Virtual Retreat Aug thru Dec 2015 Info on first post

[twiglet]

Hello Sue good to see you.

Yoo hoo Pamela
I saw your lovely quilt here it is with my friend Jane, I don't know what she's laughing at




and just look at this edging it's super



I've got some more pics to show you of the show but old man says dinners nearly ready so you'll have to be patient

ok I'll turn them round in a bit.

[lsdquilts]

I love your hand quilting- really makes this quilt special. Linda

[twiglet]

I bumped into Lorchen at the show. This photo may explain why you've not seen much of her recently :S


:lol: :lol:

Here we are excuse my ugly mug



this is Lorchens quilt


Lea McComas was showing as well and got third in pictorial quilts for this amazing quilt



My favourite quilt was this landscape, so effective and the colours are a lot brighter than my photo



There was a beautiful Sedona Star shown by Sandra Goff and Marian Mathews does anyone know them



and of course our Rosemary's miniature quilt which was commended

[Pemela]

Oh Wendy, here is the biggest cuddle ever, thank you SO much for the photo's! I realised after I had posted my quilt to the show, that I hadn't taken a photo, if my quilt had got lost I would have nothing to remember it by. Then you did this for me - you are a true STAR. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. I had no intention of entering this quilt in a competition but... I had watched a TQS show where Bonnie Browning was encouraging everyone to enter quilt shows, with the logic that there would not be quilt shows without quilts. I used Bonnie's analogy to encourage all my quilting friends to show their beautiful quilts in shows. After I had finished this quilt my friends told me I HAD to enter it in a show. The hardest part was thinking up a title for my quilt, as I had used patterns from Elizabethan pattern books for the applique I used the most obvious title. Wendy you are the nicest, truest friend anyone could have, you took time and effort for me and you have made my day. One day I may be able to do something wonderful for you, but until then THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Love Pam

[twiglet]

It's a pleasure Pam, I was so excited to find it and pleased it was hung so beautifully.

[rehak]

It's beautiful, Pam! And so are all of the others. Thanks for sharing, Wendy!! Always good to see your and Lorchen's smiling faces!

[Marianne-is-sewing]

Pamela, that is a wonderful quilt. Thank you very much, Wendy, for sharing photos from the show. Wish I could have gone - maybe next year

Marianne

[Marianne-is-sewing]

Marianne, the batik hexies are machine sewn. I rarely do any hand sewing except for the back of the binding and some occasional applique. My website is www.amc-quilts.com.

I had one of those days a couple weeks ago. I pinned the binding to the back on one of my wall hangings and was sewing in the ditch on the front, removing the pins before I got to them. Somehow I missed a pin and the head got stuck in the feed dogs. It was also in the fabric so there was no way to get it out without removing my seam guide which was taped to the extension table, the needle, the presser foot, and the stitch plate which had 2 screws, then putting it all back together. Then as I continued sewing I was repositioning and somehow another pin from somewhere else on the quilt back ended up under the needle!

Thank you for the link to your website. Wow I hadn't realised the hexies were machined together. They look tiny in the picture.
Ouch, your poor machine! Amazing that your machine wasn't hurt. Pins can be a pain in more ways than one :lol: Lucky that you can take your machine apart to reach the down into the inner workings.
Marianne

[anne1]

What wonderful photo's of the quilts, Pamela your quilt is lovely, what a thrill to see it hanging at the show.
I wasn't able to go this year but am determined to try next year.
Thanks Wendy for the great photo's and hopefully some other TQS members have taken some more.
Anne

[anne1]

Nice quilts Pam, Lorchen, and Rosemary!!! Love them :cheer:
Annis, thanks for the link to your website....I am going to try some of your patterns (when I get my projects I've got going finished..ha)
Have had company, so have been MIA trying to get caught up :blink:
Have a great day!!!
Dorothy

[anne1]

What a fun day you must have had Wendy. Beautiful quilts and fantastic friends. Thanks for sharing. Judy

[anne1]

Fun catching up after the weekend....

Geneva, that mug rug is darling! You always do such fun things!

Margarita, your quilt for your grandbaby and the wall hanging are both just lovely! Those bears are super fun, and I love the way you've done just the 2 fabrics to make that stunning candlelight wall hanging -- really lovely!

Marianne, your FMQ fruit sampler --- wow! Doesn't look like much of a break to me, at least, certainly doesn't seem rusty after the break. Very well done!

Pamela & Lorchen, beautiful quilts at the show!! So very fun, and thanks to Wendy for the pictures!

I've been busy playing with my *new to me* sewing machine!!! I had planned to upgrade this fall, hoping for a good sale at IQF Houston; my budget isn't enough for a really high-end machine, but I really wanted some basic features that I didn't have on my little Magnolia. So, shopped the Janome website to figure out how much it would cost to get the basics -- needle up/down button, more stitches, lock stitch button, adjustable needle position, adjustable presser foot pressure, reverse button instead of lever....really basic stuff, but none of that is on the Magnolia I have. Cost was going to be around $600 minimum.

Well....then my local quilt shop mentioned on Facebook that they had 2 pre-owned Memory Craft (a 3000 and a 3500) for sale, great working order. Hmmm. Looked those up, all the features I wanted, lots of features.....called on the price, only $250! Went over and spent the day test-driving (and fabric shopping...) and quite satisfied with how smooth the 3500 was, home it came with me. Told my husband it was the first time I'd ever gone to a fabric shop and saved him money (by not buying the $600 machine instead, LOL!). :lol:

Was originally sold as a brand new machine in 2004, via the same shop, recently returned as a trade-in so she could upgrade, and so now it's my upgrade yay! spent the weekend sewing, and it is lovely! Amazing how that needle down helps so much.

[twiglet]

Sounds a bargain Heather. Enjoy your upgrade

[twiglet]

To everyone that has hand dyed cloth in their stash, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS FROM ME,!!
I just put up a lengthy post about back staining, dye bleeding etc. On my blog
www.letscreatetoday.blogspot.com
Please take the time to go there and read it. If you follow the link to Vicki Welsh's blog you can read all of her experimentation notes.
I don't want anyone to have a project ruined due to my energy efficient washing machine. I doubt the company that made it would be concerned!!! Certainly not like I am!

Truly sorry for any inconvenience I've caused,
Luann

[JudithA]

Luann,
Thank you for sharing your dyeing knowledge and experience. It is invaluable help to me. Merci beaucoup!

Haven't posted much lately. (Grandsons spending part of their summer vacation with us.)

Judith