Have fun on your trip. Empty Spools sounds like a wonderful time and it looks like an awesome venue.

Lorna

That sounds like a wonderful vacation. Hope you get to do a little sewing while in Houston. Enjoy the warmth while on you trip.

suehenyon wrote: I am not putting an owl on my quilt. I was talking about other convergence quilts I had seen and how they were quilted. I am using an simple pattern quilted all over the quilt top. I will not finish the quilt for a while however. I am leaving on Saturday to go to Empty Spools Seminar in California and taking a class for the week with Sally Collins in drafting and precision piecing. I then fly to Houston to babysit my granddog Watson so my daughter and her spouse can celebrate their first wedding anniversary at Disney World. I won't return to cold and snowy New Jersey for about 3 weeks.

Can't wait to see the results of your convergence, Radquilter.

loise98 wrote:
Yes! I love the parts about gardening, medicinal herbs & the food. Makes me want to start on my "potted" herb garden for the spring, but it's way to friggin' cold here with snow on the way

Looking forward to seeing Radquilter's Convergence. This quilt looks like so much fun, and with an owl, to boot! Is it perhaps a Snowy Owl, such is being seen frequently in the eastern parts of the USA these days?

magnus wrote: I found a variegated thread that does match the colors in the hand dyed fabric I used and seems to blend with the other fabrics as well as helping to blend the black fabric with the others. I have seem some convergence quilts where a specific drawing was placed in the quilting but my challenge fabric is a random styled stripe so I could not come up with a drawing that worked with that. I found one convergence with an owl in flight stitched across the quilt which was exquisite and another stitched with leaves on it where some of the fabrics were roses. Beautiful. I found a simple quilting pattern that will give some texture to the piece and I hope that does the trick. Thank you for your input.

Yes, Lorna, those were the kind of books you miss when they end. I am sure the content would appeal to quilter's. I loved the details regarding skills of daily living, knowledge of medicinal herbs and learning/remembering some history lessons. I would expect you would find the storyline particularly appealing because the heroine who crossed over back in time was a physician. I am thinking that if they are all audible they'd be great to revisit while machine quilting.

suehenyon wrote:
I love, love, love the whole Outlander series! It was fun last summer to visit the places in the books -- Culloden, Inverness, Fort William, Loch Ness, etc. We traveled up there with my daughter and her family. She's the one who turned me on to the book series. Can't wait for the next book to come out! This summer I think... In fact in 2011, my first year over here, when I visited my first stone circle, I wrote to her and told her no tingling felt.

Lorna

suehenyon wrote:
Susan, I have read the entire "Outlander" series. I am eagerly awaiting the next one. Amazing books.

I used variegated thread that "matched" the hand dye colours - or most of them. I quilted one following the cut lines sort of in echo style and on another I designed a specific drawing to realize in quilting.

Jeanine

Yep! The whole thing's a fiction.

Oh Lordy, I hope it is weak on the romance side, as in the vomit-ee- too- much -sex- side. I was wondering during the first half hour, but it seems good now. I was thinking it's more historical/sci-fi/fantasy.

Does that mean that you are a romatic figment of our imaginations?

I just looked it up and it was called 'Cross Stitch' on this side of the Atlantic. It won a RITA award! (Apparently that's a Romance fiction award.)