Lois, your house is charming!!! Maybe someday I'll make it there to see it in person! Until then, I'm looking forward to seeing the quilt you make! Hugs, Robin

Lambino, I'd be happy to post a photo but I don't have a very good one. I do have a nice one of the front porch. Maybe I should do a quilt of the porch. That might be architecture.

That's a beautiful GFG Lois. I'm really curious about your home, sounds like a really neat place. Would you mind posting a photo? or would that be getting too personal?

Very nice, Lois! I love GFGs. They have so much tradition behind them.
Nancy

Very pretty, Lois! Love your colours! I love GMFG.
It's wonderful to begin a project, but even better to *start* to finish it. As well, with the challenges coming up - the architectural one and the Whispering one, I think you may need that space on your design wall pretty soon. Then, apparently, you have 'another Laura Nownes" sampler on the go.

Oh, thank you Lois! That GFG is beautiful!! I love the color placement you've done there -- very pretty!

I'll look up those other threads; I have missed so much being gone a month!

You could check out Chinese Whispers in the Forum and find out more than you'd ever want to know about 10 TQS members (5 from Great Britain, Scottland, & Ireland and 5 from the good old USA) who have taken the Chinese Whisper Challenge to create a series of quilts to be exhibited in May of 2014 at Loch Lomond Quilt Show in Scotland. You may want to read a little bit about it but we tend to get a little carried away with it all and just carry-on a bit.

Laura Nowns gave a 6 wk course in TQS classrooms that was sort of a beginner sampler class and a bunch of us did it together and posted blocks, encouagement and info on different ways to construct those blocks as we went along. The class is finished but we are still finishing up our quilts. You can check out that thread too. Its the Laura Nowns Thread.

And I have nearly finished piecing a Gandmother's Flower Garden bedsize quilt using Gyleen Fitzgerald's (show #909) butterfly seams. I have all the blocks sewn together in rows and now I am sewing the rows together. Its taking up too much space on my design wall and I have been procrastinating because sewing the rows together is so much more tedious than sewing the blocks. But I've got to sew it as I take it down so I don't get the order all messed up. I did lots of sewing and riping today. I nearly completed an entire row when I discovered the blocks weren't lined up correctly.



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I so look forward to seeing/hearing about all of your ideas! I think this challenge is going to be really fun and a great way for me (all of us?) to grow as a quilter. All of the ideas mentioned so far sound so intriguing!!

Lois, what is the Whisper Quilt, Nowns Quilt, and GFG Quilt?

I keep thinking about this too. I have been wanting to make a quilted rendition of my home. It is such a lovely little house. People I don't know have rung my door bell to ask me the paint colors. I get compliments all the time from people I hardly know about how charming it is. I would love to do it so I have to read the challenge and think about it somemore. I am not due for the Whisper Challenge until next summer. I want to stay productive until then. I do work part time and I am beginning to consider that my other part time work is quilting. That does not mean I see a way to turn this work into something that yields financial remuneration, but then I am a few years past retirement age so I guess that's okay. I am working on my GFG quilt. It needs to come off the design wall and in order to make way for other WIP (work in progress). Its the Whisper Quilt and the Nowns quilt that has got me moving. Anyway I am thinking.

Do tell me your ideas when you come back.

I took pictures of doors in neiul-sur-mer in France a few years ago that I think are really interesting but it's probably been done to death in quilts, I know postcards show doors a lot. The designs and colours really spoke to me.

My other idea was some of the shapes I saw at the Olympics. Or Belper has some really interesting roofs.

Wendy, I am thinking of doing this one too. I have a couple of ideas floating round in the sawdust. Heading into Dublin tomorrow to take some photos of the thing/s I am thinking of.

Well it'll be a couple of weeks or so till I get it...
Was lucky enough to walk into the Bernina store at the right time last night (about 20 minutes before closing), and he'd only recently been informed by Bernina HQ that they have some of the 'training-machines' which they had used in the factory for the dealer training, for sale... They'll make a complete update, do a full service and get all the gadgets and bits updated to the latest versions, before it's ready to come home to mama.
Called 2 minutes after they opened the shop this morning to confirm my purchasing! And hoping to get an approximate pick-up date tomorrow (although silly me had said that there's no hurry, silly silly me). Anyway, if he comes back to say that they've no more machines available, this me is going to have one heck of a snit-fit... Naaaa they can't all be gone that quick, though he didn't know how many machines were actually available...
And me buying a new machine at this time of the year, when I have my heaviest workload till early/mid December...
Oh but I'm sooooooooo happy
Sorry folks, will now shut up!

lotti wrote:
Oh how true that is!!! And congratulations, Lotti, on your new baby!! While you're learning what all it can do, you can make small quilts for all your presents. Tell all your nieces and nephews to guard them carefully because when you become a rich and famous quilter, these little quilts will be valuable

Missed that Lotti you got a new toy