Once in a lifetime

Pati, I have a corkboard above the TV in the Butterfly Studio. It has the 'lil gifts' from RCTQ'ers on it and in the middle is my list of 57 quilty things I hope to make in my lifetime. Maybe you need one too...and cross off -- - no, on 2nd thought- - - put the date completed next to it when it's finished. Yeah, I like that idea instead of crossing it off. Course I can't put date started--cause so many are WIP's LOL

HTH Butterfly (who is still too stiff to do much this AM we got over an INCH of rain and it's still spitting this AM YAY! )

I would love to go on a quilting cruise!! I just can't see hanging around on a big boat with a jillion other people doing nothing but eating. I don't swim or golf so that pretty much leaves eating for shipboard activities. I DO quilt though!

The only other cruise I'd go on is an Alaskan cruise.

I wonder how many pairs of scissors they'd let me take???

I love them, too! :) I've sort of slowed down a little, but I have over

60 made at this point. My problem is that I don't want to make a bed-sized quilt from them, and I haven't decided exactly what I do want to make or how I want to set them.

For me, someday I'd like to learn to like doing hand appliqué. Oh well.

More mosaics. I need to sit down and do some drafting based on photos of tile floors. Got big paper! Got pencils and rulers! All I need is a little space-time. Roberta in D

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What size paper are you using Roberta? I plan to at least *draw* my Bristol Cathedral quilts this coming year. So, I'm just wondering what you find available and easy to use without too many joins. I haven't decided how large to make them, so I can tailor them to the paper, to some extent! . In message , Roberta Zollner writes

I have the pattern for a Calico Garden quilt. I just can't make my mind up on a background fabric. No surprise there.

And the Dear Jane quilt that I started last year is up there on my list as well.

Short term, I just got a Bunny Hill pattern today "Postcard Cuties for Spring". I'm itching to start on it, but I have a bunch of cathedral window ornaments to finish before Friday.

Cindy

Sign me up for the quilting cruise!

I'd like to make a double wedding ring (maybe my daughter will let me do this one for her some day) and a mariner's compass. I'm probably a lot closer to making the mariner's compass than the other! ;-)

I'd also like to go fabric shopping in Europe!

If you're gonna dream, dream big! Laurie

I've got your Bristol photos near the top of the to-do pile! My paper is the dressmaking tissue you can buy for tracing off garment patterns. 5 pretty big sheets to a package, comes plain and gridded. One sheet is usually big enough to draft at least a quarter of a bed-size quilt. Roberta in D

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Thanks Roberta. I would never have thought of that - but clearly the best solution. Great. I'll ferret some out. Good luck with 'Bristol'. I'm starting with 'choir' - easiest, but I'm going to put a pillar in (artistic licence!) and have it unattached at the inside edge. Never done it before, we'll see what happens! . In message , Roberta Zollner writes

What a brilliant idea, Roberta. I keep dressmaking tissue here for the always need to alter newborn patterns to a 3 to 5 pound preemie size. The kind I buy is not really tissue - in fact, it's hard to distinguish from interfacing, except of course, for the grid. Methinks Patti would enjoy this stuff. Polly

oooohhhhh lucky you. I'm hoping that DH will have some overseas jobs coming up in the next few months. That would give me some great opportunities to collect fabric. I've often thought about doing a trade with quilters in other countries, you know, trade a square for a square or something. I've been collecting shot glasses from around the world for about 12 years now and have quite an array. Vietnam is one of my international glasses.

Hugs, Mika

I think it will be tons of fun when I do finally get started. I have fabric from about 20 different states including Hawaii.

Hugs, Mika

That's how I got most of my fabrics...one on one trade. It wasn't always fabric from me tho.

Yesterday, I found out Sis's Nephew is in Korea right now :) She'll ask....here's hoping. IF I get more than 6" would you like some>>>I am NOT sure I'll even get any or how long it'll take...but' I'd share with quilters in other countries, you know, trade a square for a square or

A few YEARS ago I traded with a gal from Spain. Sent her 'pins' in trade--they came back. She had moved. Then, just before we moved into this place, I heard from her again .and I sent the pins. She was so excited because she had forgotten:) In other words, don't be surprised if you 'trade' gets returned. Just keep emailing with the person. She knew I had sent what I said--it just didn't make it in time.

Butterfly

Yessss yesss yesss thank you so much. I would love to trade for some if you get it. At the moment I don't have anyone overseas that I know of. My nephew was in Iraq but it wasn't in the capacity that he could have gotten fabric. lol. The company DH works for has a contract with a big jet engine manufacturer. We're hoping that it will entail some overseas travel. We were supposed to go to Germany this week but the job got cancelled until future notice. If we do get to go overseas fabric is a definite purchase item. I plan to bring home enough that I can share some too. Thank you.

Hugs, Mika

I will keep that in mind. Thanks for letting me know.

Hugs, Mika

My "dream" is to learn how to hand applique well enough to do justice to so many of the blocks in the DJ quilt. The few DJ blocks completed to date have all been hand-pieced. Eventually, this will be hand-quilted as well.

- dlm. in central MA

What a good question!!

i'd love to use up some of my stash....the better to buy more my dear!!

and sandwich and quilt some WIPs. After finishing my son's quilt, which i never got a picture of...darn it, i guess another large quilt. that one was all appliqued in batiks. it was an island scene, hand turned and hand quilted. it took me the better part of a year.

i'd love to go on one of those quilt bus tours or a quilting cruise. Yea...Alaska would be the best! Or take the train across Canada, then cruise to Alaska! i'd probly have to start out in NYC to Toronto.

amy in CNY