Forum: Quilting
September 11th 08, 02:16 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Forum: Quilting
September 6th 08, 01:00 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 72
Views: 3,100
Color test
You could blame it on you monitor, you know. Maybe it is just not
representing the colors accurately?
Jane in NE Ohio
"Debra" wrote in message...
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Forum: Quilting
September 5th 08, 11:23 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 72
Views: 3,100
Color test
Linda posted this on the Quiltersbee list. I thought you all might be
interested
Jane in NE Ohio
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Here is a color test for all quilters....
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Forum: Quilting
August 13th 08, 04:48 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 14
Views: 952
Starflake - what I came up with
WOW!
What a super quilt
Jane in NE Ohio
"Karen, Queen of Squishies" hicall80 @ mchsi.com wrote in message
news:ARlok.295120$yE1.94735@attbi_s21...
Here's what I came up with for the head of...
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Forum: Quilting
July 31st 08, 03:31 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 21
Views: 820
OT something smells
If you think a product has caused an adverse health reaction you can write
(or maybe E-Mail) that company. in the US they have to release info in a
"Material Safety Data Sheet" - MSDS- that tells...
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Forum: Quilting
July 31st 08, 03:12 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 38
Views: 2,534
Theme for August?
Sun, heat, swimming, beaches, summer romances, lawn mowing, corn in tassel,
wheat harvest, fishing
Jane in NE Ohio
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Forum: Quilting
July 31st 08, 03:05 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 11
Views: 671
looking for advise on topic
Good sellers around here are sturdy shopping bags, small handbags, cell
phone necklaces (like a chatelaine only for a cell) and anything John Deere,
Corvette, or NASCAR- lap quilts, baby quilts,...
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Forum: Quilting
July 24th 08, 06:40 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 8
Views: 516
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Forum: Quilting
July 11th 08, 02:48 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 14
Views: 935
Searching for a sweing tool
I don't know the name either, but I saw someone do circles by poking a flat
head thumbtack up through masking tape(poke from the sticky side to the dry
side.) Then tape the thumbtack as far to the...
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Forum: Quilting
July 11th 08, 02:31 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 14
Views: 846
Sampler layouts
I like a layout with square blocks that alternate with a big half square
triangle block. If you set it up right the sample blocks look like they are
set in diagonal rows of dark & light. I've also...
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Forum: Quilting
July 11th 08, 02:16 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 87
Views: 3,970
VERY OT International traveling???
Bottled water IS very popular in the US. I live in a rural area with a lot
of iron in the water- use a special filter so my laundry doesn't turn
orange, and a pitcher with a taste & odor filter for...
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Forum: Quilting
July 7th 08, 05:37 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 16
Views: 986
Knitted Panel
What an elegant version of cables! I am so impressed.
Jane in NE Ohio
"Butterflywings" wrote in message
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Here is the...
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Forum: Quilting
May 29th 08, 11:49 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,518
The mind of a sewer.
Some list I was on recommended "sewist" instead of "sewer". There was a low
of talk about a "sewer" looking too much like drain.
Jane in NE Ohio
"Pat in Virginia" wrote in...
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Forum: Quilting
May 17th 08, 02:38 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 65
Views: 4,481
What happened to Home Ec??? was OTOT fashion whine
I'm going to really date myself here...
DS#1 is almost 30 now. I was appalled at what passed for Home Ec in Jr. High
when he was there. They had co-ed Home-Ec and Shop, didn't spend enough time
at...
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Forum: Quilting
May 16th 08, 01:07 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,701
Freemotion quilting in humid weather?
One thing that might help- if you have some waxed paper tear off a sheet and
rub it over the machine and table where the fabric touches. When I was a kid
we used to sit on a piece of waxed paper on...
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Forum: Quilting
April 17th 08, 05:28 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 7
Views: 624
lights- I can't believe I bought so many
3 weeks ago my sister asked me to get a folding screen for her at the Big
Lots in Mentor Ohio cause it wouldn't fit in Sis's car. I went there on a
Saturday and got the screen, but also bought a...
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Forum: Quilting
December 10th 07, 01:18 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 6
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Photo on fabric
Do you use any product like Bubble Jet Set to pretreat the cloth so as to
"fix" the ink?
Jane in cold & rainy NE Ohio
"Polly Esther" wrote in message...
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Forum: Quilting
November 12th 07, 09:08 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,881
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Forum: Quilting
November 7th 07, 03:46 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,488
Houston Winners
Why are people so impressed with whole cloth quilts and so down painted
quilts and "cheater panels"? That the paint on Hollis' quilt is mostly
thread is really a Wow! for me, but if an art quilt is...
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Forum: Quilting
November 2nd 07, 08:27 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 64
Views: 2,158
OT reception planning
I went to three weddings over the summer- 1 niece and 2 were friends of our
children. Another niece was a bridesmaid in all 3.
1. The bridesmaids will be happier if their dresses can be worn again...
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Forum: Quilting
October 29th 07, 08:32 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 36
Views: 1,605
quilt books
On the other hand----there are more fingers. (Sorry, I just like that line.)
I have a friend who has the spine cut off of all her paperbound books and
then gets them punched and plastic ring binders...
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Forum: Quilting
October 29th 07, 07:38 PM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 26
Views: 1,224
OT time change (whine)
I have to work next Saturday & Sunday nights- so it will be a 13.5 hour
shift instead of 12.5 hours. We all (nurses)have to guess when to adjust our
medication passes, and at least 1 day shift...
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Forum: Quilting
October 9th 07, 04:25 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 8
Views: 864
grape stencil
The website for Quiltmaker magazine has many free quilting motifs.
http://quiltmaker.com/motifs/
You could draw your own wine bottles and/or glasses.
Jane in NE Ohio
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Please note that we have...
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Forum: Quilting
October 9th 07, 03:50 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 4
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metallic threads
What kind of needle are you using? Needles for metallic thread have a bigger
eye. Please don't loosen the feet. It is the tension that may need to be
loosened
Jane in NE Ohio
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Please note that...
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Forum: Quilting
October 9th 07, 03:38 AM Posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,560
Leftovers.......Turkey a Lacking
You know someone who wastes *perfectly good turkey broth* by making soup?!
What is wrong with them? "Everyone Knows" that all flavored liquid that can
be derived from a turkey carcass MUST be used...
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