Because I work at a middle school, I can't watch the live broadcasts, but enjoy catching up on the weekend while I sew. I'm also working on my 9 patch blocks for this year's BOM and masks for my staff. But I'm beginning to get the stars done. I love the asymmetry of the stars' points. I'm using left overs from my BOM quilt and other scraps. It may not be done by Christmas, but I'm loving this little quilt and really enjoying Alex's encouragement while I sew. Here's pics of my progress, and the holiday masks I'm making

I knew I wanted to make a quilt with the word JOY on it and when I saw your Holiday Quilt I knew the border was what I wanted to use around JOY.
I had so much fun making it until I was squaring it up to put the binding on and grabbed an indelible red pen instead of a gel pen. How did I find out it was the wrong pen??? My markings wouldn't iron off. OMG I was so upset. I was able to cut off the markings from three sides but not the bottom. Does anyone know how to remove indelible ink????

Helen W. Interesting, but I'll stick with the "rope" Besides I now have it all sewn on. Adding dreidels, letters and coins today.

Sue Gee , When I saw your holiday quilt, I thought to myself, I wonder if swags would work in place of the rope. I tried it out in EQ8 and thought I would just
post it so you could see too. HelenW

yeah can’t say as I blame you!!

quote="SueGee" post=151920]And that is why I intensely dislike using red! In fact there is NO red in my stash.[/quote]

And that is why I intensely dislike using red! In fact there is NO red in my stash.

Hi Michele,
You are so right!! I completely forgot in my haste to try to get it done. At least nothing is permanent....yet, so it can be changed. Thanks so much for catching this.
Virtual Hugs,
SueGee

Hi SueGee -

Don't hate me.

I just saw Alex's broadcast today, but couldn't get this done in time to post while she was live.

Your Stars of David are lovely (the ombre fabric is fabulous)...but, alas, the order of the letters matter. The top two blocks should switch positions, as well as the bottom two. IOW, upper left to upper right, and lower left to lower right.

נ-ג-ה-ש (it's read right to left). The letters in the blocks would be read UppR, UppL, LwrR, LwrL.

Also the letters on the dreidels around the perimeter should be in the same order as above.

You've got the letters in an English order orientation (left to right) when it's meant to be read right to left.

Be glad it's just a quilt and can be fixed (relatively) easily (if you so choose). There's a whole blog dedicated to people who went out and got Hebrew tattoos without checking with anyone even remotely familiar with the language. Tragic, but I'll admit I did chuckle when I saw some of the results.

The letters represent the first letters of four words "נס גדול היה שם" (a very popular Chanukah song) which translates to "A great miracle happened there" - (re: oil burning for 8 days story).

Edited: Just noticed in an earlier post you already posted the translation.

Beautiful! Love the sleigh and the border is wonderful!
HelenW wrote:

Took me an entire day to wash, rewash, and rewash the Reds that kept bleeding even with Synthrapol and color catchers. Some of my white backgrounds are now pink. Then dry, starch, iron, cut into 5 inch strips, then re-starched and re-ironed. Made my very first ever half square triangle with the star singles paper today, came out perfect I think. And by the way, they do not make a single hole throat plate for my singer machine, and the feed dogs are far apart, but with the paper piecing and heavy starch, it seem to work fine.

Wow! You ate done already? Beautiful!
Flynda wrote:

Flynda, it’s fabulous!

Here it is, bound, quilted and sitting on my front porch to add some holiday cheer and color to our world!

Here's the latest on my holiday quilt. Can't iron on my design wall as it is a plastic table cloth. I need to get a new wall.
Working slowly since I have to use my dining table to lay out the "rope".