I bet you feel really special using the old lady. Do you dress appropriately?

Rita....Fun to hear Ruby is up and treadling ! The machine Bonnie Hunter was using on Quilt Cam
last nite is like mine...Improved Family Singer 1888...with the funky bobbin arrangement ! and all !
Works great for 125 yrs old ! I know Ruby will give hours of pleasant stitchin' !

Reetzbobeetz wrote: As long as it isn't my foot pedal leg....

Thanks, Rita. That's a great primer for someone like me not knowing what to look for in a treadle.

Thanks for the link Maureen. It's good to see what others have done in the past. I can't wait to see our entry.

I had a lovely time for about an hour yesterday afternoon playing with Ruby. She stitched beautifully and I made a few little 2" paper pieced square in a square blocks. The machine is so quiet when it is treadling along. It took about a minute to get the knack of swinging the wheel towards me to start pedaling and get a good flow. I had to look up some youtube videos to check that I was threading the bobbin correctly etc., and found some really useful stuff. I discovered that mine is a 201K in Cabinet 51. I am not certain but I don't think it had the pot belly motor originally, I think it was just a treadle machine. But I would love to know more about it if anybody has information? If you are interested this man has lots of really useful tips:

http://oldsingersewingmachineblog.com/tag/singer-cabinet-no-51/

Love them Maureen. Not sure how they got from boats to nude ladies. All very clever, it's going to be fun to see them all next year

Thanks for the link Wendy. Wow what a lot of lovely quilts. It is so intriguing to see how different minds work. The one that I couldn't fathom was how somebody got from the windows of a skyscraper to a squirrel in a tree!

Maureen I think you are going to have a lot of extra work this year. I would offer to help but I am too far away and as yet I am not even sure if I can make it or how long I can make it for. I would particularly like to get there as it is going to be the last one. That makes me sad even just writing it.

Rosemary, it sounds like you will have your work cut out for you - no wait, that would have been an earlier process. It will be like falling off a log....or a horse, or a bike.... something like that. But break a leg anyway.

It is not your link Wendy it is obviously my computer. No matter what I do I cna't see the group photos.

Have a look at this.http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2011/08/16/3294614.htm

Sorry Maureen try copy and pasting this address http://saqa-norcal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/2012-whisper-challenge.html

scottishquilter wrote:
Maureen, I could not either by clicking on the middle of the picture. However, if you look to the bottom left where it says "Group 1" in the first picture, if you click on that, you will at least be able to scroll through each picture (you'll see a directional arrow at the bottom of the picture after you click on "Group X."

Wow Wendy! After seeing those CW quilts I really can't wait to see what you guys come up with! Some of those sure had me wondering too.

Can't see the quilts in the link.

Wendy, in the rules the number for each group was no less than 8 and no more than 16. I think the average is around 12 per group = 264 , the mind boggles and of course the largest could be up to 40" x 40". We need a massive hall. The CW exhibition will be the largest exhibition we have ever had - what a way to finish the LLQS.

I will let you know when we find somewhere suitable for that many