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[Lois B.]

Rita, Your quilt is lovely. Even though you had a cool, cloudy and very damp summer you managed to get lots of warmth and sunshine into that quilt.

[wendy w.]

You're right Lois it's beautiful

[Rita C.]

Thanks ladies. Lois we are having our summer now, beautiful sunny skies for the past week and lovely temperature too 20ºC+. I had thought I would put a green border on the quilt - it's just as well I didn't have enough fabric to do it.

[Nancy R.]

Limbania - Your blocks look perfect! I love the centers!

Rita - Wow!! Your quilt is so beautiful! I love the colors. They are so pretty and soothing. Can't wait to see the quilting!!

Nancy

[Betty J.]

Rita, your quilt is fabulous! You all are making it hard to keep up, and I'm not going to finish my quilt until after the Philly show next week, but I did finish my all scrap tote bag (so I have something to haul my loot back home with. :lol: :lol: :lol: ) Here's one view of it with the extender top tucked in:

And here is the other side with the extender pulled up


I got the idea from Nancy Zieman's "Innovative Bags and Totes". I'm going to have to make my DIL one after I get back.

[Nancy R.]

BJ - Love your bag! The colors are wonderful. I love making bags, but have so many other projects that I haven't made one for a while. I hope you'll share your loot with us, too!

Nancy

[Rita C.]

Thanks Nancy and BJ. I really don't know what to do for the quilting but I think the borders are saying 'feathers' to me. Scary. :shock: I should probably do that Cindy Needham class on craftsy.com first though.

BJ your tote bag is fabulous. I love the extendible top - you will need that extension I am sure. :lol:

[Coni P.]

Annis and Rita ,Such beautiful colors and quilts.Looking forward to seeing your wonderful quilting too. BJ I hope you have a great time at the show and stuff that beautiful bag full of goodies.

[Norma H.]

You are all creating amazing things. It's hard to catch up with everything. I appreciate that you are all sharing

[Norma H.]

Limbania - great stars, and wonderful tip about using those rulers, I have the Easy angle ruler, but not the Companion angle ruler - Hey Marianne, between us we should be ok, and we are both in the same country! 8)

Rita - a great looking quilt top, and the log cabins are great in the outer corners

BJ - love your new bag, and the extension idea is a good one :wink: Just hope you can pick it up once it is filled with goodies....

I was working on my sashing yesterday for the mini's in the centre - aagggh! there is no ease available at that size, what so ever.... I have managed to cut all my green border(s) pieces, without any major problems - phew, but think that I will just run short of the white background fabric - fortunately I know that I will be able to get more from Empress Mills, but it is really frustrating to not be able to get all the pieces cut & ready to stitch. :roll:

Back at school this week and the sun has been splitting the trees since it opened...

[Norma H.]

Rita, your quilt is lovely. Love the soothing, calming color of your fabrics and the border adds a bit of "crispness" to it like a sunrise on a fall morning.

BJ, that's a great bag! Have fun filling it up and then share what you got in it :wink:

Yeah Rosmary! Not fun to run out of fabric but, at least you can get more of it

[Norma H.]

Thanks Nancy and BJ. I really don't know what to do for the quilting but I think the borders are saying 'feathers' to me. Scary. :shock: I should probably do that Cindy Needham class on craftsy.com first though. :lol:

Rita and every body else, if you've never signed up for a class at the craftsy website, today they're offering a free class here http://www.craftsy.com/clp/free-class-day-2012 there are a couple of quilting classes : Art Quits 101, Scrap Quilting with Pepper Cory and some others.

[Norma H.]

Limbania, I went to check out the site and it says the class is free but when I tried to sign up for it it said it was $19.99. Did you try to sign up for one of them, and if you did, were you successful?

[E.M. T.]

Same problem here !

[E.M. T.]

Big Bernie is home from the "hospital" Had a tune -up , comp. up-date and a new bobbin sensor !
Hope that takes care of her bad conduct !! Haven't had time to sew, tho as garden is perking along.
Canning green beans and tomatoes and trying to figure out how many new ways to fix zuchinni ! :lol: :lol: :lol:
takes a lot of time !
Here's the sashing laid out and a possible candidate for a border...that is red not orange ! Will be very
narrow. Maybe sewing tomarrow .