Mandy, Your kitty looks so much like my Mitzy who passed away a year and 1/2 ago at over 19 years old. I have a new kitty now, but I still miss my sweet Mitzy!

I have a new machine that's a Viking and it has 10" of arm length. It makes machine quilting so much easier (most machines are 7"). I think there are a few other manufacturers offering 9" or 10" of space. If you are in the market, check out the Viking Sapphire. It's an awesome machine! NA

Unfortuanetly no, I just have a Kenmore computerized machine Actually it is a nice machine, but it is hard to fluff and stuff a quilt this size through the opening. This is the first quilt of this size I have done completely on this machine, but I have done full size and smaller this way and I did finish my blazing star on it last year. I double checked last night and made sure I could get to the center of the quilt and while it is a tight fit it is not impossible. I don't go for all that rolling and clipping stuff, I just manhandle the thing through there as best I can. I am just doing a ditch quilting on this one since the signatures and pictures are the focus, so once I get the center rows in each direction done it gets easier to fit through as I can keep the bulk to my left. I am hoping that seeing me do this might convince my husband that I really NEED a long arm, or at the very least a mid-arm machine

Mandy, your quilt is beautiful and your kitty is precious. We've always had dogs. I love cats but my DH doesn't!! Good luck quilting it. Do you have a long arm? I don't like quilting a big one on my Bernina. Lap size is o.k. but no bigger for me.

Nancy in NC

If you check my profile you will find an updated picture of my DWR signature quilt. I does not show the photo appliques I added since Rj stole my camera for his buisness trip, but there is a cute one of my kitty Spooky on the quilt top while I prepared to baste. Spooky just will not stay off this quilt!!! Especially while I pin basted it yesterday. I had to do it on my living room floor and there was no way to possition it that it wasn't covering at least part of a heating vent, so there was constantly a flow of warm air up under the quilt making it really toasty, which was nice on a day there we had subzero wind chills outside. Spooky just came in and curled up right next to where the vent was and would not move When I got to that part of the quilt I kept having to pick her up and move her to get the pins in. Now I am off to machine quilt this monster.

WWOOWW!! Nancy, loved all of your quilts!! Damaris

I believe all of you have just as many unfinished projects as I do. I am working on the TQS BOM, finished January and February, and before March comes out, I need to get going on other stuff. I am in the middle of a stack-n-whack quilt for QOV (Quilts of Valor) sent to wounded service men and women. I have two QOV's ready to register and mail and two more in my head! I just finished a small quilt for my guild's annual challenge. I have two more Alzheimer's Priority Quilts for Ami Simms project that are ready for finishing. I am doing my LQS block of the month. I have a Harmonic Convergence pieced but not yet quilted and fabric for 2 more. Whew, I'm tired just writing about it all!!

If you'd like to see some of the things I HAVE finished, look here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ntrquilter

Nancy in NC

I got inspired by montanagramma's 4 patch posy and started a one block wonder.

I just finished a small wall hanging done in winding ways..(templates!!) and to my surprise, I'm actually hand quilting it!! yikes, I hope my sewing machine doesn't get jealous.

also just finished a quilt from the "square dance" book. it started as a basic trip around the world, then was cut into small wonky squares, which were rotated and added star points. it is an awesome looking tessellating pinwheel quilt. I took some progressive photos and as soon as my genius son retrieves my hardrive memory and reformats my ailing computer, I will try to create a blog...

I am almost finished with the January TQS BOM. My guild has a BOM that I just bought fabric for. he LQS also has a BOM that I decided to try because it was something different. For my daughter I have a queen size quilt top I am almost done with. I will baste and then machine quilt it. I have another needle turn applique project that I am working on. There is also another small wall hanging using a red toile that I hope to get done sooner than later.

Okay those are the things I jump between now. I know there are several other UFOs lurking in my closet. It is so difficult to say no with so many fun things to make.

Lorna

I'm working on the TQS BOM and the patterns and applique drawings for two Rhapsody quilts and many many french sewn collar orders which I hope to have finished by March 20 so i can go back to the fun stuff.

Dana in Olive Branch, MS

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I have a number of quilts in various stages of completion... QIVSOC... hummmm maybe a new acronym.. LOL.
I have 3 OBW quilts that are either ready to be sandwiched and quilted or only need the border added before finishing. I also have fabric for more OBW quilts that I have to cut out and start on.

I have an old project that I finally got around to finishing the piecing on, that just needs to be sandwiched.
I also have a 4 Patch Posie Supreme, that I need to add a small border to, then the focus fabric border, then that will be ready to be sandwiched.
I usually get my quilts to the point of the top being finished, but then stall at getting them layered and basted. I dread the thought of getting down on the floor to lay them out, and I don't have enough time off from work to go to my LQS to use their tables to layer and baste them. I read some where, possibly here, that taking them to a Long Arm quilter, and having them baste the quilt for you would be an option. So I'm seriously thinking about looking into that, if not having them quilt them for me also... that would give me more time to make more tops, which is the part I enjoy the most.
And I'm also working on some wall hangings that are 4 pineapple blocks, with the fabric placement creating a wreath. Those are going to be an ongoing project for awhile, something to work on when I want to quilt, but don't have a big project ready to go.

Diane in Colorado Springs

I am working on 2 wedding quilts (niece & nephew), 2 baby quilts for my first grandchild expected in 2 months, queen storm at sea quilt for a friend, round robin with my quilt guild, and a lone star together with some friends. That's just the active ones-- not the ones started and tucked away because I don't have time to work on them! What I would love to be working on is a rhapsody, and a bella bella. Maybe later on this year. . sigh!

I always have several things going: 2 BOM's, a Santa Sampler that I'm hand quilting- for my guild's show in May, piecing Alex's Bubblegun Dreams pattern with 30's fabrics - it will be called Salt Water Taffy. I'm cutting down my stash by making small (40 x 60) Project Linus quilts and am machine quilting them (8 so far). I also have a small pink stack n whack and a large basket BOM 30's quilt waiting for time and room to quilt. At a retreat in April, I plan on piecing 1 or 2 turning 20's, one in all batiks and one in red and black flannels (my son's HS graduation) and I've been collecting the fabrics for these. I also have to quilt a guild challenge quilt.

My big project lately is finishing a quilt for a friend of a friend. With her 50th birthday approaching(2 yrs. ago!), she handed out muslin squares to 30 friends and family members and then never had the nerve to put them together. All I have left is the quilting, binding, sleeve, and she wants to have a "reveal" party in March. I'll post a photo when it's done. It's been fun learning about this woman by seeing what her loved ones put on their blocks.

Oh my Oh my I have to many projects going :shock: I have never been able to work at just 1 project at a time so you cant be surprised to hear that i have: 3 single bed sized quilts for kids (Border needs to go on), 3 Chantelles needs binding and 2 needs quilting, 1 Rhapsody in progress (just the border to go on ), 1 kingsize quilt (square in a square) being pieced...and if i would be bothered to check I bet I have a few UFOs in my drawers