A long time ago I organized a swap in this group.  By long time I mean before 2006. We swapped black and coloured 12.5" blocks. I remember that I acted as swap hostess because I was back and forth to the US from Canada and was able to easily accomodate swappers from both countries without needing to worry about international postage. The swap was ( Read more... )

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I had the quilting done last week, but it took me a week to get around to sewing the back of the pillow on. The design in four taro leaves. This is all hand stitched in the Hawaiian style of quilting.


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Odd little question, but...

What do you all do with scraps of batting? Not the itty bitty little pieces, but bigger swaths that are maybe 6" wide? It doesn't seem prudent to join a bunch together to use in another quilt and yet it seems like such a waste to scrap them.

Suggestions? Or should I keep them to join together for another quilt?

I won two rosettes at the Scottish Quilt Championships! If you look at the top two projects here, the dinosaur quilt won second prize and the yellow wholecloth won Judge's Merit in the cot quilt category. I'm really thrilled.

That said, I was disappointed to see how few actual cot quilts were there. ( Read more... )

membership has temporarily been set to moderator approved only due to influx of spam accounts.

(I do not know when I became a maintainer of this community, but everything is getting spammed today on LJ. Anyone else who feels strongly about this is welcome to set it back.)

So not long ago I took a class in hand piecing and quilting, and I absolutely loved it. The class instructors knew I was planning a Dear Jane quilt and jokingly made a comment about making the Dear Jane by hand ( Read more... )

I've finally done the embroidery on the dinosaur quilt, finished that wall hanging that's a late Christmas present for my sister-in-sin, am painfully aware of when the exhibition is, and have no choice but to get on with designing the quilting. Here's the quilt top. At the moment, I am making some progress on the quilting lines, and thinking more ( Read more... )

Would any one be interested in me making a pokemon quilt?
I do want to make one but I would have to sell it, because a project like this would be a lot for me to undertake...
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I hope this makes some young Seattle Seahawks fan happier. This will be going to a group that gives quilts to kids going through a hard time. ( Photos behind the cut. )