Limbania - great stars, and wonderful tip about using those rulers, I have the Easy angle ruler, but not the Companion angle ruler - Hey Marianne, between us we should be ok, and we are both in the same country!

Rita - a great looking quilt top, and the log cabins are great in the outer corners

BJ - love your new bag, and the extension idea is a good one Just hope you can pick it up once it is filled with goodies....

I was working on my sashing yesterday for the mini's in the centre - aagggh! there is no ease available at that size, what so ever.... I have managed to cut all my green border(s) pieces, without any major problems - phew, but think that I will just run short of the white background fabric - fortunately I know that I will be able to get more from Empress Mills, but it is really frustrating to not be able to get all the pieces cut & ready to stitch.

Back at school this week and the sun has been splitting the trees since it opened...

You are all creating amazing things. It's hard to catch up with everything. I appreciate that you are all sharing

Annis and Rita ,Such beautiful colors and quilts.Looking forward to seeing your wonderful quilting too. BJ I hope you have a great time at the show and stuff that beautiful bag full of goodies.

Thanks Nancy and BJ. I really don't know what to do for the quilting but I think the borders are saying 'feathers' to me. Scary. :shock: I should probably do that Cindy Needham class on craftsy.com first though.

BJ your tote bag is fabulous. I love the extendible top - you will need that extension I am sure.

BJ - Love your bag! The colors are wonderful. I love making bags, but have so many other projects that I haven't made one for a while. I hope you'll share your loot with us, too!

Nancy

Rita, your quilt is fabulous! You all are making it hard to keep up, and I'm not going to finish my quilt until after the Philly show next week, but I did finish my all scrap tote bag (so I have something to haul my loot back home with. ) Here's one view of it with the extender top tucked in:

And here is the other side with the extender pulled up
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I got the idea from Nancy Zieman's "Innovative Bags and Totes". I'm going to have to make my DIL one after I get back.

Limbania - Your blocks look perfect! I love the centers!

Rita - Wow!! Your quilt is so beautiful! I love the colors. They are so pretty and soothing. Can't wait to see the quilting!!

Nancy

Thanks ladies. Lois we are having our summer now, beautiful sunny skies for the past week and lovely temperature too 20ºC+. I had thought I would put a green border on the quilt - it's just as well I didn't have enough fabric to do it.

You're right Lois it's beautiful

Rita, Your quilt is lovely. Even though you had a cool, cloudy and very damp summer you managed to get lots of warmth and sunshine into that quilt.

Oh, Rita, that is so beautiful! The hand-dyed border is so perfect for this quilt! I don't think you even need the piping. The border tells it all! Can't wait to see what you do with the quilting.

I put my final borders on my sampler last night. I would have liked to do a piped trim in the sage green but I didn't have enough fabric left so I put a very thin border in instead (1/4" finished size). The orange border fabric is one of the dyes I did myself and I am delighted to have found a use for it. I even managed to use up the log cabin blocks that I didn't put into the body of the quilt. DH thinks it's the most beautiful quilt I ever made! :shock: (I have just realized that it is in the colours his mother loved, completely unconsciously on my part. ) Now to figure out how to quilt it.

Thanks TQS for making this available. And thanks Laura Nownes for putting the classes together. I really enjoyed it, and everybody's companionship.

Beautiful stars Limbania, so perfect! And thanks for the tips about the rulers. I think I have both of those rulers but never thought to use them that way. Even with the Eleanor Burns flying geese ruler I still didn't get my points perfect so maybe I will try the two rulers next time.

Looking good, Limbania!