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I noticed today there is only one post. So here is my work. Fun little blocks.
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Please inform if there are any instructions for the outer border . It uses the template B from the Centre block, but what...
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Your color choices are great, and your quilting is beautifully done.
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Beautiful work Helen!
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This is absolutely beautiful! Congrats on a wonderful job!
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Finished quilting yesterday! This was my first time to use spray baste. I sprayed each layer outside and then assembled...
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So Sorry! I accidentally deleted my last post trying to edit and re-add a smaller photo so it would show up, which also...
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Hi Barbara, I’m just wondering if the running stitch around the appliqué flowers stitched prior to quilting or is it...
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I think because 80% of the pattern was revealed in the first 4 months these last months feel like they are very slow. Agreed...
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Photo is too big. There is a post at the top of the 2024 BOM forum with help for posting photos
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I'm in the process of cleaning and reorganizing my sewing/quilting room as I'm writing this reply. It took me forever to get started, too, because I was overwhelmed at the thought of it. So, I just decided to do a little each day, by breaking the job up into small tasks. However, once I started, I got on a roll and didn't want to stop. Here's what I learned:
1. No plastic bags!!!!
2. Keep all of your project supplies for each planned or incomplete project together in one basket or fabric storage container until completed--you can find all size fabric containers for $1 at the Everything's a Dollar store (a.k.a. Deals).
3. Store your new or project leftover fabrics in your stash by color or size or theme (e.g. batiks, novelty, stripes, juvenile, etc.)--if necessary, cut it up by yardage, fat quarters, jelly roll strips, scraps, selvedges, etc.
4. Store all UFO quilt tops together and all orphan/exchange blocks together, so you can find them easily when you need to create a quilt quickly.
5. File, using a Pendaflex or similar file with labeled manila folders, those loose printed patterns, workshop notes, correspondence, catalogs, etc.
6. Use a "graph paper" notebook for jotting down project notes, design ideas, etc.
7. Use large bins for storing battings, fusibles, stabilizers, treated fabrics, etc.
8. Where possible, use vertical storage with peg boards, cork boards, thread holders, etc. for storing small items.
I sure hope some of this helps.
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Great ideas Nancy!
Because I have moved around a lot, I use large 3 ring binders to keep my notes, patterns, and articles or ideas I rip out of older quilting magazines. This has saved me from having an extra piece of furniture such as a filing cabinet in my studio.
Last year I reorganized my studio = refolded fabric, got rid of old quilt books, sorted etc. and also got rid of plastic bags.
The whole process plus the spring cleaning took me about 2 entire weekends and I enjoyed it because of the reminder of what great items I have to use after quilting for over 20 years.
cheers
Jeanine
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When organising 'stuff' into different categories and tidying up, my mother told me do not have a 'miscellaneous' pile, it should either have a definite purpose or not. If you have a miscellaneous pile you never get rid of anything because 'it could come in handy some day' (usually a week after you have chucked it :wink: :lol: )
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Because I move twice a year - from the motorhome to the mobile in the fall and then back again to the motorhome for the summer - I have three rolling carts with drawers that stay the same all the time. I also have three or four boxes of large scraps and fabric for misc. projects that stay packed all the time. I pull them out, use what I want and put them back. My stash consists primarily of hand dyes and batiks and I take a limited amount of them each summer. (I can always check out the quilt shops on our route if I need something I do not have with me!!!!!!!) - or order more hand dyes if needed (and I "need" a lot) Otherwise I create from my stash. I have two wine carriers - cardboard and free at the local grocery or wine store - that I put my rolls of fusible, rolls of wash away stabilizer, spray bottles etc that go back and forth in each move. I have my thread in a thread carrier that I removed the spool spindles from so it would hold more thread and a hardware store "thingy container" that has three large and two small boxes that are perfect size for thread spools. I also have some other "thingy containers" -you know the screws and nails and bolts etc. that dh needs all the time - that I keep buttons and embellishments in. They easily fit in drawers in the motor home and on shelves in the "studio" I quit calling it a sewing room when I updated and reorganized it last fall (see my member blog for pictures when it was really clean). I keep my patterns and quilt books in magazine holders - plastic from the office supply store - because they can easily be transfered back and forth. Now it is not a three week clean up process each fall and a scramble to load the motorhome in the spring so dh and I are both "happy campers" Hugs and love from Ann (now in Southern Illinois on the way to Chicago to see DD and DGD)
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When I was studying to become a lab tech. we were told--handle things only once. So, if I am making a pile of like things to then be put away--I am making more work because I am having to touch each thing at least twice. Does that make sense. Of course, I know that it hard when you are petting your fabric.
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My mother must have had similar training - she tells me 'don't put it down, put it away!'
And after last night's emergency skirt & waistcoat making for Izzy I sure have a deal to put away :roll: , especially as I want to get on & make a dress for myself - which I would be doing if I wasn't frittering my time away on here :lol:
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I noticed today there is only one post. So here is my work. Fun little blocks.
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Please inform if there are any instructions for the outer border . It uses the template B from the Centre block, but what...
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Your color choices are great, and your quilting is beautifully done.
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Beautiful work Helen!
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This is absolutely beautiful! Congrats on a wonderful job!
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Finished quilting yesterday! This was my first time to use spray baste. I sprayed each layer outside and then assembled...
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So Sorry! I accidentally deleted my last post trying to edit and re-add a smaller photo so it would show up, which also...
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Hi Barbara, I’m just wondering if the running stitch around the appliqué flowers stitched prior to quilting or is it...
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I think because 80% of the pattern was revealed in the first 4 months these last months feel like they are very slow. Agreed...
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Done for now
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Photo is too big. There is a post at the top of the 2024 BOM forum with help for posting photos
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I tried to attach a picture under show your progress and it showed that I attached it but didn’t show up in my post only...
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I finished my top by looking at the photo of the quilt and since there are no quilt police it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t...
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