Superjudy, if you type 'basket weave' in to the search box at the top of the page to the right of 'The Quilt Show' title it brings up various mentions in the forum. Hopefully you will find what you are looking for.

Does anyone remember where Margo drew out the directions for how to do basket weave quilting? It doesn't seem to be
in her classroom so it must have been in answer to a question.

I promise, I'll get to putting my face up and I'll even fill in my profile. But, today my Thai student is coming and I'll have her for the weekend and tutoring (plus DH's siblings and entourage visiting from out of town starting tomorrow) so please be patient... and after all this beautiful 50+ degree weather, we are expecting snow on Sunday! I was perfectly happy with pink hair because that is what happens to redheads when they age anyway

Agreed Lois and Rita, it would be nice if Renata posted her picture. I will try to convince her as she trys to get me to post pictures of my quilts.
Danny

I agree with Lois, Renata. It would be so nice to see you.

craftydannyd wrote: Danny, Good time to join the banter. Not that I want to distract your sister from the job at hand, but I do wish she had an avatar. Preferably, I'd like to see her own face. Her personality is starting to come through her postings and it just doesn't fit with an image choosen by default. Lois

I have faith in you, you don't give yourself enough credit. Now take that bunny by the ears and go with it. Love ya Sis.

Danny

Kathy and Nancy,
you are both so right and I plan to reread your postings and those of others who were kind to comment whenever I hit quilter's block, if there is any such thing. After washing some of my practice pieces, I sometimes could not find my mistakes--the little bit of shrinkage made the uglies kind of disappear; on the more egregious errors, I chalked them up to learning (some of them even got lost in the midst of other quilting and only I knew where they were or others were too kind to point them out). Occasionally, I've ripped out the stitches just to get practice in fixing things. I guess when all is said and done, this will have been my first quilt top that I've quilted and I'll accept it in that vein. Gotta start somewhere so I may as well take the plunge! Nancy, you're right, I do come from a family of artists, in earnest--mother a designer, one sister a painter but dabbles in quilting and the other sister a quilter with 30 years under her belt! And they just sucked me right into quilting the day I retired from the military! Kathy: Cheers! Salute! Prost! Proscht! Nostrovia! Kampai! Gan Bei! to our quilting journey and anyone else who would like to join us! I will do my best!
Renata

Renata - That quilt is so beautiful! You definitely come from a family of artists! You've gotten a lot of great advice and the only thing I would add is to not be hard on yourself about little bobbles in your quilting. Remember that nobody will ever put their nose as close to the quilt as you have it while you are doing the quilting. Step back when evaluating your quilting. Look at the whole rather than the individual stitches. Advice I've read several places is to move on when you make a mistake. If you can't find the mistake when you're done, then it's not a bad mistake, is it?

Nancy

Renata, you've got the right frame of mind- your quilt will be even more beautiful after you've finished it. There is no such thing as perfection, especially with hand made things. You'll have little things that didn't turn out exactly the way you thought they would, but no one else will notice them.

I'm about to start this process with the 2011 BOM. The top is finished, I've bought the backing, and the quilting is somewhat figured out. So I will be working on mine when you are doing yours. Here's to good work for both of us.

kathy

good for you - am looking forward to reading how it's going

Thank you, thank you, everyone for your suggestions and encouragement!!! Quilting the first one has to be the most difficult. You gave me enough that I can at least make a start and I have a sneaking suspicion that once I stabilize the quilt with SID, and do one section, there will be no turning back. I might even enjoy it (I hope!!!!). I haven't done a tremendous amount of practice on the Leah Day stuff, but I have gotten to the point where my stitches are becoming consistent, without bird's nests underneath and not as much tension nightmares as before. I also find that I do better on a few blocks put together than on plain fabric sandwiches because then I have a little more sense of purpose in my practice. But I do get on the machine and practice as much as possible. And FMQ does get better! I just wish I weren't such a perfectionist...

Since I've never put together a serious (larger than a placemat) quilt sandwich, I've contact a few friends and next week we are going to get together and they are going to teach me how to put Rabbit in the Moon together so I can start quilting. So you see, I've made the commitment--can't back out now... THANK YOU!!!

Renata, I love your quilt. It is beautiful. Follow the advice given above and just do it. Breaking it up into small pieces is a good idea. You sound more confident with SITD. Start there and then take a break. Pick a small section that is not so intimidating and start there. Take a break and pick the next section. Good luck! Lois

i agree with all of the above - absolutely beautiful. would also SID first - then you only have small sections and can look at each of them individually. much too beautiful to keep rolled up!