What are your current quilting projects?

Basically - the quilting.

I have a little pile of quilts waiting for this vital step - all the ufos in my webshots!

Also have last years European swap to 'quilt as you go' - all sandwiched ready, and this year's Starry Night to sash/border (got the fabric ready).

I did intend to do Cheryl's Christmas Tree for this Christmas, but it aint going to happen (again got the fabric ready), have the cats sitting on the steps cut out, and 2 wallhangings for over my internal kitchen window planned and 'fabriced'. Oh! also the table runner from Kims Mystery last Christmas needs putting together

So first things first, and I've got more than enough to do!

Oh, and also my hand quilt travelling project - a blue Japanesey bag, and also a few little bits and bobs for the two Christmas Fair craft stalls - tiny stockings or something.

Too many 'Oh's so I'll just start with the quilting with a deadline (2), and the bits for the stalls, and try not to start anything new for a while.

In message , Pat in Virginia writes

I am gathering fabric together to make a crib quilt. Just got to get GD's wedding over next week Then maybe I can settle down. I am doing the wedding cake. Just put pictures up of the my wedding jewellery that I have made under beadwork. Also put up the pictures of the wedding stationery I have made under Wedding. URL in Sig. line Shirley

School starting for me means putting down the needle. Unfortunately I did not accomplish as much this summer as I had hoped to. This coming weekend I hope to (lofty hopes): Do some machine quilting on the green and blue Turning Twenty Again quilt I made for my neice. Cut and hopefully mostly finish the baby quilt for Suzanne Rose. Shop for and find purse hardware I need to finish a Godess purse I started 3 weeks ago in a class.

Linda PATCHogue, NY

Linda PATCHogue, NY

I'm still trying to finish up a few baby quilts for my church fair in October. A friend overbought kits at Joanne's, then lost interest before she made them. I offered to do them up for her. Some of these kits were short the exact amount of fabric needed, so I need to find some matching fabric to make up the difference. I had to put down another critter this week, my 8 year old cat, Brigit. She developed a liver problem, stopped eating and became jaundiced (her ears turned yellow). The vet said she would need a feeding tube for a couple of months and ultra sounds, x-rays, and MRIs, but it wouldn't be a cure. I didn't want to put her through that, so we said goodbye. That's 3 critters we've lost in 6 months. My house is feeling lonely, just 3 furballs left.

My son is dating a girl who really likes fairies and I'd like to find some fairy material to make a bag or a small quilt. I'm not having lots of luck. My webtv doesn't work with every site, so if anyone knows of some fairy material, please let me know. My wish list would be a red-headed fairy sitting on a mushroom. (Not too fussy, am I?) She has a huge tattoo on her thigh of a fairy on a mushroom, a set of fairy wings (lifesized) on her back, and a mushroom with vine on her ankle. She's a gorgeous redhead, and my son is head over heels in love. He's almost 30, so it's about time. He's been touring the country for the past 2 year wih the Renaissance Faires but has just come home to work at the King Richard's Faire in Massachusetts.

If anyone can find fairies (with or without mushrooms) material, let me know. I'm not looking for anything that looks like angels, just fairies.

Denise

QI

I had vowed to clean up my sewing room, however, I was waylaid and of course the sewing room is still about to be condemned! I did get a "hearts and gizzards" up on the design wall. Now I just have to trim the applique backing, then put the blocks together. Bonnie NJ

{{{hugs}}} BTDT.

These are all equilter links:

- fairies with butterfly wings and pixie boots on a yellow background - same on royal blue - same on black - flower fairies on pale blue HTH

Lizzy

Three quilted security blankets for three women on my block who are about to have babies. The shower is in one month and I just started... (The blankets are only 18x18, so not very big.)

-- Anita --

Marking that silk robe I was talking about making forever ago for quilting. Did it like a princess style overcoat in raw silk. Quilting will be celtic interlace around the edges, and staggered hemp leaf as in sashiko over the main body. After it is quilted and dyed I will make frogs instead of using buttons. Still haven't got the batting, but the Hobbs Tuscany silk seems a natural choice. Probably will paint the interlace to match the frogs too. Be a bit of a pain, but it would suit the overall look of the thing.

NightMist

Wow, what a lot of great projects! I'm making a hanging for our annual benefit silent auction for the Anacortes Forest Lands. I took a photo of a bench at our local Heart Lake, brightened the colors and printed it on fabric. Now I'm dyeing pieces to border it using leaves and other patterns found in the original scene.

Great fun!

Jan

I'm here to help if you need me :-) Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap

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Friendship quilt for charity (blue and white split 9-patch, will be splendid if enough people contribute!). Plus a large number of concurrent scrap projects. Blocks get made as scraps appear, more or less. And someday there will be something to show off! Roberta in D

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OK, I'm starting to drool a little. Any way we'll ever see a photo? Roberta in D

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We share your pain. Roberta in D, giggling just a little, may turn into maniacal laughter soon

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Tinkerbell is a fairy. There are lots of places that sell Disney's Tinkerbell fabric including Joann's and Walmart. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I'm doing Terbear's Your Pick swap. So far all the blocks I've made for other people are applique. I've made one pieced block for myself too. I've made a section in my WebShots album for the blocks I've sewn. I think I labeled it YP Blocks.

I finished quilting the baby quilt but I still have to bind it. The baby is due next month so I've got to get moving on it. With the weather cooling off, I gain the ability to baste a quilt or two for the winter months, so I guess I need to make some quilt backs. I need one for the Bow Tie (full bed) and one for the Space Quilt (king). Debra in VA See my quilts at

I just finished 3 prayer quilt tops for my friend's church. I'm trying to get my challenge quilt finished for next spring's quilt show (they have to have it before we return from Florida). I also have 3 on-going projects that require my entire stash, so have to be completed before we head south near the end of October. My DS2 is moving back home for the winter, house-sitting and looking for a part time jobs. He has been on disability for a couple of years, and is ready to start returning to the work force. His roommate got married a year ago, and they wanted their own place. Unfortunately, DS2 wasn't able to find any place to live on his budget, so we are storing his furniture in the garage, and he is moving into the guest room.

I can't sit at the sm for very long- my surgery leg swells and every 2-3 hrs. of sitting costs me about 5 hrs. with my legs elevated. (sigh) But I am slowly working on a tiny quilted cell phone case for one of the gals at the real estate office. She doesn't carry a purse and lost her first cell phone somewhere in the middle of a 280 acre parcel she was 'walking' with a prospective buyer. The case will have a long strip of velcro on the band (longer velcro piece for more holding power, I hope) to attach it to her blue jean's belt loop and a smaller strap over the top of the phone. The soon-to-be ex rescued a tiny 8 mo. old Pomeranian pup and I am slowly designing and quilting an 'igloo' dog house for the little dog. The igloo is for the *dog*- not for him. We are getting along quite well, but...... VBG I am proud of anybody who rescues a dog from a bad situation regardless of who it may be. Besides, I crack up every time I see this BIG man- 6'2" and about 220 lbs.- walking this 3 lb. tiny little Pom. And she just adores him, so she proudly prances along side of him as they take walks together. Too funny!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Thanks! Sounds darling! MAmadurk