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At 6:40pm on March 2, 2009, QuiltLady said…: Hi, Caroquilts.

I just saw your response to my comment about the machine quilting DVD's. If you search online for Patsy Thompson Designs Fast & Free, you should get to the right spot. I have the 0.5 volume 1, which is about 2 hrs. It is well-worth the money. I will be getting vol. 2 as soon as I can. Vol. 2 includes more machine quilting, plus a lesson on how to make an extension for the sewing machine surface from plexiglass. Since my husband has some power tools, he should be able to make it for me. (Watch the demos - they are good!)

Patsy's style is very slow, but that is what I need. I am not full of experience with machine quilting, so I need someone to show me the baby steps.

I used the DVD on the TV, because my laptop uses Vista and needed me to do a download in order to play DVD's. I just didn't want to invest the money in doing that. Anyway, I can see things larger on TV.

Hope Patsy Thompson's teaching can work out for you. Let me know!

At 4:51pm on February 20, 2009, Karen said…: Hi caroquilts,
Thanks for your nice comments about my asian quilt. This was a class project and I don't have a pattern for it. But the instructor had many Dover-like books with medallion shapes that she just enlarged to all be the same - the class got to choose which ones. Then we used fusible web and fussy cut each medallion, place it in the block and blanket stitched it down by machine with gold thread.

At 5:20am on February 20, 2009, Debbie Flatt said…: yes you do have me beat. When I lived in Georgia I used my living room for my quilting frame, it was the only room it would fit in. I had a nice large living room, miss that now, but the kitchen and dining area was smaller than I have now. I have more bedrooms plus a basement (which I have to insulate) where my quilting frame is now. I can not imagine having to share my sewing with my bedroom. It sounds like you did a good job on getting it together in one room.

At 3:25pm on February 19, 2009, Karen said…: Hi caroquilts,
I just noticed your question on the Long Beach Quilt Festival times. When we entered the event, they hadn't published the times yet, so it defaults to 1am. I think they will be posted more info shortly on their site: quilts.com. I'm going!

At 7:29pm on February 15, 2009, polkadot said…: carole, here is the link for the choc chip cookie dough brownies: http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2009/01/thaaank-you-betty.html

At 3:29am on February 9, 2009, Sunshine/Mi said…: Hi Carole.. believe it or not, that's what I was doing (laying blocks beside the inner block).. but what I had done with the first 'sashing'/border was the same mistake I did with the second ... I had added twice the width that I actually needed. But by the time I realized what I had done, I already had the second 'sashing'/border on and I wasn't about to go back and take out all that stitching! lol... It's working out, just not quite the way I had planned it.

At 8:21pm on February 8, 2009, Vicky Girten/MO said…: Hi, I used the pattern on CT freebies. The first one I made I followed the directions, but did not use a stablelizer on the handles. The last one I made I put a pocket on the front and lined it with canvas. I serged the handles with material and canvas. I made the handles on the second one to big, so I am thinking about taking them off and redoing them. They are fun to make. We are going on a trip the end of this month with 3 other couples and I am thinking about making one for each of the couples. Good luck and happy sewing.

At 2:44pm on February 8, 2009, martha said…: Wanted you to know, I'm thru w/ piecing the wedding ring quilts!!!! They really look good. Am having a chocolate sunday before dinner to celebrate.
Take care, martha

At 2:02pm on February 2, 2009, martha said…: Thanks so much for the spray basting info. You know, when you see something that looks too good to be true it's hard to believe. Will try it on the double wedding ring I just finish piecing. Have a great week! mart

At 7:20am on February 2, 2009, Arlene Parker said…: Hi Caroquilt - here are some web sites that you can check out for DVD's; one is a general site for lots of quilting needs and the others are specific to the quilter's DVD. kmquiltingsupply.com carries a great many DVDs as well as threads and everything else. Another DVD found here that is good is by Mindy Caspersen. Dawn Ramirez' site is www.pajamaquilter.com - highly recommend her DVD/workbook for any quilter, lots of designs and suggestions for practicing; www.homestitches.com is Pam Clarke's site; www.kimmyquilt.com is Kimmy Brunner's site and she has a wonderful beginners DVD which includes loading quilts and dealing with all those issues as well. Yes, you can play them on a computer if it has a DVD drive or a DVD player; I love being able to play them on my laptop.

