TILDE TOPIC - THREAD revisited

[Lorna B.]

Hi Maggie. We have oats, wheat and barley but with the amount of rain we have been having most summers a lot of it has been downgraded to animal fodder and the price of bread is quite high. Opposite us we had oilseed rape and linseed, mainly grown now for bio oil. If you ever come to England, come in May and June! We turn the most vivid yellow you can think of with the oil seed rape flower and the odd dotted field of blue linseed. It really is quite bright! All the fields are striped patchwork now. Crops still waiting, crops that have come off and some ploughed and here that means anything from brown loam to glistening white chalk!!

I did my first QU block last night and I also joined another class. :roll: That one starts Thursday. Tomorrow I have the carpet fitters in, it's my Guild meet AND OH's birthday. Today I have to clear my sewing room. But first I have my back manipulation with my friend, the wonderful Fiona, who always puts everything right that I have put wrong crouching over the sewing machine or in the garden!

[Lorna B.]

Thanks, Amo! As a farmer's daughter, I am always looking to see what is being grown. When I get to England (and I assure you that it is on my list of places to get to) I will look you up!

Maggie

[Lorna B.]

I finished my August BOM Border Stars and being posted on Show and Tell BOM.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

[Judy M.]

I got the binding sewn on a small handquilted wholecloth quilt--just a few more stitches to go! Another UFO conquered!!! Judy in Torrance

[Judy M.]

A couple of finishing there! Well done both.

I have a beginning!! 8)

Thanks to the hugest generosity of a member of the forum, I am the proud owner of a set of Alex's Whisperings!!! I can't tell you how grateful I am!! They are lovely and delicious in colour and pattern and I just want to put them into something scrummy! I also want to just admire them for a bit but that gives me time to think of something perfect to use them in.

This forum is great and I am eternally grateful to you, M, for thinking of me.

[Judy M.]

Glad you got the fabric! And glad your daughter is better!

Maggie

[Judy M.]

Just got a pattern to make a quilt for my brother who is going to have surgery to remove a mass on his kidney. As big sister, I am still conditioned to take care of my little brother, and as I will not be there when he is recovering I am making him this, so he knows that I am always there for him, even when physically I am not.
Thanks to LadyRags, I bought the Mad for Plaid and the Argyle patterns from Humblebee Quilt Works and he chose the Mad for Plaid. Now I need to shop for material (o, darn :lol: ) he wants batiks (another o, darn!) grey and burgandy. Grey is relatively easy to find locally, but there just aren't that many burgandy batiks, even on the web. Looks like a road trip (o, hardship :lol: )
Anyway, this is one of the projects I am currently working on.

Jean in Windsor, ON

[Judy M.]

Just spent yesterday making 3 humming birds for the memory quilts, still have one more to make. Posted pic in profile.

But last bird will have to wait, time to get last minute things done for first time college student leaving this week with orca quilt in hand.

[Lorna B.]

Yesterday I worked with my 9 yr old grandson and helped him make a small quilt for his teddy bear. I did the cutting and the binding and he did the sewing and machine quilting. He made a darling little 9 patch. Lots of fun and memories made.

Today I worked on replacing a backing to a quilt and now I am hand tying it together.

[Lorna B.]

First time I've had time to quilt in a week or so. Working on BOM stars trying to catch up. Sandi in FL

[Lorna B.]

Had a workshop in WONDERFUL ONE FABRIC QUILTS with the books author KAY NICHOLS. The workshop was great. I really like the technique and I think my quilt top is beautiful.

Poor Kay did not know what to do with me however since I made the quilt with two colorways of the same fabric. My M-I-L picked out the fabric she wanted for her bedspread ( the fabric was from my stash )and I was only able to get 3 yards of each when I had originally bought the fabric ...not enough to make the quilt in the way Kay described in her book. I ended up improvising but it came out grand. I am so pleased and the technique was so easy and versatile... I hope to make more of these type quilts as soon as I finish this one. I learned a lot in the workshop.

She also showed us how to do a two color binding where the backing side matches the backing fabric and the front binding matches the front fabric. I also learned how to do a knife edge finish using the ladder stitch. I have always wanted to see that method of finishing.

Sewing for the pattern was easy too. I will have the top put together in one session of sewing....

[Lorna B.]

Today I finished a QU mini quit homework piece and managed to do quite a few blocks on a quilt top I'm working on and try to figure the borders, well at least start planting ideas.

I have guild sewing tomorrow so will have to find some handwork to take! :shock:

[Lorna B.]

I am working on a landscape based on a photo taken in Florida of the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse. The fabric is all laid down. Now need to add some thread painting, and I think a palm tree, and will be ready for quilting.

Maggie in E. Central Illinois

[Lorna B.]

I have two quilt tops just about finished now, one from me playing and the other from QU and so I have finally decided to make up the Grace frame!! What else to do on a Bank Holiday weekend when the rest of England is blocking up the roads! :roll:

I've been at it 2 hours already and I'm quite enjoying myself. Had a giggle at the 1/4" x 30mm markings etc but over here we're also used to buying things like 3 meters of 2" x 4" wood. :wink: Ahhh metrication. As a school child of the '70's I do confuse myself and often have to ask OH who is an engineer (metric) but a good few years older than me (Imperial) and knows how to spilt them and their value off the top of his head!

Even buying fabric for borders yesterday was a nightmare. I was asking in Imperial and they were working in metric. I was becoming very hot under the collar and confused and ended up buying far more than I needed just to be on the safe side. Lesson learned: - always go prepared with all measurements fully worked out in both sizes!

[Lorna B.]

Well, Kyle has been delivered to school in Machias Maine, and Danny is working his way up the coast.

That means I can now work on the birds. So far I have 1 1/2 sewn on with 3 more to go. So taking a quick break to check my favorite site to see what everyone has been up to these past few days. Now I am off to the sewing room and turn on the IPod. The pitter pattering of rain should get these tops done.