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That will be beautiful. I love fairy frosts. I'm working with some now. Gen

Thanks, Cindy! I never thought to pin the binding from behind like your friend has done. What a clever idea! I shall use this method on my next quilt and hope it looks as nice as her binding.

Love her quilt and your fabric choices sound just plain yummy. Best of luck with A Big Quilt! ;-)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Wishing heaps and more of luccccckkkkkkkk! Good for you Cindy. Everybody needs to climb out of their comfortable rut and try something totally foreign to their style at least now and then. A word of warning about the Fairy Frosts. Some of them behave much like velvet or corduroy and will slightly change colors on you if you turn them. May matter, may not but aren't they just very specially pretty? Polly

Wow, Cindy, I love the Fairy Frosts. And from your friend's blog it looks like she's amazingly talented. You must take photos through the process and keep us posted. I can't wait to see what you make.

Sunny and I also love making little things

Cool quilt - I can't wait to see it all done in Fairy Frosts (which I love, by the way). Did you use the same colors that Judy has in her quilt or did you go with something different? One word of warning: You may be so impressed with yourself after completing a full-sized quilt that you'll never want to go back to miniatures!

I don't know, Louise! I like to DIED when I wrote that check!

My quilts usually cost about $5.

Cindy

Just can't do it,Roberta. I'm a Virgo. It has to be straight and orderly.

Cindy >it may have more to do with OCD than astrology. Plus I was born 2 months early and I never knew if that made any difference with my birth sign.

Thank you, Sunny! She is very talented, although she can't see it. She says anyone can do what she does and she MEANS that. She must have had a good time this week too, because she asked me to go to Indianapolis with her in April, She's teaching and they want her to teach that quilt!

Cindy

That's good to know, Polly, thanks. I new you use those Frosts. And this is way out my comfort zone for sure.

My daughter wants a quilt and I think she will like this one.

Cindy

Thanks for the encouragement, Leslie!

Judy does a great job. She's had one book published, and her second will come out in February, I think. Up until just a few months ago, she always did her bindings by hand. When she wrote her first book, AQS asked for the cover quilt and then, about 3 months later, they asked for the rest of the quilts.

This time, they called and asked for the quilt and she said, "which one" and they said "All of them". I think there were 16 quilts to go into the book. She had the cover quilt quilted and partially bound, several of the quilts were quilted, all but 1 of the tops were done. And they needed them in, like 2 - 3 weeks.

She learned to machine bind those quilts real quick. They look so good, it barely shows from the back, let alone the front.

Speaking of bindings, I bought this little gadget that Martelli makes that puts these little clips on your quilt to hold it down to bind. If I don't lose it in the meantime, I'd like to try it on my next quilt.

Cindy

I like them too, Gen. I told Judy if I had to go "bright", at least give me some sparkle!

Cindy

AHA! I'm also Virgo. Now I get it and why you and I 'click' so often! Obviously, you were pre-determined to be a Virgo hence had to come early to 'make the cut'. LOL

It's a burden..... ;-)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Yeah, Les, but somebody's got to do it, right?

Cindy

Good luck Cindy! That quilt is absolutely gorgeous!

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

Thank you, Michelle! I can't wait. She's sending me the pattern tomorrow, (by owl, I guess) she finished writing it today. She absolutely forbade me from starting until she tests the pattern by making another quilt. I hesitated to say it, but why the heck can't she test her pattern on MY fabric and then just give it to me! Save me a heck of a lot of aggravation and what does she need another one for?

Cindy

did you suggest that to her? j.

"teleflora" wrote... Thank you, Michelle! I can't wait. She's sending me the pattern tomorrow, (by owl, I guess) she finished writing it today. She absolutely forbade me from starting until she tests the pattern by making another quilt. I hesitated to say it, but why the heck can't she test her pattern on MY fabric and then just give it to me! Save me a heck of a lot of aggravation and what does she need another one for?

Cindy

I like way you think. Gen

LOL! I do believe that is the most over the top BEG I've ever heard. :-) What colors are you going to use?

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada