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[Lorna B.]

Lois, Your flower quilt is so pretty. I made one for my MIL and they are fun to do. I surely never thought to add the leaves though. I love it.

Lorna

[Charae H.]

Lois, your GFG quilt is beautiful! I'm not really sure what a butterfly seam is, but you got my attention with both the name (shudder) and the quantity!! Good for you for sticking to it!

[Lois B.]

Rita, Gyleen said it's not worth trying to do the hexagons by machine unless they were 2 1/2 - 3" across. The idea for the layout came from Gyleen as well. I posted a possible layout in her group on facebook and she made this suggestion. She posted a photo of an old quilt top that she had purchased in an antique store. The idea was not mine, but I liked it to. I will do the border in the green too. I am eager to quilt it. I actually have ideas about what I want to do with the quilt. Same goes for the sampler quilt. I am finding I am not as stumped by "quilt as desired" anymore. All I need is more hours in the day to get things done. Thanks for all the compliments.

[Lois B.]

Lois, your GFG quilt is beautiful! I'm not really sure what a butterfly seam is, but you got my attention with both the name (shudder) and the quantity!! Good for you for sticking to it!

There will be a few more of those seams before I am done. I sewed one entire row with the pattern being one hexagon off. Rip-it. Rip-it. Rip-it. It never ends!

[Renata L.]

Nooooooo!!!! Say it's not soooooooo, Lois! That hurts! I even feel it... :cry:

[Renata L.]

It really is a beautiful GFG quilt top Lois! So sorry you have to "unsew" that row :cry: Keep the good work, you're doing great! I'm collecting polka dot fabrics for a hexies quilt, not sure it'll be a GFG or some other design yet. But I think I'll hand stitch and have it as a "on the go" project.

[Renata L.]

Lois, your GFG quilt is beautiful! I'm not really sure what a butterfly seam is, but you got my attention with both the name (shudder) and the quantity!! Good for you for sticking to it!

There will be a few more of those seams before I am done. I sewed one entire row with the pattern being one hexagon off. Rip-it. Rip-it. Rip-it. It never ends!

Ouch! - all I can suggest is that you don't have perfect tension in your machine, because then it is sooo much easier to frog :wink:

[Marianne G.]

First of all: Thank you for all the suggestions on how to make my dining room table suitable as a cutting table. I will be on the look-out for bricks, platform shoes, bed-risers etc. I have also found a perfect excuse for acquiring more patchwork and quilting books now. Thank you so much :P

Lois, your GFG quilt is fabulous. I had no idea it was possible to do this pattern by machine unless you cut the hexagons in half. So sorry you had to frog stitch a whole row! Can't wait to see how you quilt this one and to see your second take on the sampler quilt. Thank you for sharing.

Have a lovely week-end everyone

Marianne

[Marianne G.]

I won't be about quite so much for the next week or so - I will be in semi-exile from my sewing room & the computer (although I will still be able to access via my ifad - hopefully) This is because we have a guest arriving this afternoon, and the room has to change identities. It is amazing what you can find when you have to tidy up - like a stack of various blue fabrics all ready and starched, and I cannot for the life of me remember why :roll: :lol:

I suspect that I will try and get on with some thimble base making, since I don't need a machine for that :wink:

[Lotti D.]

if you can't think what to do with all that fabulous blue.... it would fit perfectly into my blue project... gathering all the blues i can get my hands on

[Rita C.]

Enjoy your guest/s - hope there are no stray needles and pins lying around :!: By the way, what's an iFad? Is it similar to a diddle-y-iPod? (That's a musical device that only plays traditional Irish music.) :lol:

[Renata L.]

Enjoy your house guest, Rosemary as well as your newfound goodies as you repurposed your sewing room! :lol:

[Lois B.]

It must be so for everyone who quilts. When you have to clean-up and reorder the sewing room you always find treasures you didn't know you had. The other thing about having guests is that often I get things done to improve the asthetics of my home that I have been wanting to do but have been pushing off.

Rosemary, Unfortunately, the tension on my machine is quite good. On the other hand, over the years I have become quite skilled and efficient in frog stitch techniques.

[Renata L.]

Okay, Lois... reading your last two posts, all I could think of was poor little froggie, what did you do to it? The weather is beautiful here in DC, my window is open and I can hear rib-it, rip-it outside...

[Renata L.]

Enjoy your guest/s - hope there are no stray needles and pins lying around :!: By the way, what's an iFad? Is it similar to a diddle-y-iPod? (That's a musical device that only plays traditional Irish music.) :lol:

So do I on the pins & needles front :shock: I call it my ifad, because it is much cheaper, and I desperately wanted a tablet computer to play with, but it is sloooow and easily loses it's connection :roll:

I must admit that it is nice having it all tidied up - just needs a hoover - and being able to see my first finished quilt in it's entireity for a change :wink: