Just got a pattern to make a quilt for my brother who is going to have surgery to remove a mass on his kidney. As big sister, I am still conditioned to take care of my little brother, and as I will not be there when he is recovering I am making him this, so he knows that I am always there for him, even when physically I am not.
Thanks to LadyRags, I bought the Mad for Plaid and the Argyle patterns from Humblebee Quilt Works and he chose the Mad for Plaid. Now I need to shop for material (o, darn ) he wants batiks (another o, darn!) grey and burgandy. Grey is relatively easy to find locally, but there just aren't that many burgandy batiks, even on the web. Looks like a road trip (o, hardship )
Anyway, this is one of the projects I am currently working on.

Jean in Windsor, ON

Glad you got the fabric! And glad your daughter is better!

Maggie

A couple of finishing there! Well done both.

I have a beginning!!

Thanks to the hugest generosity of a member of the forum, I am the proud owner of a set of Alex's Whisperings!!! I can't tell you how grateful I am!! They are lovely and delicious in colour and pattern and I just want to put them into something scrummy! I also want to just admire them for a bit but that gives me time to think of something perfect to use them in.

This forum is great and I am eternally grateful to you, M, for thinking of me.

I got the binding sewn on a small handquilted wholecloth quilt--just a few more stitches to go! Another UFO conquered!!! Judy in Torrance

I finished my August BOM Border Stars and being posted on Show and Tell BOM.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

Thanks, Amo! As a farmer's daughter, I am always looking to see what is being grown. When I get to England (and I assure you that it is on my list of places to get to) I will look you up!

Maggie

Hi Maggie. We have oats, wheat and barley but with the amount of rain we have been having most summers a lot of it has been downgraded to animal fodder and the price of bread is quite high. Opposite us we had oilseed rape and linseed, mainly grown now for bio oil. If you ever come to England, come in May and June! We turn the most vivid yellow you can think of with the oil seed rape flower and the odd dotted field of blue linseed. It really is quite bright! All the fields are striped patchwork now. Crops still waiting, crops that have come off and some ploughed and here that means anything from brown loam to glistening white chalk!!

I did my first QU block last night and I also joined another class. That one starts Thursday. Tomorrow I have the carpet fitters in, it's my Guild meet AND OH's birthday. Today I have to clear my sewing room. But first I have my back manipulation with my friend, the wonderful Fiona, who always puts everything right that I have put wrong crouching over the sewing machine or in the garden!

Amo, what crops are they harvesting at this time in England? Our main crops here in E. Central Illinois are soybeans and corn, and they will be at least another month before harvest.

Maggie in E. central Illinois

Should be no challenge LadyRags!! Red Dwarf has a huge following over here, (even I have the DVDs, well OH does ) and there should be plenty on-line to figure out what to do.

We've had the combine's in the fields behind us all last week and last night they were in the fields in the front until gone 3am. Yes it's stopped raining and the crops are dry enough to bring in. I wonder what these farmers do to relax. Their life seems full of waiting one minute and then it goes manic with ploughing, sowing and harvesting and it's all reliant on Mother Nature. I have been in my sewing room until late most nights with the windows open listening to the thrum, thrum of the reapers and bailers and have found it quite therapeutic.

Today they were still at it and I was wondering what project to start next also what project to perhaps finish!! The farmer's dedication to do things now almost prompts reflection!!

My DH said he wants a good quilt for his bed and then one for kicks... a RED Dwarf throw. This is the first time he had asked for any type of quilt so I am going to try and come up with something he would like.

I know the RED DWARF was a TV series he use to watch.... while I did other things... never saw it myself... now I have to find out what their logo is and more about it so that I can make him some kind of throw for Christmas.

This is going to be some challenge.

Yeah! I finished and posted my kaleidoscope quilt yesterday. I haven't done that much ripping in a long time. I kept changing my mind on the border and binding. FINALLY made a decision. Now on to quilt my 2008 TQS BOM. Deadline is coming for the local quilt show. But grandson is visiting for the week so not sure how much quilting I will get done.

I got one word embroidered today. "Believe". Boy the capital letters take a lot of time. They have a lot of curves in them. It's going to be a 13 hour day tomorrow so I should get more done.

Well, I thought it is time to get back to work on the BOM border stars for this month. Have 2 done and 2 to go. I have been working on other things, getting some UFO's finished I hope? making a little progress. And also working on my eventual studio. Slow work, on this front.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

Hope you're going somewhere with finding a new stove Lady Rags! Sorry I can't help you with suggestions from over here.

Today we, and that is a royal we, went to the Wessex Quilters Guild '30 years and sew on...' exhibition in Winchester. It was a really nice show with plenty of styles over the years, one or two had a bit of a giggle factor and others quite a wow one. OH was brave enough to come in with me, it was quite quiet early on, and he was quite impressed too. I now have an idea of the type of thing he likes which is quite similar to mine, thank goodness, so now he's dropping hints again about one for our bed.

At dinner this evening we were talking about the different styles and standards and how much it's all changed in a few years and he said the most wonderful thing. He told me he thought that my work was up there with the best of what we saw today and he was very proud of me. :shock: I haven't done that much for him to see and this was his first largish showing of quilts. I guess he's just slightly biased but I was still rather flattered.

I also joined up for my first Quilt Uni course today.

Now I have a date with Bob. OH is parked in front of Indiana Jones and all is at peace.