Yesterday (18th) I worked on Grandma and she is coming along. She still needs a few more tweeks on fabric placement. Hopefully I will get it right today and also work on the bed quilt. We are counting down on the last days of school and I hope to get some things accomplished before Tuesday. Once I get the fabrics down, i'll post a photo in my profile for oppinions. Cheryl

June 18th

I am planning on working on a quilt each evening for an hour. I get home at 6 pm and lay down and take a short hours nap then I have energy to do some work... I tried skipping the nap but then I can not see straight. My hubby works second shift and I work days so this lets me stay up long enough to get some work done.

Last night I squared up my quilt getting ready to sew a small border ...... I am having trouble deciding the size of this boarder.

Thanks for the info. Judy in AZ

Corection to links

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DJRetreats/

Tilde is a lady from the Neatherlands who joined the Dear Jane on line quilting list and would encourage everyone to sew just one thread/ needle a day to keep up their progress with their quilting.

She was always helpful with others to keep them sewing when they were discouraged and often gave wonderful advise about various sewing problems.

A TILDE THREAD became known as just sewing a little bit everyday ... progress will be made on our quilts. Over time TILDE stood for persaverence in our stitching. We would post our progress until the quilt was done.


Tide and many of the former list members now write and belong to on YAHOO GROUPS... these are opened to anyone who wants to join.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WIProducers/

works in progress And


[[url]size=18]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DJRetreats/


Linda Franz of Quilted Diamond fame is the moderator for the DJ and Diamond Group

Frances, I'm sorry to hear about your friend. How nice it will be for her to get the quilt with her friend's signatures. HOW do you stand that kind of heat!!! It would kill me.
Karen

Today I didn't get any dyeing done like I was hoping. That is probably going to wait until next week. I did get sewing done. I went to my LQS store today to get backing for a quilt. And I spent about an hour and 20 minutes sewing blocks together and pressing the backing after it was washed. I'm working on a quilt I wish I didn't have to make. It's a Rail Fence Quilt where the center rail is white fabric. This quilt is a signature quilt for a friend of mine who has multiple myeloma. The white fabric is for friends to sign. I'm hoping to have it done by Thursday. I spent a lot of time today running errands, don't really have any errands in mind for tomorrow so I should be able to spend more time tomorrow working on this quilt.
Frances who was out in the 101 heat today.

Just wondering was TILDA stands for. Thanks. Judy in AZ

Yesterday I was able to spend a couple more hours working on the bed quilt and got a few more blocks quilted. THere are probably about 6 more blocks to quilt, then I have a 2 inch border waiting for a double wavy line and a larger border about 8" wide. Oh and there is a section at each end that has a saw tooth strip that goes from one side to the other. THis is a queen size quilt.

Patti, I have bought another shade of fabric and hope it will work. Then I have to find thread to match. that is going to be another challenge. In the mean time Grandma is staring at me while I work on the bed quilt. Actually a portion on grandma. She almost looks like a Picaso with half a face. Not very flattering. But maybe today will be the day I work on her. You are gallery 9? I'd love to see how the little guy is coming along.

Cheryl I know what you mean about all the little bits of fabric discarded. I think that's part of my own intimidation. I'm getting thru it though because I REALLY want this. But that hinders me more and paralizes my progress. I hope I have something to post soon.

I am making a 14in cushion cover for a friend's 80th it has heirloom free motion quilting of a heart in the centre with diagonal grids inside it and stipple quilting outside the heart shape (which was 1 of the reasons i wanted to make this cover to practice free motion quilting) and 125 pearl beads that were attached by hand. so today i put the cording on around the edge and put the zipper in the back of the cover hopefully on Wednesday i will be able to sew both pieces together and it will be completed.
Jenny in Oz

Today I was able to get some quilting done on the bed quilt. I was at the machine for a couple hours with only a few interuptions. Mostly from the cat sneaking under the bunched up quilt. I turn my head for a second and she would burrow right in. All in all I was able to get some free motion done around 4 blocks. Now I have to get ready for a neighborhood Fathers day picnic that is going to be inside due to weather. Hope everyone else is having a great Fathers Day.

I am making a quilted jacket for my mother. This involves sewing a million 41/2inch blocks together (I guess it only feels like a million) (boooorrrrring). Anyway I worked on it yesterday and finished all the rows and got almost half of the rows sewn together. WoooHooo. At least now it feels like I'm getting somewhere. While I was doing that, I got yards and yards of fabric washed and dried. So yesterday was really productive. Thanks Ladyrags for the thread. Gloria

PattiSure wrote:
Hi Patti,
Yes thats me. Marilyn suggested a touch lighter on the darker fabrics, and I thought I had gotten it. But I am still not happy with her. So this is my tilda fo the day. not actual sewing but cutting and trying out different shades. I can't help but think of all the waisted fabric on the floor. I am siriously considering natural skin tones, but that means waiting on an order. I have also done the practice free motion. That was a lot of fun. I think It was neat with the free motion zig zag.