Roll Call: What did you do "quilty" today?

Not a thing. I hope to do something on my days off this week other than clean and pack.

double wedding ring? If so -- how are you doing it? Paper pieced? template? I'm on the end stretch of my second (and probably last ever DWR)! I used the acrylic templates

does it just kill you how DH's can drop pounds so much easier than we can? My DH is the same way. When he decides to drop a few... within a few weeks he's down 20+! Makes me want to kill him!!!! (or at least buy him candy and cooking lots of pasta for him!)

Kate in MI

Good Luck on your exam! Long ago (in a previous lifetime) I did pretty good with math... Not sure that part of my brain still functions....

I'm sure you'll do great!

Kate in MI

Uhm, I read the news group and I moved a piece of fabric from the dryer top to the table; does that count?

I need to do some pressing and cutting for a Steelers quilt for my daughter; I am using Jessamy's 4th of July mystery quilt pattern for this one. I liked my red/white/blue one so much, I thought I would try it in other colors.

Elizabeth in Spring, Texas

Nothing, but I did unpack boxes for my office. After the garage, my sewing room (the BOX ROOM) is next. However, I'm currently uninspired sewing-wise, so I'll wait for the muse to strike. Or the pink squares I ordered to arrive, which ever comes first. Have to find the iron. Have to find the ironing board. Have to find the sewing machine. Have to ..... :>

joan

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I finished making 9 paper pieced blocks. Last April I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. The pattern is "Courthouse Steps". Now I just have to put them together and finish the 12" X 12" project. I had plenty of time to sew as DH and all three sons were at the Penn State football game....they won't be happy when they return home today!

Alice in PA

Not only that, but my secret sister sent me some chocolate a while back. I hid it knowing there would be a time when I would REALLY want it. That time was yesterday. Went to get it - it was gone. He found it and ate it!

L>does it just kill you how DH's can drop pounds so much easier than we can? My

DH is the same way.

want to kill him!!!!

Whoops, just remembered, I put a piece of backing in the washer yesterday to pre-shrink and forgot all about it.

L>Uhm, I read the news group and I moved a piece of fabric from the dryer top

It's been fun reading what everyone is working on!

I bought a pattern "Fat Quarter Quilting: Four Fabric Quilts" Thre are 9 small (16"x20") quilt designs.

I finished up the top piecing yesterday and stuck it in the "Top Finished, May Never Look At It Again" drawer.

Either I misread the instructions or they were plum wrong, but I used Thangles to make the squares for the outer border and they were too big. After making 68 of them and putting them together, I found myself chopping out squares and cutting down the inside border to make it come out even.

You can see the patterns here:

They are really cute, but that makes me so MAD.

Cindy

They're so nice, Cheryl! I think I'd be tempted to use the back side of them, since those cats are so cute.

That elephant still amazes me -- a first appliqué project isn't allowed to be that good! ;) But the cows are just adorable. :)

Not much. With the weather the way it was, I was more nervous about possible flooding and about unplugging things than about sitting quietly to do some hand piecing (the lamp was unplugged, anyway ). However, I did take advantage of my Mac laptop's battery to work a little on an EQ5 class from QU. :) Later, I also sorted some fabrics to take to class in Houston. Today I need to get things organized for a class I'm taking at the LQS on Friday -- it's with Joanie Zeier Poole and is on how to design quilting patterns for a quilt. I really need that! :)

cool! I can't wait to see the result of this version :-D

akk how horrid! I hate that happening!

I went to PIQF (Pacific International Quilt Festival) in Santa Clara, CA. I didn't sew anything but I did drop a few $$ for the future! I also test drove a Gammill and a Millennium.........actually liked the Gammill better when I was sure I was going to like the Millennium. By the time my new house gets built, I will have decided!

It was a wonderful show!!!! If anyone here was able to attend AND if you took a photo of the Best of Show quilt, can you post it? I didn't take a picture but it was absolutely STUNNING!

That was my day.......great fun! Laurie G. in CA

I am doing something...lmao. I am testing a pattern right now. I am doing a Christmas style table runner as my test pattern. The book I am using I saw it on one of the PBS Quilt Shows last Spring. "Rings That Bind" by Cheryl Phillips and Linda Pysto. It's suppose to be simple to do and you do the backing as you go...... So... that is what I am trying. I have the acrylic templates and that helps. The other patterns I have here are: Ominigrid: Double Wedding Ring by Sharlene Jorgenson and then the other is in a book called Egg Money. I found that at my local quilt shop.

The wedding rings I want to do is one for my son and his future wife. I am going to use green prints and large gold type flowers. All from Hoffman fabrics. My local quilt shop helped me pick out the fabrics for it.

So right now I am in the learning process and using material I won't cry over if I ruin it... lol

Am I nuts or what? 3 different patterns and not sure what I am doing!

Barbara in Houston (Spring Branch)

I've been busy hand quilting. I've been working on it so long, I've forgotten the name of the quilt! It's flannel and a dream to quilt but I only work on it when I've nothing else to do. It's in the final stages and I decided to finish the job.

I requested permission to make another Guicciardini quilt. :)

I have commenced planning stages, even without receiving permission yet. The person for whom I made the first Guicciardini quilt just won Crown Tourney again, so his lady will become a duchess when they step down, so I'd like to make them matching quilts for the occasion. I may make her a simpler version anyway.

What am I talking about?

-georg putting off making the new Elizabethan garb yet again.

Barbara, I wish you the best of luck with this! I did something similar years ago. I really wanted to make a Lone Star quilt, but I had no idea how to do it and no resources (no internet for me at that time) locally. I bought several books and ended up with just what I wanted! It's this one: . It was a real adventure, though; first I had to decide -- like you -- which technique to use (I finally settled on the one by Eleanor Burns, though I seem to recall modifying it a bit), and then I herniated a disk in my back and the doctor wouldn't let me hand quilt for quite a while. But it's finished, and I still love it. :)