I hope they are some profit to the world, if not to me. I will have to keep trying though. Jan

As my Scottish FIL says

'Children, they're nay profit to ye'

Well my son wasn't very receptive to his quilt unfortunately. But I guess it is a function of being 17. I have to take back all of his clothes that I bought as well. So much for the effort involved. Jan

The trapunto really makes those spheres pop! Good job! Lois

jan, it's looking fantastic - love it - and am certain sean will love it - these are gifts that are treasured.
for my 30th birthday my mom crochet me a pair of potholders using a drawing i had when i was 5 or so years old as pattern - they do look their age - but 17 years on they still make me smile whenever i use them.

drj2athome wrote:
Jan, check here: [url]forum/forum-questions-and-suggestions/4275-tips-for-using-the-tqs-forum[/url]

Jan, that is awesome!! Sure looks puffy in those spheres! I am sure Sean will love it!!

I just noticed on your profile that you live in Windham. I used to live in Pelham, so we might have been neighbors! Although that was decades ago! LOL

It was Esterita Austin who taught me how to transfer a design onto fabric with transdoodle chalk paper so I could do the bent checkerboard. I think I already posted this though. My husband and I have been trying to post the picture of the quilt on this thread unsuccessfully. How does one do this???? I need to know. Also I wanted to thank Ritzy for the tip about the Inktense pencils from Derwent that I colored the spheres with.

But I would love to know how to put a picture in the threads. Jan

The quilter who helped me with the bent checkerboard was Esterita Austin. She uses the transdoodle to transfer the pattern to the cloth. I watched Phillipa Naylor's show before I did the trapunto. And Patsy Thompson had a video I googled to find. I think it was Youtube. But I think it's on here as well. Her trapunto video is of a beautiful pansy. It is amazing how we quilter's share so much to learn. And I'll be able to use this thread to go to the catalogging Norma did. Thanks so much. After Christmas I'll let you know if he liked it. Jan

Merry Christmas and thank you all. If you want to see the results I posted the quilt on my profile and it's on the quilt gallery as of yesterday. The hardest part was appliqueing the bent checkerboard and also trying to weave the spheres. I cheated on the small ones and used checkerboard fabric. I used Laura Wasiloski's techniques and techniques from Anna Faustino and another quilter whom I took a class from who makes misty fuse. The name is unusual and she does her technique on one of the videos here. Jan

Norma, thank you very much! I have saved your updated spreadsheet. I had meant to keep it updated when I saved an earlier edition but haven't

Merry Christmas to you too.

Hello, I'm the member who did the spreadsheet. I stop updating the documents after series 9, because the search function on TQS has improved a lot. Though if you want to put in your own comments to be able to search them too, you can download my document and go on working with it. Here are the links. I have some problems with the doc version, so the difference between the plain version and rev1 is that episode 913 is in the last. If you have a newer Word, I recommend you take the docx version.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4117199/TQS_Show_INDEKS.doc

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4117199/TQS_Show_INDEKSrev1.doc

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4117199/TQS_Show_INDEKS.docx

Merry Christmas to all my TQS friends. I so appreciate you being a part of my life.

Go to the Daily Blog page and click on the Search button in the right border. Type in trapunto and see the results.