Happy dance

You left out pictures! When do we get to see pictures???? Spike and Giles are busy playing right now, so I'll Happy Dance without them for your finished quilt!!

In article , frood writes

I don't have a digital camera (although I'm dropping hints to Santa Claus), but my sister does so I'm hoping she'll take a pic I can use.

Then how about a pic of the quilt with the baby?

Great job! If we can't see a picture, can you tell us which block you used and which colors? How big is it? How did you bind it? Did you quilt it or tie it or use buttons or what? We need details!

-- Jo in Scotland

Whooohoooo, happy dancing for the finished quilt!!!! I dont think you forgot a thing! Diana

Yippee!!!! Can't wait to see that killer binding job! :D

Happy Dancing with you among the cow patties!

YIPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEE

dancing quietly in my chair for you, because it hurts to do it the normal way...but you know i'm proud!

YiPPEE DOO! Sparkly clog dancing time!

-- Mel Rimmer

Dancing in the moonlight for ya, Mel! And yes, you did leave something out. Pictures!

Karen, Queen of Squishies

In article , Johanna Gibson writes

I freezer paper applique'd 3 royal blue hearts onto sunny yellow backgrounds and 3 vice versa. Then I stack-n-slashed them and joined them back together to make whacky heart blocks. The blocks are 6" square. I alternated the whacky heart blocks with pale blue plain blocks, like this:

Then I added a 3" string-pieced border, mitred, made from the same fabrics as the blocks. So the quilt is 24"x30".

I made the quilt sandwich with 80/20 batting and a flannel (brushed cotton) backing in Cobalt blue. Then I machine quilted it.

I quilted around the hearts, then echoed the heart shape inside at 1/4" intervals. I quilted the same "hearts-within-hearts" pattern onto the plain blocks. I quilted the background (not the border) with a 1/2" grid of diamonds (not squares-on-point, but diamonds twice as tall as they are wide). I SITD-ed the border.

Next I buttonholed stitched around the hearts in black, because some of the outlines had become distorted during the stack-n-slash process. I "smoothed over" the steps in the outline and made them more heart- shaped. It makes them stand out better, too.

I double bound it in sunshine yellow, with mitred corners and everything. There is a pre-printed label on the back with: "MELANIE RIMMER POYNTON 2003 FOR BABY SMITH #2" on it, written in fabric marker pen.

There - now you don't need a photo!