Regarding the recent inundation of Troll posts to rctq. The damage can be minimized easily if everyone keeps calm. Here are some useful tips: Do not read any messages posted from addresses you don't recognize. Do not open any links from Tiny URL or other link services like it, even if you do...

Every Dec, we ask: What are you 'collecting for' fabricwise. .this year I'd like to add what QUILTING things would you like for Christmas so I'll start with: Collecting: Christmas realistic fabrics Quilting: the '5 drawer' caddy that goes under the top drawer on the Horn Sewing

This truly is not a good question to ask just now. I imagine that many of us are stuffed to the gills with Thanksgiving good stuff and another sweet may not be tempting. My quilting buddy (you remember - the one who entered her first quilt show and came home with a blue ribbon and an...

I had shoulder surgery on October 26th. I had arthroscopic surgery and manipulation done. I've got most of my range of motion back and my pain level has gone from 8 to 10 before surgery to 2 to 3 now. I finally got my machine out tonight and started working on some blocks. So far ironing and...

I'm venting about about a "class" I took at a quilt shop last week. I received an e-mail advert for a "class" on improving your embroidery techinques. I called and signed up and then rallied two of my quilting friends to also sign up. The cost was $20 which included a "light supper" and a...

Belongs in a fetish group for psychopaths. Don't these people have anything constructive to do with their time? -- Kate in MI http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves

Go to www.elfyourself.com or www.scroogeyourself.com and then put your face or your friends or family's faces on the dancers! It's really cute! Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

I've got several Quarter Square Triangles to make for a quilt I've started .... and I hate doing templates so I did a search on the easiest way to make QSTs ... and found several sites that each use completely different measurements!! Each site is reputable, so I don't know WHO to believe!! One...

"Sandy Ellison" wrote in message ... Howdy! Why? Because: ~gently snipped while laughing about "O'l Goofus"~ R/Sandy -- staying over here by the Slurpee machine ;-P

I need your opinion, should I use the diamonds or the squares on this quilt? This is a Christmas present for my new daughter in law so it has to be perfect! The picture is below: http://tinyurl.com/2eeywt Thanks! Gwen

I attended a Guild meeting this am. While talking to a friend I found she was going to sell her Bernina 930 on E Bay. She said if I could find a current value for this model, she would let me buy it. Don't want to over pay, but sure would like to have it. I own one I bought in 1983, and have...

nayy just ran across this site and thot these were the cutest cozies i've seen in a while. easily made i reckon without a pattern. the show how bottom pix of them too. says they use poly batting, one even has double batting in it. now theres a way to use up the poly batting you bought ages ago...

Ms P, I have a question for you. My lovely pair of Dovo stork scissors came in a little plastic sleeve -- not at all what these scissors deserve. Do you have a source/link for scissor sheaths? I'd like one (not metal -- probably leather) for these lovely scissors, but my googling attempt has...

I need your opinion, should I use the diamonds or the squares on this quilt? This is a Christmas present for my new daughter in law so it has to be perfect! The picture is below: http://tinyurl.com/2eeywt Thanks! Gwen

I need your opinion, should I use the diamonds or the squares on this quilt? This is a Christmas present for my new daughter in law so it has to be perfect! The picture is below: http://tinyurl.com/2eeywt Thanks! Gwen

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My copy of "Geometrical Quilts" arrived yesterday and it is just as perfect as one would expect from our Pat!! We have probably all benefited from her careful advice in the past - and, as you would expect, the instructions in the book are some of the clearest and best set out I have ever...

Okay, I've made a few pot holders for Christmas presents and am going to back it with the silver heat resistant material....does anyone know if you can actually quilt through it? This may sound funny, but I was afraid it would "leak" the heat to the front if it had stitches through it. I'm going...

My friend's will stipulates that I will receive her sewing machine. Her daughter and the executor are wanting to go ahead and distribute the things in the will so they can close up her house soon. It's a Pfaff 7570 with the embroidery setup. It looks sort of old, but it apparently has some...

http://www.angelfire.com/planet/mcshelpsite/sewingstuff/freepatterns.html/#sites wow, this page is gonna take me forever to work thru, even just those things i'm interested in seeing. might be something there for you!!!! worth a couple of minutes just to scroll down the long page to see what...