Hi Diane. Welcome to our group. Sounds like you are a pro at making quilts. I hope you will share your advice with us often. Sounds like you and I share the same sewing delimma. No room of our own. I now put my sm on a small tv table beside my computer table, in my livingroom. I'm tired by the time I have everything set up to sew. My hubby hates the mess I make. I told him to either 'live with it' or get us a bigger place. Any kind of chocolate will do fine. When can I expect it? LOL
Susanne
I've been lurking for awhile, and it's time to come out of hiding, and
> introduce myself.
> I've been sewing all my life - started with making my own rag doll at age 7
> (?), and progressed to doll clothes. Took HomeEc back in junior high, and
> learned how to make a few disasters. (Why on earth would a 12 year old make a
> "cocktail dress", as they were called back then?)
> In the summer between my junior and senior year of high school, I made so many
> dresses, that I went the entire month of September without wearing the same
> thing twice. It was a summer sewing frenzy.
> After that, just puttered - see post about being lonely.
> When I was pregnant with my boychild, and had to do hospitalized bedrest, my
> cousin, my quilting "pusher", came to the hospital with a little file box of
> needle, thread, and a bunch of 9 patch squares and told me to get busy. I did
> eventually finish that quilt, new baby and all. I've often wanted to enter it
> into Ami Simm's Ugly Quilt Contest. Some of it is hand stitched with huge
> stitches, some sewn, didn't know the ins and outs of batting, so left it out,
> and then stuck a flannel sheet on the back. Machine sewed a few rows here and
> there to hold it all together.
> Finally, went took quilting lessons at a local shop, and there went the rest of
> any spendable money I have had since! So, I've been quilting for 19 and a half
> years.
> Have made loads of quilts.
> Right now I am working on three - all the same pattern, on purpose. One is a
> wedding quilt made in the fall colors of the mountains, with burnt orange
> sashings, and the blocks have red, orange, purple, maroon, green, gray, brown,
> gold, etc. I love this quilt, so decided to make one for my self with basically
> the same colors, but totally different. Just started it on Monday. I had also
> started this same quilt in blues/pinks/purples - softy colors, with beige leafy
> triangle corners, and a very old fashioned looking print for the sashings and
> borders. I had been going to make my daughter a "picnic" quilt, using all food
> fabrics and checks, but she decided she really likes the blue/pink/purple one,
> so I'll finish it for her. For that one the blocks are all sewn - just needs
> sashings, borders, etc.
> Yep - have a definite stash! Usually I buy at TSWALTH, but sometimes get the
> privilege of going to two really nice quilt shops, where I drool.
> What makes me interesting? I sew all my quilts on a 1902 Queen treadle, which
> I wouldn't trade for any new machine. She's a great old gal!
> I, too, have lots of "findings". Also have lots of UFO's, but if they've been
> hanging around too long, I've given in an tied them.
> My favorite part of quilting? Buying fabric, of course, then putting colors
> together, and designs together, and piecing. Actually, my really favorite part
> is putting the binding on, and sleeping under that quilt that night. >
> My WORST part of quilting? No sewing room! (whine, boo, hiss) I have to sew
> in the living room, but with using the treadle, it's always up and ready. My
> stash overfloweth the bedroom bookcase that my hubby built for it, and all my
> sewing stuff just falls out of the closet at me, is piled on the dresser, and
> is a regular mess. We are hoping to move in a few years, and a sewing room is
> on the "have to have" list. I long to decorate one with all my little doodads,
> and to actually have a table to use that doesn't have to be cleared off because
> my family wants to eat 3 meals a day!
>
> As far as chocolate, will some frozen mini-Mounds bars do?
>
> Diane