'Wot RoTT' exchange

[Renata L.]

Renata,
I've been looking at light colored batiks, also. I decided to wait on background fabric until my reels come home. I went through 3 fabrics before selecting the tree of life background. I would like to get it right the first time on the reels....at least in my dreams... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Renata L.]

Although I originally planned on using a light coloured fabric, I have recently been wondering about using a very dark bckground - the bottom of a sewing box? The colours of the reels are wonderfully all over the place, with some groups having a larger selection of some colours than others. However I won't be playing with mine until I have safely seen everyone else's safely on their way home.

Still biting my nails!

[Renata L.]

Go play with them. We won't tell anyone!!!....Doreen

[Renata L.]

I'll take any comments just to get me outside the light batik box, even if I end up returning to that... I'll keep playing with fabrics but I do admit I get pretty lost in a fabric shop... :lol: :lol: :lol: very distracting :? I briefly thought about a very dark color too with reel tops and bottoms in a light wood-looking color... but amazing, I quickly forgot about that until you mentioned it, Rosemary ops: .

I just don't want to go back to nail biting... :lol:

[Rita C.]

I have decided to wait until I have the reels in my hands before I choose my backing fabric and my spool tops/bottoms. I still can't quite decide on a design so I suppose I am in no hurry for the spools. :? I can't see straight anyway so even if I did have them it wouldn't do me any good. I told my son that my bionic eye had a tiny camera chip in it because I am a secret agent to which he responded "is that so that the government can keep an eye on all those TOP SECRET quilts you are making". :lol: I am so glad his expensive education is not going to waste!

[Maureen A.]

Rosemary, if you remember I am involved with the Loch Lomond Quilt Show http://www.lochlomondquiltshow.com which starts on Wednesday. We were hanging one of the exhibitions yesterday in a beautiful church. It was 30 of the best from Region 14. Is that your Quilters Guild Region? I wondered as there is a beautiful quilt with all the different towns & cities around York, Leeds and North East, obviously a Region Banner/Quilt I just wondered if you had been involved with any of it?

[Maureen A.]

Rosemary, if you remember I am involved with the Loch Lomond Quilt Show http://www.lochlomondquiltshow.com which starts on Wednesday. We were hanging one of the exhibitions yesterday in a beautiful church. It was 30 of the best from Region 14. Is that your Quilters Guild Region? I wondered as there is a beautiful quilt with all the different towns & cities around York, Leeds and North East, obviously a Region Banner/Quilt I just wondered if you had been involved with any of it?

ops: Actually I have not actually got around to joining the Quilters Guild of Great Britain, and so am not in whatever is my local region. I am, however, a member of the Embroiderer's Guild and EYES-East Yorkshire Embroidery Society.

Do post some pictures from the exhibition, either here or start a new thread especially for them, for the rest of us to enjoy, and have a great time!

[E.M. T.]

I'll second Rosemary...some photos would be wonderful...can't say that I've ever heard
much about quilting in Scotland..ever !

[Sharon E.]

Hey you girls, I was just browsing blogs and ran across Simplify and she has a cute reels quilt and pattern to go with it. Wanted to let you know.

[Margo C.]

Hey you girls, I was just browsing blogs and ran across Simplify and she has a cute reels quilt and pattern to go with it. Wanted to let you know.

Here's a link: http://camilleroskelley.typepad.com/...stitching.html

[Margo C.]

Hey you girls, I was just browsing blogs and ran across Simplify and she has a cute reels quilt and pattern to go with it. Wanted to let you know.

Here's a link: http://camilleroskelley.typepad.com/...stitching.html

I love the staggered layout and the fact that she has lost the points on the tops of the spools.

[Margo C.]

I love the staggered quilt! Beautiful reels.......Doreen

[Pamela O.]

Hey you girls, I was just browsing blogs and ran across Simplify and she has a cute reels quilt and pattern to go with it. Wanted to let you know.

They look like the old fashioned wooden spools.
Thanks to you and Margo for the link.

[Pamela O.]

To save Rosemary going through all the blocks.... My purple collection was called Parma Violets.... I'm sorry that you have had so much hassle with this swap.... I'm not worried... I dont think I'll run out of projects this side of 2020....

[Sandra H.]

Rosemary & Lorna,
Just wanted to check when our spool blocks will be shipping out. So excited!!! Thanks so much for all your hard work. Sandra