Bummer...... I ran out of fabric for my setting triangles.. that is what happens when I make changes in block size..... I hope to pick some up today between doctor and dentist appointments. Running running running today...

In the meantime I am working on putting on sashing on my stain glass project. I had so wanted to get my card trick blocks sewn into rows.... BUMMER.

Well, yesterday, I managed to put the bindings on the tablerunners that I have been working on, I use sharon schamber's way of putting on the binding, sew maybe today I can sew by machine, then I can at night hand stitch the back. Boy, I do have alot of hand stitchin to do :shock: .
Putin on some more xmas quilts for one client, all set ready to go.
Hope everyone holds a needle today. Debbie

:shock: Do you have these kind of weekends?- you plan and absolutely nothing you planned works out. Well, let's see if today does work.
Friday, I got to put the binding on my freinds wedding quilt, so this evening maybe I can start stitching it, I have to make label for it, I will do some machine embroidery on it .
Well, today is the day I will start back to work, after the month from, well you know what I mean.
Well keep stitchin everyone Debbie

I went to a mystery quilt class on Friday night and made blocks for a lap size quilt. The block pattern turned out to be a fast strip piecing / assembly line sewing technique for the block, CARD TRICKS/ WINNING HAND. I had such fun doing this block and this technique.

Things I learned in the class....
How to strip piece and sub cut sets for the same block.

How to assembly line sew a number of the same block.

Prior to this I had always made sampler block quilts or a type of quilt that had to be put together one block at a time.... I just realized that this is the reason I had so few of quilts completed. Doing one block at a time is not efficient. Today I am putting on the borders and sashing to my little quilt .... this will be a quilt for my grand son.

Have fun quilting

Lady Rags.

Yesterday, I finished getting the materials together for the round robin. This will be a first for me so I hope that it will be a fun experience.

At my small Guild today, I got all my parts cut out for the October BOM.
Still have to make the center circles for the flowers. Feel good about what I accomplished

Margarita in Auburn, CA

Yesterday at my weekly sewing group, I worked on my DJ doing reverse applique and finished another block AND I finally picked out fabric for my Jan BOM and cut out the pieces of freezer paper and ironed them onto the fabric for needle turn. I am doing them on black and finally got my Michael Miller jet black. I feel like I might actually get started and become one of you. I know I am way behind, but, hey, I started. Maybe I will take needle in hand today, who knows? I also ordered the gingerbread boys from Sue Garmann's website. Another one that will take me forever to do.
Judy in AZ where today is the last day of 100 temps until next year, so they say

Well, I am back, been a tough 3 weeks. I put my wedding gift on the rack yesterday, got it quilted. Will try to take a picture put on the web soon. Hopefully life will get back to a new normal Glad to see this thread doesn't end, keeping me sane. Thank you Debbie

Made the trade-ruler rack for a quilt. I posted pics in my blog. Annette and I are both very happy!

I haven't done any sewing since last week. We went and saw Savannah on Saturday and boy is she pretty. I have put a photo in my profile. Today I will get back to work on Kyles Orca quilt and my bed quilt that was put on the back burner. Hope veryone had a wonderful weekend. Cheryl

LadyRags you crack me up with your "Design Floor." Right now I have a Design Pizza Box!

I had a great day yesterday! I made a mock of a lone star quilt that I want to start and I gathered the materials for our guilds round robin that I want to do this year. I'm making progress on the projects!

It is so good to see so many quilters celebrating their progress in their quilting.

At my retreat yesterday, I worked on a quilt I started two years ago but had to put away when LIFE GOT IN MY WAY... BIG TIME.


I had to laugh at the workman-ship issues arrising from my previous work... not a single seam was straight, Iwobbled all over the place. I do not think I knew what a quarter inch seam or scant quarter was....

So I had to struggle with my poor workmanship. I resewed what seams I could to straighten them and repressed each block. Luckily I made all the blocks oversize so I can square them up without the pattern suffering. It is just a square in a square and quarter triangle pattern.

The pattern is VENICIAN STAIN GLASS the part I can not fix is the sashing between the blocks and the way the squares were put together some of them are just not square in construction. It is too late to fix them now and I am not going to remake 60 squares... If you look at a real STAIN GLASS window they are not very square either.

I am currently trying to decide if I should OFF SET MY BLOCKS and make each row staggered.
OR
Should I line them up row by row as in the original pattern. I have really neat black on black material I can use at the ends of the row to offset the rows... I am dying to use that fabric somewhere and this would be the ideal place for it.

I am going to post pictures of the settings
( ON the Design Floor ) when I get that far. I have to try and get some sashing on the block.


Not sure if I will get to the point today of any sewing... the house is a wreck and we have to go to the grocery store.

Yesterday, I went to the NW Quilting Expo with members from my small group. It was fun and we all were inspired. Today, I made a block for the guild president. There is one fabric that doesn't show well enough so I am considering taking it apart and fixing that area. I am also auditioning fabrics for a lone star quilt that I want to make.

Terry