Quilting Forum

Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Latest Forum Posts

Collapse

Trending Forum Posts

Collapse

  • Happy Dance! I won ribbons!
    Home from the Maine Quilts show where my Color my World quilt, rename ‘Home,’ received 3 ribbons. I’m overwhelmed...
  • What I learned
    Well, here it is, the end of 2022, and I finally have finished my 2021 BOM quilt! I apologize that the photo is not centered....
  • Late at this but having difficulty
    Hi There,

    I hope you can help me. I know I'm very late in getting to this point but life is finally allowing...
  • Adding house numbers
    I'm quite behind on my BOM, but now have all the tall buildings of the outer ring done. I would like to add some house...
  • Ahhhhh.. almost done! Have a question!!
    Hi all.. I am behind in my Color My World and just starting the skyscrapers... Does anyone have the finished size (with...
  • My Colorful World With Parks by Duffy
    My quilt is finish
  • Printing for paper piecing question
    For anyone paper piecing, is your quarter inch a tiny bit larger? When I’m trimming up the finished building, I line...
  • Paper piecing color my world…anyone else?
    I decided early to do paper piecing instead of the wax…I’m more comfortable . However, I have a few questions…anyone...
  • Video Access
    Will we have access to the Color My World videos after December 31st? I can't seem to find info on this.
  • New to The Quilt Show
    I am BRAND NEW to the Quilt Show and fell in love with this pattern. I downloaded all of the instructions. My concern is......
  • How to download pattern?
    I'm a new-ish star member and would like to download the "Color My World" pattern...but I can't find where to...
  • Quilting color my world
    See how I quilted Color My World and the added surprise quilting in Wendy’s border:

    https://bbquiltmaker.b...
  • Getting outer circle to lie flat
    Hello - I know someone has solved this problem...I seem to remember a question arising when we put the inner circle together...
  • Great new way to see all the photos!
    Cap'n John showed me a new feature--you can see all the photos posted on any particular topic--at once.

    Open...
  • Color My World Pattern - Download Heads Up
    I know Barbara has reminded us to download all files prior to the end of the year. I finished my downloads today and decided...
  • Color my world — your finish here
    Please use this topic to share your FINISHED top or quilt here. This will make it easy to see all the great quilts everyone...
  • Quilt is complete. Fun!
  • One World — This is Brilliant!
    Sunday Sew and Sews met today. Pam R. came up with a brilliant way to make One World—she used striped fabric!...
  • Loading...
  • No more items.

Virtual Retreat 2017

Collapse
X
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Originally posted by "PosyP" post=140886
    Originally posted by "twiglet" post=140883
    Morning all

    I just joined the TQS miniature quilt exchange. Are any of you joining in, I see Lorchen has joined. As if I haven't done enough exchanges with mug rugs, rows, Chinese whispers etc. :lol:
    Beat you to it :P I joined before they started pairing up :whistle: Exchanges can be contagious. :silly: and besides they called it a miniatures group although it seem a bit large for a miniature to me!
    I'm in too!

    Barb :-)

    Mug rugger and lounge lizard

    Comment


      Geneva - Great looking bowls - I'm thinking something fun for the grands to make.

      Barb :-)

      Mug rugger and lounge lizard

      Comment


        ouch just sewn through the end of my finger, needle broke in it! pulled it out but sore. must use a probe to send edges under foot. what a twit.

        well Rosemary and Barb you've not had enough stress after these rows either :silly: :P
        Hope theres a thread started for it.

        Mug rugger and lounge lizard

        Comment


          Yup! I'm in the mini exchange, too. Signed up the first day. My partner is in Denmark, and we are both fiber artists (as opposed to doing a lot of larger piece worked quilts). So, this should be fun!

          Geneva, love the bowls. I have not done one yet. But's its on my bucket list.

          Since you are chiming in here Barb, I just wanted to let you know that your row (along with Marylyn's) are put on hold for about 6 weeks. I have a push to finish a quilt to get it to my longarm gal by mid June. I need it to fill a huge wall in my Featured Quilter's display. Since I do mostly art quilts, and minis, I don't take up much space, so this biggie will help!

          Dawn

          Comment


            Ouch Wendy!!. I have done that before and it hurts.
            I did not sign up for the miniature group. I have some volunteer work I need to finish by May 3rd, help with the guilds quilt show on May 13th, finish my rows, make one of my granddaughter's flower girl dress before June 10th. One granddaughter's wedding is June 10th, another's is July 21st. Our 50th anniversary celebration is June 17. A nephew's wedding today, and a niece's baby shower is tomorrow. I just want to go sew something fun for me. :blink: :blink: I am looking forward to September when things calm down. Please post pictures of your miniatures. I would love to see them.

