O my gosh! I never expected to hear from so many of you, and what great ideas and help you've been! I'm saving all of these messages so that when I do attempt (soon) a large project I'll know how to attack the sandwiching process. Now, about me: I am so very happily single (for about 40 years now). I have a dau that lives next door to me separated by about 200 feet of pine trees which gives us the privacy we both want. I have a son who lives in WI, not far from Beaver Dam. There are 3 grandchildren, one in her last yr of college, and the 2 boys are 14 yrs old. I have the most wonderful dog. Tootsie (Toots) is a Bichon and I just love her so much! Why do you call pets QI??? Quilting Interrupters???? Dark chocolate is my passion along with ice cream (chocolate fudge brownie when I can find it) but I seldom have either anymore because my diabetes numbers got out of whack. But I've found I really do like the sugar-free Jello puddings in the refrig section of the grocery. The chocolate flavors are pretty good -- when you don't think about the "real" thing too much. I'm originally from the Detroit area but moved to northern Michigan (at the tip of the "baby" finger) 8 years ago when I retired. Besides this new quilting obsession, I've been doing cross-stitch for about 15 years, currently working on Van Gogh's "Starry Night" which is a chart I got from Scarlet Quince on line. Almost 2 years in the process, I'm about 6 months to finish I think. Work on it every nite in front of the TV. Also have been doing genealogy for about 30 years. Love to read: Nora Roberts, JD Robb, LuAnn Rice, Koontz, King, Maeve Binchy, others of that sort. Am the neighborhood PC guru; been PC computing since the mid-80s and Apple before that. Are you bored yet??? Like country music, hamburgers, and the beautiful blue skies and clear nites with millions of stars that we see up here in the country. This beginner quilt is 25 6-inch blocks of 4-patch, 9-patch, flying geese, log cabin, rails, etc. I'm doing it in 3 shades of blues, 3 shades of greens, and 4 shades of brown/tans. I'm very monochromatic and am scared to death of color and prints. But my very helpful quilt shop is getting me braver by the minute. Am finshed making the squares and next week our class will be starting the borders and assembly process.
When you say "clamp" it, do you mean clamp it to the edge of the table? To hold it in one place? So if you do sandwich in sections, you have to unclamp, smooth and reclamp each time? I'm going to ask our library if I can use their folding tables during the week when no one is in their meeting room. Great idea. Where do you get the "bed risers"???? That sounds like a great idea! John's idea of the frame is great and I'd like to see photos of it too. I had an idea of getting some light weight boards at the lumber store and getting my son-in-law to put hinges or something to hold them together, on the bottom to connect them and then just putting the whole thing over my smaller tabletop. Not sure this would work? It would probably need better support on the edges? Maybe a ping pong table after all? But if I do find/get a larger table, how do you shorties like me get to the center to pin???? There is no way I can crawl on top of a table! Julia, thanks for sending the link to your quilting in sections. I will study it.
Thanks so much for welcoming me to your group. I probably won't have too much to offer but I will contribute whereever I can. I'm going to have tons more questions for sure! You are sure a friendly group!
Kathy KT in MI