Pictures: Three Rivers Quiltersl - 2004 Quitl Show

Mickie --

Congrats, your quilt is beautiful and deserved first place.

Love in Stitches,

Coleen

"..Mickie Swall.." wrote in message
...
Pictured at the Three Rivers Quilters guild website are the winners
at this year's show:
http://www.threeriversquilters.org/2...%20photos.html
enjoy!
Mickie

What a wonderful quilt, Mickie! Is it hand or machine pieced? How large are
those hexagons?

Inquiring minds want to know!

joan



"..Mickie Swall.." wrote in message
...
Pictured at the Three Rivers Quilters guild website are the winners
at this year's show:
http://www.threeriversquilters.org/2...%20photos.html
enjoy!
Mickie



joan o'reilly
http://members.aol.com/Joan8904/index.html

Thank you for all the congrats and praise, I'm glad you enjoyed
the show. I wish I could show you all the other quilt pictures,
there were over 140 wonderful quilts this year, competition was
pretty stiff.

My quilt is just a simple cobblestone pattern, it's been around for
a long time. I assembled mine the easy way - a modified version
of English Paper-Piecing using freezer paper, I made all the little
octagons and then sewed them together on my sewing machine
with invisible thread in a narrow zigzag. It was way easier (and
faster) than it looks. The border looks tricky, but it was just
a string of octagons appliqued - by machine - onto a solid border.

Those of you that have Electric Quilt already have the pattern:
go to the One Patch layout and choose Cobblestones from the
drop down menu. If you have the free Graph Paper program, it
has an octagon pattern, for this you would have to enlarge the
shapes (mine finished at 2 1/4", though I enlarged them to 2 1/2"
for a class I taught). The difference between the two programs is
that EQ shows the "dots" between the octagons as squares,
GPP displays them as diamonds.

I'll be working up a set of directions for finishing the quilt to email
to the class students (the class was just a tecnique class). I will
be happy to include any of you on that list - just ask! (send
email to mickie at nauticom dot net)
Mickie



"D & D" wrote in message
...
DD just said that she wants a copy of the pattern.....Don't know who she
thinks is going to make it up for her. It certainly won't be me !!!!!!

--
Dee in Oz
http://community.webshots.com/user/deeinoz
"D & D" wrote in message
...
Well Done Mickie !!
Yours is great, no wonder you got a first

Howdy!
Very nice, Mickie; all of them.
Oh, and this one esp.:
http://www.threeriversquilters.org/2...bedpieced.html

What's next? VBG

Ragmop/Sandy--never let 'em rest

"..Mickie Swall.." wrote in message
...
Thank you for all the congrats and praise, I'm glad you enjoyed
the show. I wish I could show you all the other quilt pictures,
there were over 140 wonderful quilts this year, competition was
pretty stiff.

My quilt is just a simple cobblestone pattern, it's been around for
a long time. I assembled mine the easy way - a modified version
of English Paper-Piecing using freezer paper, I made all the little
octagons and then sewed them together on my sewing machine
with invisible thread in a narrow zigzag. It was way easier (and
faster) than it looks. The border looks tricky, but it was just
a string of octagons appliqued - by machine - onto a solid border.

Those of you that have Electric Quilt already have the pattern:
go to the One Patch layout and choose Cobblestones from the
drop down menu. If you have the free Graph Paper program, it
has an octagon pattern, for this you would have to enlarge the
shapes (mine finished at 2 1/4", though I enlarged them to 2 1/2"
for a class I taught). The difference between the two programs is
that EQ shows the "dots" between the octagons as squares,
GPP displays them as diamonds.

I'll be working up a set of directions for finishing the quilt to email
to the class students (the class was just a tecnique class). I will
be happy to include any of you on that list - just ask! (send
email to mickie at nauticom dot net)
Mickie



"D & D" wrote in message
...
DD just said that she wants a copy of the pattern.....Don't know who she
thinks is going to make it up for her. It certainly won't be me !!!!!!

--
Dee in Oz
http://community.webshots.com/user/deeinoz
"D & D" wrote in message
...
Well Done Mickie !!
Yours is great, no wonder you got a first

Couldn't you also do this by making "snowballs" and placing them on point?
Granted they would be tiny little snowballs..........

Pati, in Phx.

"..Mickie Swall.." wrote:

Thank you for all the congrats and praise, I'm glad you enjoyed
the show. I wish I could show you all the other quilt pictures,
there were over 140 wonderful quilts this year, competition was
pretty stiff.

My quilt is just a simple cobblestone pattern, it's been around for
a long time. I assembled mine the easy way - a modified version
of English Paper-Piecing using freezer paper, I made all the little
octagons and then sewed them together on my sewing machine
with invisible thread in a narrow zigzag. It was way easier (and
faster) than it looks. The border looks tricky, but it was just
a string of octagons appliqued - by machine - onto a solid border.

Those of you that have Electric Quilt already have the pattern:
go to the One Patch layout and choose Cobblestones from the
drop down menu. If you have the free Graph Paper program, it
has an octagon pattern, for this you would have to enlarge the
shapes (mine finished at 2 1/4", though I enlarged them to 2 1/2"
for a class I taught). The difference between the two programs is
that EQ shows the "dots" between the octagons as squares,
GPP displays them as diamonds.

I'll be working up a set of directions for finishing the quilt to email
to the class students (the class was just a tecnique class). I will
be happy to include any of you on that list - just ask! (send
email to mickie at nauticom dot net)
Mickie

"D & D" wrote in message
...
DD just said that she wants a copy of the pattern.....Don't know who she
thinks is going to make it up for her. It certainly won't be me !!!!!!

--
Dee in Oz
http://community.webshots.com/user/deeinoz
"D & D" wrote in message
...
Well Done Mickie !!
Yours is great, no wonder you got a first

Congratulations Mickie! Great quilt. No wonder it won!!
Can you tell us how it was quilted???
Thanks for sharing.

Denise in Ontario, Canada


On Fri, 7 May 2004 15:02:24 -0400, "..Mickie Swall.."
wrote:

Pictured at the Three Rivers Quilters guild website are the winners
at this year's show:
http://www.threeriversquilters.org/2...%20photos.html
enjoy!
Mickie




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