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Thanks Morag. I think this one will be a work in progress for a while. I'll just keep the strips and fabrics together and make blocks as I feel inspired. It is a neat color combination.

I'm not sure how many blocks I'll make Pat. I'll certainly need at least 16 to see the other rings start to intertwine. I'd also like to use up the fabrics I've collected....and that will make a lot more blocks! I think the Sharon Schamber block will look really nice when quilted. I'm feeling the urge to get it done, so maybe I'll tackle it shortly.

I do have it tilted forward a bit. And that is better than using it with the seat level. Maybe I need one that is continually adjusting! That would keep me on my toes!

Your work is just superb! I have enjoyed looking at them all!

Howdy!

Wheeeee! You busy girl, you; way to go!

I really like your version of the Turning 20, w/ all the blending fabrics.

R/Sandy

I think the "Turning Twenty Again" pattern was just made for those beautiful patterned fabrics. I saw some on someone's website and thought....YES! That's what I'll use all those Amy Butler fabrics I've been hoarding for. And it was just right. The one I saw online was a collection of Kaffe Fasset fabrics in mostly reds and pinks. Stunning.

You do such a great job with the curves! I have a couple of those Creative Curves rulers but haven't tried them yet. Got any tips? I think I met the lady in a vendor booth at the Santa Clara (Pacific International?) quilt show a couple of years ago.

No tips really. I had to mark the half circle pieces at the center point at the top so I would know where the corner piece was supposed to end. The rulers certainly make the cutting out easier.

Except for WHIRLPOOL where curves and flowing lines are definitely required. :>

joan

Thanks Joan! :-) Wanna come mark it for me? We could talk about the great 311 summer tour! DS is so excited! He might have a couple opportunities to see them ....for the umteenth time!

Put on some good music and go with the flow!

joan :>

p.s Big summer tour for 311. They'll be here in Omaha on July 1st. vbg BTW, 311 recorded a song for SURF'S UP, a new animated film about surfing penguins. The song is a cover, called Reggae's Got Soul. Cute song and sounds like a cute movie.

Does that mean you'll have houseguests and fixing a big dinner?? Cool news about the movie piece! I'll have to keep an eye (ear) out for it.

I'm on the program committee for our guild and she's one of the speakers at the top of our wish list! I hope we can get her within the next year or two. I've heard really good things about her. Did you find you learned something at the lecture? That's one of my biggest gripes with speakers. It seems they only have a lenthy show and tell and keep everything else for a workshop. I believe some of their tips and tricks could be explained at a lecture fairly easily and the workshops are for in depth hands on practice with the teacher. I have her first piping book, but I have to admit I haven't tried the technique. Hummmm, I wonder why not? The directions are quite clear....I'll have to put that on my "to do" list. If I can find it.

Susan is a lot of fun; I'm sure you'll enjoy her. Her lecture last week was not one of the ones she has listed on her website; I suspect she may have been trying out a new one on us. She talked mainly about using piping in curves, since that is the subject of the new book. She also did a little demo using a video camera and projector. Of course, she showed us a lot of quilts, some of them that she had done and others that had been done by people in her classes. She also used her video camera to project close-ups of the quilts she showed so that you could see the piping and some of the quilting. She uses the camera and projector in her classes now so that it's easy to see what she is demonstrating. She is teaching at the Minnesota Quilt Show again this year.

Give the piping in binding a try. I don't use it in all my quilts, but in almost all wall hangings. I finished one last week and wasn't going to do the piping; then I put the two fabrics together and held them against the quilt; after seeing the effect, I decided it was definitely worth the effort to do the piping.

Julia > I'm on the program committee for our guild and she's one of the speakers at

Julia, how lucky you are to have had her at your guild! I'd love to take a class from her one day -- her sense of humor is wonderful. I love using her piping technique on my quilts; there are very few I have *not* used it on since I "discovered" it.