            Comment


              I'm in the Miniature exchange. I signed up the first day and was number 60-something. My partner & I are like 2 peas-in-a-pod! Super close friends already and we are going to meet at the AQS Grand Rapids show!! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

              I can't begin to count the things we have in common - a funny thing... our husbands names rhyme! :silly: It is totally a divine appointment! We are excited to be together. We are a Canada/US team.

              Jules~
              (who wants to fix her siggy and photos and all that.... wish that was an option now!!)
              Jules~

              @julesquilts on IG 
              working farm wife and quilter in the off-seasons
              Tired.
              Modern quilter, QOV volunteer, Improv, FPP w/o stitching on paper, freehand quilting on my long-arm.
              BERNINA 790 Pro, Elna Serger, Handi Quilter Fusion, 3 FW,  a lot of old Singers and other vintage and antique machines (25+).

              Comment


                Cathy, unfortunately we are not allowed to share photos of our mini quilts. It is in our guidelines. It is supposed to be a "secret" until the teammate actually receives her quilt. We cannot even share pictures of our work in progress. So, my guess is that that will be one of the Houston exhibits that does not allow photography. (I'm not sure how hundreds of woman can keep a secret, though.) :silly:

                And, I was wondering about a thread, or forum for all of the mini quilters to chat, too. But, I think the goal is for the members in each team to chat with each other and form a bond or freindship that can be expressed through/in a mini quilt.

                Wendy, ooooooohhhhhh! You poor thing! I have not done that, but have a friend who did! She had to have a doctor extract hers, and put her on antibiotics. I have a special tool that I use for that. I make them from turkey skewers, with lots of jewels/beads on the end. And, sell them by the dozens at our quilt show!

                Comment


                  I'm waiting for say partner. JULES DID you choose a theme or any guideli rd between you on what you're going to make?

                  Mug rugger and lounge lizard

                  Comment


                    Lovely Dawn what a good idea

                    Mug rugger and lounge lizard

                    Comment


                      Yes, we know what theme we are going with for our mini quilts. It is so exciting!! We threw around a lot of ideas and then it was fast to cling to one. We know not to share details of what we are making or photos but both wanted to share a theme and have done that. We are aiming high!

                      Jules~
                      Jules~

                      @julesquilts on IG 
                      working farm wife and quilter in the off-seasons
                      Tired.
                      Modern quilter, QOV volunteer, Improv, FPP w/o stitching on paper, freehand quilting on my long-arm.
                      BERNINA 790 Pro, Elna Serger, Handi Quilter Fusion, 3 FW,  a lot of old Singers and other vintage and antique machines (25+).

                      Comment


                        Originally posted by "twiglet" post=140889
                        ouch just sewn through the end of my finger, needle broke in it! pulled it out but sore. must use a probe to send edges under foot. what a twit.

                        well Rosemary and Barb you've not had enough stress after these rows either :silly: :P
                        Hope theres a thread started for it.
                        Yikes Wendy - I can imagine your finger is/was sore!! Hope it mends quickly!

                        HaHa re the rows!! Already have visions of mini quilts in my head. (I figure Rosemary will have tips and tricks for us)!

                        Barb :-)

                        Mug rugger and lounge lizard

                        Comment


                          It won't be mini enough for Rosemary she makes teeny tiny miniature, these ones are bigger than I make most of the time. They're more quiltlets at this size. Mind you if you go for traditional blocks I suppose it's about 1/6th full size rather than 1/12th which is a true mini so a 12" block will be 2" yikes that's small, where's Rosemary! hmy:

                          Fingers fine now bit tender that's all. I'm going to make a Dawn prodder they are so pretty and I have loads of beads. I may use wooden skewers, wooden toothpicks grab fabric well.

                          Mug rugger and lounge lizard

                          Comment


                            Sorry about your finger, Wendy! I use cheap wooden cuticle sticks for pushing fabric near the needle. I feel like I get a better purchase on the fabric with the flat end and have no worries about hurting the sewing machine if the needle hits it.

                            Comment


                              A fortunate error now I have another item to make for the craft fair.

                              Here are my samples for the confetti quilting I'm teaching










                              Now you can see how I did it :lol:

                              Mug rugger and lounge lizard

                              Comment


                                Wendy,
                                I hope your finger feels better.
                                I have always liked the look of confetti quilts, just never got around to making a sample up to see if I enjoyed it.
                                The top one is my favorite, those colors are right up my alley. I think you have sparked my creative bug,,,
                                Your class will definitely be a fun time for all that attend.

                                Comment

                                What's Going On

                                Collapse

                                There are currently 2204 users online. 297 members and 1907 guests.

                                Most users ever online was 20,162 at 03:06 PM on 02-20-2024.

                                Forum Stats

                                Collapse

                                Topics: 8,293   Posts: 155,908   Members: 27084   Active Members: 2,020  
                                Welcome to our newest member, [email protected].

                                Latest Topics

                                Collapse

                                Trending

                                Collapse

                                There are no results that meet this criteria.

                                Working...
                                X