Renata wrote: Actually some ammendments are creeping into the original design, someone posted a picture of reels that don't have pointy tips to the wooden part of the reel, which I really like, so I will be going with that, also since this will make my reel blocks narrower I will be able to fit more in across the width - this is a good thing since I seem to have ended up with more than 82 I also want to have a bit of a play with the layout of the border, once I get some blocks made up - I had always intended to, but the bits of paper were so itty-bitty it was difficult to comfortably play.

Rosemary,
Love your background and spool ends fabric choices--warm and soft.
Avatar pictures would be wonderful with the recipes--great idea.
Rita,
Your colors are great and you're very creative too...me, I can follow patterns really well but don't make me come up with my own design-aaaccckkk.
Bren,
Beatiful quilt--the Flagstaff quilt shop had that Marti Michel pattern and fabrics a couple of years ago as a BOM and I thoroughly enjoyed making it too. Yours is lovely. Don't feel guilty--everyone needs time to reflect and refresh and now is your time.

Bren , delighted to hear that you are safe & well, your newly finished quilt is wonderful, and pleased to see a little bit of green in your photo.

Thank you God for your reprieve from the fires! I hope it lasts.

Bren,

So glad to hear the fires are dying down and the danger is gone. And very glad that you are safe.

I love the quilt it is beautiful. Whose pattern is it?

WOW! Amazing! It posted my picture! Cool!

Good news all, The fires are under control. Praise God, They are still burning in the canyons, that will take sometime to burn out, but the danger for now is gone!
Thank you all so much for your prayers. I know God listens to each of us. You are all so special to me and my family! Thanks you so very much!
We are now gearing up for the chopping season, since the corn is dieing (no rain) without making any corn seed, we have no choice but to chop it. (much more expensive and labor intensive).
We can not turn the cows into feed on it because "get this" it is poisonous to them like it is, standing in the field dieing!... Crazy right?
Anyway, since there is only so many tractors and trucks to run, and we have no other jobs right now, we actually have enough help soooooo I get this job "OFF", yahoo...
Guess what I am doing instead of chopping corn silage? Yeah… your right... I'm quilting..
And I actually finished a quilt this year (last night) all the way.. I will take it tomorrow to the local fair to see if it pleases the judges! LOL! I kind of like not working so hard all day and into the night, but I do feel guilty…
I'll try to get this thing to post a photo of it but my pictures are to big usually and won’t post so I will try... If it doesn’t post it is just a "Ramblin’ Rose meets Jamestown" quilt so you can probably Google it and see what it looks like....

Rita, love your reel ends. I may have to reconsider the fabric I bought. If I can find it. I had to quickly move things around for my DH and DS to do some remodeling and now I can't find the fabric. It shouldn't be too deep, because it has not been that long since I purchased it. It took me several tries to find the reels, but I finally did. They look beautiful on my design wall.
Hope you daughter has a wonderful birthday.
Lotti, loved hearing about your holiday. Hope you are having a wonderful time. It is much too hot to do any hiking here today. It is to be 100 degrees F.
Wishing everyone a wonderful day too.
Rosemary, I liked your background fabric too. I think mine is close to yours in color, but until I find it I can't be sure.

I like your fabrics Rosemary. The background is going to be lovely and warm and the reel ends look great too. Edyta's book says that you need 3 1/4 yards of background fabric so you should be more than okay with 4mtrs.

It would be great to have avatars with the reels - but will you get all those secret swoppers to reveal themselves?

PosyP wrote:
Wow, Rosemary... you stuck to your guns! You made your design once upon a time ago and that is what you're going with. When I went back to page 1 I recalled it immediately. It's going to be great!

Renata wrote: See page one ( if only I could find that bit of paper )

Background fabric is soft and very pretty... have you got an overall design yet?

Well I've managed to reduce the piles on my work table Got out the fabric I had bought hoping it would be good for the background and draped over my large frame for a temp design wall, and put up some of the reels.
I think that it is going to be a soft overall look, but I like it so far.
This one shows one of the fabrics I have bought for reel ends behind a block.

{!-- ia0 -->CIMG6663.JPG{!-- ia0 --> and this one shows all the fabrics I have so far for the reel ends, I decided to have several different ones so that if I ran out of one it wouldn't show.

Now I just have to go away and do lots of maths to work out sizes to cut things & how many etc. etc. etc. and may be a bit more starching I'm hoping that my 4m for the b/ground will be enough, because it was a sale end and I doubt that I can get any more, ho-hum.

Rosemary,
Including an avatar is a great idea. It's fun being able to put a face to the recipe, reel/spool or whatever it is. I forgot to post my recipe Will have to do that this evening. Leaving Friday for Austin, Texas to suprise my brother on his 60th birthday.

Rita,
Your spools look great. I like the different colors for the tops and bottoms. Like some of the others, I was planning on using some shade of brown, but now you have me thinking. Didn't start yet, so will see.
Lori