Sandy Ellison wrote in news:C0A5F4BF.43FE% snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net:
Ohhh!! I like those DS fabrics!! Pretty... and bookmarked..... and by now you have most likely run across the other fabric but if not
Oh Evil Evil Enabler! I don't usually *do* Christmas quilts because I just don't like red and green together. But those lovely toiles! Yum. Yes. I could do something with those. Maybe put them into Star Bellies, ala Alex Anderson? Light blue and silver and white star points. Maybe a teeny inside border or piping in some zinger like yellow or gold? Where did I put my credit card ...
Anne > "Kathy Applebaum" wrote in
I won't be much help - but I would probably use that in a quilt that I have seen in the book "sweet and Simple Baby Quilts" by Mary Hickey...There are big octagons of toile in the center and then small points sort of making a star...gosh it's hard to explain - but I LOVE the quilt - I just have never found toile that I have liked enough to make it...
Roberta (in VA)
Replying to myself here - an example (though not an easy picture to see) can be found here...
Roberta (in VA)
Roberta wrote in news:hz3gg.3086$f76.1428 @dukeread06:
Oh that's sweet! Thanks!
These days I am thinking it could become one quilt every ten years for me ROFL
Um, what do you mean by quilting ideas? I meant those as quilt block ideas, so do you need block setting ideas, or quilting motifs, to go with them? How big a quilt top gets is completely up to how many blocks you are willing to make, block size, and how you use the blocks. It could just as easily be a king sized bed quilt as a table runner. All it takes to make a table runner big enough for a bed is more blocks or bigger blocks, bigger or more numerous borders, alternate plain blocks, sashing between blocks, and/or setting blocks on point. Almost any combination will work. Just let thoughts of those fabrics run around in your head for a week or so, draw some of the block ideas on paper to see what you like the best, and soon you will see the perfect quilt in your mind's eye.
By the way, a bigger applique block can be gotten by fussy cutting circles out of the plate print, cutting a blender or solid fabric in a circle an inch or two bigger than the first print, then layering them onto an even larger square background. For a bigger pieced square block you could add more than one set of fabric strips around the fussy cut squares until the block is the size you like.
Debra in VA See my quilts at
Apparently more coffee needed on my behalf. Your ideas were awesome!! I should not have put the word but in my post.... sigh... sorry!! Long long day!!! I loved your ideas! Thanks!
Jan RCTQ Coffee Diva
Debra wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
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Debra wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Debra, I just wanted to apologize again. I really loved your ideas. Things just blew up around here today and I should have just stopped typing instead of typing while maintaining chaos. Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas! And again, I'm just so sorry.
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No problem Jan! Last night I sent a reply to another news group and I hadn't even typed the first word. I thought I had typed a reply, but no. At least you typed something, even if it did confuse me. Debra in VA See my quilts at
I love that whole line. It is really neat looking and I have been wondering what to make with it too. (There is more than that shown in the link you posted.)
Pati, >
The rest of the line is lighter shades of blues in the same prints.
Pati, > >
Pati Cook wrote in news:vfrgg.1083$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net:
Ohhhh!!! Good to know!!! Thanks!!
Debra wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
:-) Thanks! There are days when I just really miss my brain.
My son readily admits he is a genius. I know I lost my brains when I had kids so if I lost my brains to a genius I must had been sort of smart? Yep, I miss my brains too. DD still close enough to call on when I need thinking done : ) Taria
Jan wrote:
Taria wrote in news:2Msgg.3344$td6.2243@trnddc02:
Does this mean I should let Jess do the thinking at age 4 1/2 or should I wait a few years
well I won't do it for you :-P
(also a Jess ;-) )
"Jessamy" wrote in news:4482dd04$0$65928$ snipped-for-privacy@news.wanadoo.nl:
ROTFL.... awhhh.. come on..... why not?? You think you have a few things on your plate already????
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