Reetzbobeetz wrote:
Rita a great idea can you tell me how do I do that?

Hi Bren,

Wow! It's been awhile since I last posted. So much to catch up on. There's a fabric search, http://www.quiltshops.com
I found one of your fabrics at The Stitching Post. http://www.stitchingpostquilts.com/cgi-bin/Store/store.cgi?product=Maywood_Return_to_Romance&productid=mwrr07&tracking4=search_mwrr07&pid=1#mwrr07
I hope you can click on link. You might find others via the fabric search site. There's another fabric search called, Fabshophop. Google will bring up link.
I've also found it helps to search individual fabric on google. I didn't buy enough of my background to finish my "WOTT ROTT-Spool Quilt". Local shop sold out and I finally the fabric via google. Now, I'm back working on it!

Hope this helps. I've got to change my avatar!

Bren,
I've sent a private message regarding your problem.

Hi Bren, it might be a good idea if you made this a separate thread on the forum so that others who are not getting topic notifications about this thread will see it. Also you could do a quick blog because there are some who I suspect only look at the blogs. I don't have any of those fabrics so I can't help, sorry.

I need your help! I committed to making a kit quilt for a friend and guess what? the kit was missing or short fabric.... to make it worse the reason she asked me to make her kit is because she knew I had the same kit and guess what? Mine is missing or short fabric too... I already talked to the store where we bought them and they gave me all the "Fat Quarters' they had because that was all of the fabric they had left.... GURRRR what to do, what to do... BINGO... ask the gals on the quilt show some one will know where to find it... here is what I need , It is called "Return to Romance", by Maywood studio fabric collection the cottons and not the flannels...
the numbers are
#2126-W White Large Bouquets we need 133 inches or 4 yards would be great, then we need
#2128-J Espresso Medallion we need a total of 54 inches and the last one we need is the wide black boarder
# 2130 or 2129-J I have to double check this number and I have to go to the studio to get the amount we need.
Here is a link to the quilt so you can see what I am looking for http://www.willowberrylane.com/calendar_quilt.htm
Oh I hope someone can help me find this....
shoot me a msg or post here I will check back in the morning. Thank you!

Oh, Margo. You are so quick...thanks for the update too.

golfjane wrote:

Jane, we've all been admiring this amazing quilt: [url]forum/this-and-that-quilting-related/6280-is-it-3d-must-see-hexies-quilt-a-m-a-z-i-n-g[/url]

And, you will enjoy what has happened with Geta and Rita! Scroll down on this page to read about it: [url]forum/friendship-triangle-exchange/5767-chinese-whispers[/url]

Also...Geta is a TQS member! Luv this community!

We all make such beautiful quilts and I've certainly enjoyed all the comments and good will on this forum. Thank you all. A friend sent me this link and just had to share--maybe some of you have seen it already--as it is absolutely something to behold!

http://cadouri-din-inima.blogspot.com/2013/04/about-friendship.html

Not sure I have the fortitude or patience to even begin such a project, let alone in a part of the world where quilting is not widely practiced.
Scroll down a bit to see the project--it is amazing.

Very good idea about the quilt for the firemen

PosyP wrote:
LOL those guys know EVERYTHING! Hee Hee! I should ask my DSIL he is one too! LOL!
But on another note, We shouldn't have to worry about those monkeys for a while now I think Spring has finally sprung here.. now if the wind would just settle down... We already had our first prairie fire yesterday...And the winds were very strong.. We are so lucky to have good fire men... I need to make them a "FIRE" quilt to raffle off for funs that they need....

Another thing to consider is how cold does it have to be for brass to become so brittle that it would be easy to break it? - I will have to ask DH about that (seeing as he is an engineer...)

Our "OLD DAY" weather man (back when I was a child) would say, "It's going to be cold tonight so you better bring in the brass monkeys!".. (which insinuated that it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey so you better be ready for it) I always thought that was kind of stupid to say but it was just that generations way of joking…. And I can really say that I see the humor in it soooo…I guess if it was really that cold it would be pretty darn cold!

More fun than a brick and safer than coals in a pan !! Ah...the olde days ! :shock:

Millboroquilter wrote: Alternatively, the full phrase that I got from my Dad and his mother, my Nan, was 'Cold enough to put the brass monkey's in the oven'. This would have been a brass ornament of the three brass monkey's See/Speak/Hear no evil, and that it was so cold that they would have been put in the oven to heat up and then be used in the place of a hot water bottle. Nanny was a true Cockney, and this is how I was brought up to understand the description of 'Brass Monkey weather'.