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Comment by Cottonwood Quilter on October 2, 2009 at 5:11am

Have been watching this group for quite a while, since it is like the "Love of Art" quilts. I do love all the projects you members have done, now what are you working on?
Royce, good to see you here, if I remember right you dyed some orange fabric, I may need to borrow some for my "Butterfly Quilt".

Comment by Deborah Calyo on September 6, 2009 at 1:52pm

Thank you.

Comment by Joanne Payling on September 6, 2009 at 1:49pm

Welcome, Deborah. We seem to be a quiet group here, but this IS a good way to see who else is making smaller quilts. I sure enjoyed looking through your photos.

Comment by Deborah Calyo on September 6, 2009 at 1:18pm

Hi, all. May I join you? Just about every quilt I've made is wall size or less. I've got pix on my page. I just don't have the time or space for a ton of bed size quilts. Besides, the thought of spending all that time and effort (not to mention $$) into making a quilt that our dog will jump up on sends shivers down my spine!

Comment by Ruthann on August 14, 2009 at 1:12pm

just joined, have made 7 wallhangings and are posted on my page--
fish one-fall trees-summer trees-red, white black dress shop- loons-rainbow with animals -etc...
am now working on another one, these small ones are fun.

Comment by Joanne Payling on July 24, 2009 at 11:28am

Thanks, Royce and Gwen. And yes, Gwen, I 'steam a seamed' the letters on, just as I would an applique piece. The cool part, to me, is the variety of fonts available on the web. I googled free fonts, found a good website, then looked through all the fonts they had, til I found what I considered the 'perfect' one for this project. Then, download the font, type your names in Word, print, and you have your 'pattern/template' for the steam a seam and fabric. Very easy and the possibilities are endless. Thanks for commenting!

Comment by Gwen/OH on July 24, 2009 at 6:02am

Joanne~
I ditto Royce...wonderful pieces from Santa to the stockings! Bethlehem Star really makes the project 'pop'!
Gwen

Comment by Royce Vaughn on July 24, 2009 at 4:15am

Oh Joanne these are beautiful. The wall hanging is a lot of work but very nice. I love the antlers on the deers. The stockings are very nice. How did you do the lettering? Cut out and press on with something like steam-a-seam? You lettering looks great. I tried to make some stockings and they were "limp". I guess I should have put interfacing or quilted them. Live and learn.

Comment by Joanne Payling on July 22, 2009 at 2:55pm

Here are two Christmas projects I've done. Extended family members loved the stockings so much they put in orders for their families for this Christmas. A fun, easy, personalized gift and a winner! The Santa Time wall hanging is strictly for my family. It was tons of work for me since I was learning machine applique at the time. But worth it. I love this pattern, which I personalized by adding the Star of Bethlehem to it.

Comment by Betty LaFara on July 22, 2009 at 1:36pm

I have a couple of Xmas hangings on my site. I have been making ornaments for years and I find that the people I give them to treasure them for years. I have also made some tiny Xmas quilts that will fit into a 7x9 mailing envelope that have received good response.
I haven't added anything to my site for sometime, prehaps I will take time from my current project and copy some of those I still have samples of to my site.

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