, and the girls NEVER eat fruitcake.

Wendy/frood posted this link to thread where we posted our goals for 2005. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.textiles.quilting/browse_frm/thread/a183fe0edc8779f3/0b239a606ed95b7f?q=frood+goals&rnum=1#0b239a606ed95b7f or the tiny version: http://tinyurl.com/cpbtm I accomplished part of...

On the EE website it said : Stella special BBC Three delves into Stella's psyche with a one-hour programme exploring the Walford bully's demise. So, i thought this was all about Stella.. how she became the crazy lady she turned out to be. Silly me... Much to my disappointment it tuned out...

How do I go about making an e-mail address change on the new directory and on the HUG list? My ISP, Alltel, has been purchased by Windstream, and eventually we will need to change our address. A neighbor who called them said we would have two or three years, but that we might as well go ahead and...