TILDA THREAD

[Eileen K.]

If it was in the middle of the room, I'd probably break a toe!! :lol: :lol:
I'm putting the last border on my convergence, then I start fusing :shock:
eileenkny

[Frances L.]

Mary (and anyone else wondering about "crumb" blocks)
Here is the website for the "crumb" blocks: http://www.quiltville.com/crumbspf.html

She says she works on two at a time. Since my scrap container has some strips in it, I started 8-10 and piece different things together then sewed a bunch of them to a strip that I had. After the cable guy leaves, I might go upstairs and work on that or my DD and I may go shopping.

[Frances L.]

Maybe if I bought a can of paint I would get started painting. Anyway I got about 20 more flying geese units made last night about 40 more to go.

did you make the 3-d flying geese that RT made the first season or did you make the conventional geese? I am dying to try R-T's method but have toooooo many projects going for me to start on another one. Just wondering.

[Gloria H.]

One of the women I work with is trying to get a group together to get Bonnie Hunter to the area for a class. Let me know if anyone out there would be interested in coming to the Oconomowoc, WI area and I'll let Beth know. She needs at least 25 people. Gloria

[Sandy F.]

I wanted to make my flying geese using Ricky's method but I did not have enough fabric so I am struggling with triangles. I have everything cut out and have about 30 remaining to be sewed.

[Debbie L.]

Hi Debbi, are you talking about Clamshell quilt guild show this weekend????? I'll be there. I look forward biyearly to the show. My DS is coming into town from Pa to go with me. CHeryl

Yes, Cheryl, It is the Clamshell quilt show, the 19 and 20, Saturday and Sunday. Please stop by and say hello, I will be at the Prize booth, the one with all the baskets at it, Gloria and I will be there all day :wink:

[Debbie L.]

Debbie - we like to hear when anyone had time to accomplish something. Your white whole cloth quilt is wonderful. I am back on my son's Mariner Compass. Due to a cloth shortage caused by me cutting wrong I am adding a row of flying geese around the center compass. I completed 34 units yesterday and have 55 more to go. And I did my first convergence project which still needs borders and quilting.

Thank you, it is my baby, I have three more in the works, I love designing whole cloth, problem is getting the time to stitch them on my longarm, I have to make money first. Then and only then is there tiime for the creativity. Debbie

[Debbie L.]

If it was in the middle of the room, I'd probably break a toe!! :lol: :lol:
I'm putting the last border on my convergence, then I start fusing :shock:
eileenkny

Wow eileen have you been busy :shock: Let us see it as soon as it is done!!!! Debbie

[Debbie L.]

Yes, Cheryl, It is the Clamshell quilt show, the 19 and 20, Saturday and Sunday. Please stop by and say hello, I will be at the Prize booth, the one with all the baskets at it, Gloria and I will be there all day :wink: [/quote]

Great, I'll look for the lady tied up in fabric and yarn. It will be a very exciteing girls day.

As for the Tilde, I was able to put 1 1/2 strips of small fan blocks together. They are attached to 1/4 sq triangles and sewed in a line to go around the center creating a border.. 2 1/ 2 more borders to go. Then I want to figure out some trapunto. THat will also be a first. There are a lot of first in this quilt for a first time baby for my SIL.So far it is looking pretty good. I'll post a photo of the top when finished.

[Debbie L.]

:lol: Great see ya there Cheryl. I will be at the door prize tables.
Today, we had to go over the floor plan, and make sure we had enough food for the friday night hanging party. :shock: Wow, there sure is a lotttttttt to do.
Personnaly, I have half of my ds quilt binding to be sewn on and then still hand stitch the back, but I am looking forward to tomorrow and my sewing videos to get me through that., I have to get a blood test done in the morning first. :evil:
I least I will have a thread and needle and a sewing machine at hand tomorrow!!!!!! hope everyone is sewing. debbie

[Debbie L.]

I did not get to sew since Sunday but I did drop off my sister's Christmas quilt to the quilters.... I am going to count that as quilting for my Tilde Thread. I got my copy of Marti Michelle's 1001 NINE PATCH QUILTS and I read it going down in the car ( DH driving) to a funeral. I am considering making several scrappy 9 patches cause I have tons of scrap strips from other project left over and I think it would be a fun thing to do.... but that is into the far future.

I hope to pull fabrics for a quick and easy BARGELLO project .... ( see Fons and Porter Easy Quilt last fall/ winter) I am doubling the fabrics used in their project so I can have a bigger size for my quilt. They said they did their quilt in an afternoon... I plan to work on mine all weekend... WE will see how long it takes me.

IT WILL BE DONE by her first radiation therapy.

[Debbie L.]

Hi all, well I had a struggle with the fan border. I probably did as much unsewing as sewing when I tried to match up all the points. So I guess I ended up at the base line of sewing. Atleast I didn't end up in the negative. Three sides are on with one more to go.

Cheryl

[Frances L.]

I got 6 or 7 crumb blocks done at bee today. And I have a few more that are almost done. Even though I got the minimum done for the exchange, I just kept going because they are so much fun.
Frances in Austin

[Donna N.]

I've been busy doing my "15 minutes a day" on top of working long hours. But it has been VERY productive, too. I posted three pictures of new projects, all wall hangings, to my profile. The paper-pieced miniature quilts were fun, and frustrating at times, and the as yet unquilted mariner's compass is a fabric challenge for our guild.

I have also started a wedding quilt using some beautiful (and uncharacteristically dark) fabrics. The pattern is on the cover of the September edition of The Quilter Magazine. I'm adding to the size so it will be queen size when the borders are added. Mine is 9 blocks by 10 blocks. I received the fabric on Tuesday this week and have almost finished the top. It has gone together very quickly and I hope to have the rows put together and borders on it this weekend. The wedding is in September, so I have a little time but also have several other projects to put on the long arm this summer.

Of course, all this productivity has meant that I haven't spent as much time on the forums or blogging. Seems like there's always a trade-off. <sigh>

[Donna N.]

I went to my GRANDMA FAVORITES block of the month club and worked on my block. I almost got kicked out of class for FIGHTING... I was a BAD girl tonight ...