I haven't seen anything posted by Carol about the HST book, so I'm assuming that it's a permanent UFO!

Thanks, Margo, but I was wondering about the comments for the HST book. I think in my rush to get the pictures to the deadline, I just didn't write anything about my quilts
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So, if we have something to add in our blurb, we send it to Captain John?

Brilliant - it will be so nice to see what others have done with their reels.

Margo, You are the best!

Reetzbobeetz wrote:
WHOO-HOO!! John has extended the end date for another year! If you have any Wot RoTT photos, please post them for us to see!!
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Lorna I looked at your quilt with the names stitched in fm and I thought it would take forever so I did it with the embroidery letters on my machine. I think it's taking a lot longer!

Jeanne, thanks for the comment about my border. I wanted to do something that related to Ireland without being too twee. We inherited a beautiful tablecloth from my DH's family embroidered by his grandmother with fabulous shamrocks so I drew my inspiration from that.

Lois, I am glad you like the addition of the names. I was thinking that it would have been a lot simpler to add the names all around the edge of the border where it joins the blocks and that way one would only have to have the width of the border under the harp space of the machine all the time. Pity I didn't think of it until now. Oh well, I will get there in the end.

Reetzbobeetz wrote:

Rita, your quilt is great! I also love your shamrocks!

Good catch on the date to enter quilts on show & tell. We'll have to see if we can get that changed. Maybe that is why there are still only two uploaded there. I think I saw a similar comment for other show & tell sections. The 2 quilts on there are Bren's (Millboroquilter) and mine! To add people's names on mine I free motion quilted their names and place in the plain blocks between the spools. They are not necessarily next to the person's reel, but at least they are all in there.

Lorna

Rita, I went back and looked at the Applique on your spool quilt. I adore your Shamrocks! Very creative Irish touch. You pulled together a lot of meaning in your quilt. Very well done!

Rita, I love the addition of the names on your quilt. I think it is worth the time and effort even if you have to wait and order more thread. What a great idea! Very creative.

Thanks for all the lovely comments. If anybody else is thinking of doing this please be aware that it uses a lot of thread, I have just run out of the thread I was using. Fortunately I have a near match for it but I don't think I will be able to get the quilt done without ordering more. And it takes a lot of time too.

When I was thinking about doing this I decided to have a look at the Wot RoTT show and tell page to see if anybody else had done anything like it. I was very disappointed to see that the start and finish date for including a quilt on the page was so short that there are only two quilts there....and one of those is Edyta Sitar's! Surely TQS can change the cut off date for putting a quilt on the page??? I would love to see what others have done with their spools.

Rita your quilt is beautiful. What a great idea to include the names on the blocks.

Brilliant!