The Treadle is beautiful! Can't wait to see it when it's finished!

Nancy

Sounds like everyone is keepin' busy...sewing ,traveling and in general, having a fine February ! I finished one fair
sized quilt and finished a big top...it's pin basted now and sitting by the machine waiting for me to start. Nothing
fancy...a med. stipple large enough to still be soft...100 inches is a lot to push thru a machine...even Big Berni !
My other project is the restoration of Gr. Grandma Lillies' treadle ... It is coming along...I'm putting final finish on
the wood parts now. Considering that it was pretty much a box of kindling...it's not turning out too bad...not near
original but should be serviceable. Must say...I'm thinking of Limbania....

The Spring Quilt Festival is on this weekend at Ingliston, Edinburgh. I have organised a coach to take our group to it. That's got quilts to see and loads of vendors. The Scottish Quilt Festival in September is the one that has competition quilts in it. Both are run by Grosvenor, the same as the Harrogate one.

The Great Northern Show this year is on from 30th Aug - 1st Sept, entries by 5th July, quilts in by post to arrive by 21st Aug or hand delivered on 27th Aug. Given my current track record for speed in finishing quilts I will need every last minute to get it done in time My dad doesn't refer to me as 'hot needle & burning thread' for nothing

I suppose I could make a light green hanging loop that goes off the top of Too Loud Man so that it toned in with the binding but doesn't cover the quilt on either side.

Or there is my Sottt's quilt - that would definitely have to be a 'group quilt' wouldn't you say...

PosyP wrote:
Either of your quilts would work. If it is a reversible quilt they try to hang it so you can see both sides. When is the Great Northern show?

rehak wrote:
Wouldn't that be awesome

Reetzbobeetz wrote:
I'd LOVE it if all of my Chinese Whispers friends could join me!! We could have a skype retreat, but it might be the middle of the night for some of us...

scottishquilter wrote: Nope, I can't say as the idea had ever crossed my mind. Which one were you thinking of? Too Loud Man weighs in at about 7lb, and being reversable which side would I put the hanging sleeve on

Rosemary, have you ever thought of entering your quilt in the Open section of the Loch Lomond Quilt Show. It would be nice for us up here to see it. I have pasted below a bit about it. Go into their website and see all the rules.

Open Competition: "Re-Jigged"

'Let your imagination dance with ideas – re think, re make, re do, re invent or re use. Give a pattern, a block, an idea or your choice of materials a new twist.'

Your entry can be a bed quilt, a wall hanging, a decorative or wearable item. Please note the minimum and maximum sizes. If you need any extra information do e-mail us and ask.

A little bit of resting on my laurals here after (finally) finishing my Too Loud Man quilt. Wondering what to do next... (imagine the conversation between the vultures on the Jungle Book film - 'What we gonna do now then?' 'Well I dunno, what you wanna do now then?' etc. etc.)
I think that I should turn my attention to Caught Red Handed, if I want to get it finished for entering into this years Great Northern show, which means making some more diddy sized blocks for inserting into the wide border, coming up with a design for the reverse side (seeing what fabrics I have for it) and also since it is for competitions I am wondering whether using a blanket would be too heavy (postage etc), besides wanting a plain blanket, rather than a striped ended one which might shadow through. But if I didn't use a blanket what would I use instead? decisions, decisions!
Actually I think that I might just work on one of the sets of orphan blocks that I am intending to become an AAQI quilt and have a play with ess, followed up with some threadplay on it.

EG meeting this weekend so I get to meet up with my embroidery/sewing chums. Wonder what we are doing?

Nancy, I wish I lived near you and then I could go to all your retreats! Have fun and don't worry about me, I'll be fine here on my own, in my little sewing room, just sewing away quietly....

Lotti, I am sorry to hear you have tendonitis in your right wrist. Did you try doing the exercises from the youtube video that Rosemary posted a while back? Is yours caused by over-use or do you have arthritis? Anyway, I hope your other health checks have good results.

And Lois, good on you doing the mock mola quilt, it's great. A technique I have yet to try.

have a good health soon lotti!

You've all been busy ladies. Sewed most of last weekend, my friend Claudia's qult is going places... And I finally figured out what I should do with and started doing with... On Doris' memory quilt. When she had her good-bye party last may, I took along a width of fabric for everyone to sign and leave their wishes... Well the signatures and drawings have now cured and it's been put in a plain border and now the 'backing is being made up, strip by strip... Plan to bring it to her new home when I go to Canada in mid may...
... That architectural quilt for BJ & Terry's challenge, is however not doing a thing... Not even lurking in my mind these days, hmmmm
Now off to the doctor's for my thyroid check-up and to find out what to do about the tendinitis in my right wrist and that nasty tailbone that has been giving me trouble for a good year now... Well, gotta make the best of these appointments don't we, and do it all at once...

Sounds like everyone is keeping busy!

I finished my Heart Blossom quilt from Ricky's pattern, but still need to take a picture. I'll upload it as soon as I have it. I also started designing the quilting for my mom's tablecloth quilt. I have the inner part designed and am struggling with the outer part, although I just came up with another idea to try so I might be able to get that worked out soon. Again, I'm behind in my pictures, but they'll be following soon.

I'm looking forward to a lot of sewing the next couple of weekends. Next Sat is sew day at a friend's house. I'll bring some hand work for that so I don't have to carry my machine for just a day. The following weekend is the spring quilt retreat for one of our local quilt guilds. A friend suggested I should join her at this, even though I haven't been a member of the guild, so I joined the guild and signed up. So I'll be sewing with a new group from Thurs-Sun that weekend. And the weekend after than is the spring retreat for my regular guild, again Thurs-Sun. So I've started thinking about what I'll bring to the retreats. I think I'll leave everything except my machine in the car between the retreats to save packing time!

Nancy