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Las Vegas,Nevada

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I have been quilting since 1997, and took a class to show me how to handquilt, I loved it, and made a quilt all by hand, except for sewing the first side of the binding on. I still have it, and am very proud of it. I work 4 days a week, and as I have aged, the fingers don't work so well, and the eyesight isn't the greatest, so now I make lap and crib quilts for sale on my days off. I use my brother 1300 to do the quilting, and have done some simple patterns, and am learning new ones, as I go along. The quilts I make, I pretty much design myself, I like using multicolored thread a lot and let the quilt show me where and what I should do on it. I also like to use unusual fabric, and bright colors for the kids, and pretty and bold colors for the other quilts. I do use lights, darks and mediums in most of the quilts. This is the most relaxing thing that I do, and I really love it. I'm also the coordinator of a mini group on my side of town. There are many groups, and 2 quilt guilds in Las Vegas. I also have the handiquilter set up, it is the original set up, and I also use that for quilting. The most fun part is picking out the fabric, and quilting and finishing the quilt. I just hope that I can do this for a very long time. I love what I do! I also do some knitting and photography.

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quilting, hand quilting, machine quilting, knitting, other

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I have two cats, smidgen and earl grey, 2 females

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found the book

thanks ladies, for all the info for looking for my book, I actually went to amazon just looking for books on chenille, but did't have the name with me, so didn't find the book until I went back with the name, so I found that one and one more on chenille that looked interesting. I will receive them next week. I'm so glad that quilters are so helpful, I appreciate it.

Posted on August 22, 2009 at 12:01pm — 1 Comment

looking for a book

Hi everyone, haven't b een on for awhile, but have been busy sewing and quilting. I'm looking for a bookby NANETTE HOLMBERG CALLED TECHNIQUES FOR CREATING FAUX CHENILLE OR VARATIONS IN CHENILLE. I'm doing a project from the book, that someone in our mini-group gave us a class on, I think the book was published in 2004. I have looked in other venues, but have not found it. If anyone has a copy that they no longer want, and would like to sell it, Please contact me at carosyrup89128@yahoo.com, and… Continue

Posted on August 21, 2009 at 9:56pm — 4 Comments

circles

Hi mart, I'm so glad to see that you have finished with the wedding ring circles. I haven't tried circles yet, but it doesn't look too hard. i will have to try it out on a practice quilt. For sure I will have to use a pattern for that one. I'll have to look thru my stash to see just what I have. Thanks for the info.

Posted on February 8, 2009 at 6:26pm —

rainy day and red hats

well it has been raining all day in Las vegas, and we are supposed to have snow in the mountains, but I don't think it's quite cold enough. I just hate the rain, and gloomy days, can't seem to get anything done. I should have been working on my red hat quilt, but somehow have been at a standstill. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to quilt on the inside borders, but I woke up with this idea of quilting gloves around the outside of the quilt, and maybe some curly q's in-between the blocks, Then… Continue

Posted on February 7, 2009 at 3:50pm — 1 Comment

from caroquilts

Well it is a very nice day here in Las Vegas, sun is out and weather is around 70, I think our winter is over, and now we have to wait for maybe some rain, and some flash flooding, but hope that won't happen till march or april. thanks for all the input for my red hat quilt, I don't know why I didn't think of some of those things myself. Good tips, all of them. I just put a lamp together that my roomate bought, (he's not very good at putting things together), and it looks very nice. Now I can wo… Continue

Posted on February 2, 2009 at 10:55am —

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