Ok, so I decided to take the plunge and start the quilting part of this baby quilt I"m making, and y'all should know that the quilting is the part I don't much like. sigh So I'm sewing along and the machine decides to skip a stitch or ten, before starting again. (I'm freemotion quilting...

Have you ever finished a quilt top, basted, then started quilting, when you realize that ONE little tiny square in one block was sewn in the wrong way? And was it near the center of the quilt? What did you do about it? (in my case, i have to fix it, because it is a quilt that is going to be sold,...

I love my husband very VERY much. I adore my son to ridiculous lengths. Both are intelligent and delightful company. But recently the weather has been iffy, and today is warm, spring-like (about time!), and pleasant, so the two of them have gone out for a shortish hike (about 4 miles across...

Ok Pat, you so wonderfully gave me the right start to getting this silly butterfly done. But I am stuck again. I had to make a new butterfly body and now I have to make another one. Last night, when I got frustrated and gave up, I left my pieces out on the table, thinking that maybe if I just...

I tried to post this about 15-minutes ago, but an error occurred when I clicked the "Post Message" button. Hopefully, the original posing will not show up. I am making a snowball/9-patch quilt using finished 9-inch blocks. I designed the simple quilt in EQ5, mostly to make it easier to play...

I finally, thanks to all of your grand suggestions, got to sit down and sew yesterday. Working on a quilt for a nephew. However, it looks like I will run short of one fabric. It is a blender print Optical Mums, by Kona (I think) in shades of gold. Not yellow, brown, tan, chocolate or...

OMG, its snowing. Not just a little, but a lot. I'm not a fan of snow, and to add insult to injury, its blowing. SIGH This is the perfect day to sit in front of "my" window and sew blocks and barbie clothes, and then plop myself in the recliner and work on my embroidery. Off to take pics of...

This is only "mostly OT" because it also affects my web site (with my quilts, of course G) and access to RCTQ. I've had an EarthLink email address for a long time -- almost eight years. However, a few years ago I switched to DSL from dial-up, which necessitated a partnership between...

I just spent the entire 3-day weekend pin basting a batik quilt. My fingers at the moment look like raw meat. I had to go buy more pins twice--- finished up that pinning just a few minutes ago. Took the sandwhich off the table and, despite all the smoothing and clamping I did as I went along,...

I posted a photo of the top I just finished. When I went back into the studio and looked at it on the design wall, I found a block that had been pieced with the wrong fabric. This pattern had a very specific fabric placement diagram. As I leaned into my closet to retrieve the bag of...

HELP!!! My Mom's stash is being raided! Backup!!! Where's the backup? I need backup!!!! ~Butterfly's DD

HELP!!! My Mom's stash is being raided! Backup!!! Where's the backup? I need backup!!!! ~Butterfly's DD

I've decided to go back and finish up a couple of UFO's -- before starting anything new. Some of them are UFO's because they needed some reworking (I must have been on something to have things so wonky!) So I get this one almost finished.... and realize I am short about a FQ's worth of...

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Has this happened to you? Love the fabric, put the thing together, and just can't relate to it? Maybe I need to live with it for a while, but at the moment, it looks like a stranger came in and sat down. It's the first photo in the WIP album... --Heidi http://community.webshots.com/user/rabbit2b

my ISP dropped the NG without warning! i have of course complained but well... they will probably prefer to keep "adult" NG's and not a tiddly quilting one for some reason i can't fathom sigh Mutter, mutter , mutter and googledoesn'tevenhaveaspellingschecker jessamy muttering somewhere in limbo...

Help! In a fit of over enthusiasm, I deleted the contents of my inbox without copying a couple of addresses out first! I managed to blitz Zo and Charlie! Pretty please - could Zo send hers again, and in case Charlie misses this, it's her new welsh address I need! I think the paint fumes have got...

I cut all my squares out for my latest quilt, all but 20, cause I calculated incorrectly...I had placed all the pieces out on the living room floor & everything "looked" great. So, after I "slept" on what other fabric to include in my quilt, to make up for the 20 missing blocks. I got up,...

Firstly Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate the Christian festival. Just spent a very frustrating afternoon trying to piece what seemed to be a very simple cushion for my DIL for her gift. Cut out the templates, cut fabric and pieced it as best I could using the Spartan instructions in the...

I just starched and ironed three yards of fabric, then measured out the length of sashing I would need between my Wild Goose Chase strips on a table that is 67" long. I needed 83" sashing strips, so I measured out what I thought was TWO lengths of 10" beyond the edge of the table. Then I cut...