Re: Updating

Jan 17, 2012 5 Replies

Oh how very lovely, Sandy. The work is exquisite. I love the pebbling filler. Isn't Philippa Naylor a fabulous teacher! You've done her proud. . In message , Sandy writes



I've been sort of slow in finishing anything lately -- I just have too
>many things going at the same time. I'm sure no one else has that >problem, right?
>
>At any rate, I recently attended a retreat in Arizona, where I took two
>classes. The second one, from Melinda Bula, was disappointing, but at
>least the project is probably going to work out at some point. The first
>one, though, from Susan Cleveland, was *really* good. You may or may not
>know that I really like putting narrow corded piping into the binding of
>many of my quilts, and now I've learned how to put it into the body of
>the quilt, too. Of course, all of the information is available in her
>book, but it's so much more fun to learn from a good teacher in a class.
>:) Yesterday I finished the top to the little quilt I'm making from that
>class, though of course it still needs to be quilted and bound.
>
>Even better, though, is that I've also completely finished another small
>quilt. This one resulted from a class in Houston last fall and is done
>with machine trapunto. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. :) >
>I have pics of both of these on my web site
> and also
>on my blog (URL below).
>

Beautiful, Sandy. Very beautiful. Back before the earth cooled and little girls wore pretty dresses, I did quite a bit of piping/cording. I learned on the very first one that cording made with cotton sort of string looking stuff can and will shrink. IF you're ever going to want to wash your piping/cording, it's a good idea to just go ahead and preshrink. I simply put it in the big pyrex measuring cup full of water and set it in the microwave to get nearly boiling. Then I drain and dump in some ice cubes. I figure that's about as brutal a pre-shrink as it's ever going to need. Polly

or as my kids say "back when dinosaurs roamed the earth MOM?"

Howdy! How big do they make pyrex measuring cups? I could sure use some shrinking. The 4-cup I have isn't going to be any help at all, shrinking what needs to be shrinked...shrunken... .

Hey, Sandy, that's gorgeous!

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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:24:25 -0600, Sandy E wrote (in article ):

You might have to search for it, but I think I've seen an 8 cup one.

Maureen

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