I have only gotten as far as looking at my reels on the design wall but I started thinking about your post. I sort of like the idea of a strippy quilt. Perhaps put the reels head to toe in rows with solid strips separating the rows. Great quilting area on those strips!

Or what about a Coins quilt. Like a strippy but with solid strips between each reel in the vertical row also.

Oh, the wheels are turning!! LOL

Just wondered if anyone is NOT making reels/spools with their little blocks (?) and if not, what are you doing with them? . I was planning on having a narrow rectangle of brown top and bottom so they looked like Guterman reels but I happened to lay out a couple of rows with just the coloured blocks with white rectangles (same size) in between and I quite liked the look of it - although I guess you could say it looked "minimalist" to say the least What other ideas have you girls come up with?

Yeah!! My two recipes are posted.
Lori

Me too. I am going right now to get it. No more excuses.
Lori

Thanks, Terrie, for asking--I needed to be reminded...

crocus999 wrote:
Hey, Terrie,
No prob...just email to me or post to recipe topic & I'll snag it.
thanks,

Okay, I admit I'm being lazy, and not looking through XX number of pages, but if it is not too late, who do I send a recipe(s) to?

Bren, what great blessings that fires are under control & you're getting rain!
Your quilt is fab & will be so admired at the fair.
Nancy, love your idea of quilting in the names. Once when we made a raffle quilt, all our names were quilted in. Makes it extra special.

Great idea Nancy - I just might do that! Thanks.

rehak wrote: I like this idea Nancy, I might swipe it.
Bren

rehak wrote:
I was thinking about using my embroidery machine to put the names on the wooden reels/spools but before putting the quilt sandwich together. I like your idea better, Nancy: less labor intensive and just as pretty. Your way obviates the need to set each name up in the software and the stabilizer required to do embroidery. I'm going to use your approach. Thank you for the great idea.

Rita - You could also quilt each person's name on their spool. That would be a subtle (or not so subtle if you used thick,constrasting thread) way to keep that as part of the quilt. And you would always remember who made each spool right as you are admiring them.

Nancy

Reetzbobeetz wrote:
One of the things that is in the 'Reels & Recipts' book is a scan/picture of everyone's reels with their name, country & reel name (if it has one) next to it, so that way it will be possible to cross reference all of the reels

I know that I mentioned putting peoples avatars in as well, but it would be a right nusiance to put their avatar next to their reel, after all the problems I had with getting the reels in the right order . Currently I am thinking of having them as a section of their own at the back or maybe as individual pages scattered through the book. For the reels & recipes we are looking at interspersing them with each other, rather than having them all reels together, and then all recipes together, and trying to have the relevant recipes next to or near their reel.

Thanks Susan. I loved making it! I always get a little sad when it is done tho, I'm not sure why that is.... Any ideas?

Have a great day!

Bren, I think it means your heart, soul and spirit were into making that quilt and finishing it is like a "little death" because its over. I also believe the reason you are only "a little sad" is that you trust the creative process and know it will be reborn in something new. Life is wonderful that way! Yay! Rain!