Chinese Whispers

[Lorna1021]

Rita your quilt is gorgeous! Great work.

[Lorna1021]

Nancy, congrats on finishing "the quilt", and ahead of time. Very impressive. I'm sure is gorgeous, too bad we have to wait a year befor we can see it. :roll:

Renata, bouna fortuna! With your marvelous sense of design and color, I'm sure you'll come up with a gorgeous pice. Can't wait to see it! Ok, about a year or so :roll: , but so looking forward to it.

[Lorna1021]

Rita, what a fun and awesome quilt. Love the bright happy colors and the quilting is fantastic. The back is just as great as the front. Lucky niece, do you think your sister/brother would want to adopt me? :wink:

[lotti]

Fabulous quilt, she's going to love it! Beautiful, bright & happy! :P

[Zarah]

Norma that was not my first time with the Procion dyes but I have only started to use them recently. Up to then I was just using Dylon pre-mixed dyes. It's a whole different ball-game when you have to mix the colours yourself, as you know. But I do enjoy doing it.

I remembered you talking about the Dylon. Glad that you have discovered the MX'ers. It's so much fun to use them.
I know Rosemary recommends the Egyptian cotton from Empress Mills in UK. They sell them in small and big pieces and by the meter as well. They are very wide and takes the color well. They have thread count 440 but I find that they are easy to stitch at least on the machine.

Marilyn you are right. You never know how a sheet will take the color. I recently threw pieces of an old sheet into my dye baths and I got very light colors from that. I know the fibers are cotton but they had been treated with some nano technology to make them smooth. It has been my favorite sheet for years because it felt like silk but it was worn out so I wanted to use the good parts of it for projects.

[Renata]

Late yesterday afternoon, FedEx delivered Nancy's Chinese Whispers quilt to my house. All I'll say is it is gorgeous and my imagination is going wild with it! 8) So the clock started ticking at the crack of dawn this morning and I probably won't come up for air very much over the next 50-52 days or so. :roll: So intense! :lol: I received a photo of Nancy's quilt late last week and it did not do justice to the real thing, but it did allow me to start thinking about what her quilt might be "saying" to me. And believe me, it is "talking"! Shhhhhhh… I better get to work! :lol:

[loise98]

Good luck, Renata! Enjoy!

[twiglet]

Enjoy it Renata. Can you post a pic so we can advice you :lol:

[idaho]

:mrgreen: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Nice try~ Wendy !

[idaho]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Oh, Wendy! You're the best when it comes to teasing. :lol: :lol: :lol:


Great news Renata. Just enjoy and have fun with it. You sure will come up with a gorgeous quilt. Andate avanti, cara amica! Farete un bel capolavoro! (Go ahead, dear friend! You will make a beautiful masterpiece!)

[lotti]

Have fun with it... Enjoy yourself and the result will reflect that joy!

[Renata]

Oh Wendy... I wish I could! But I'll just have to suffer alone... :cry: Thanks for the encouragement y'all, though, I do need it! :lol:

I'm not feeling forlorn yet... but I'm sure I'll encounter a moment or two of desperation. Right now, I am just very happy and fearless... sure that won't last for long... Well, it's still day one! :lol:

[Renata]

Late yesterday afternoon, FedEx delivered Nancy's Chinese Whispers quilt to my house. All I'll say is it is gorgeous and my imagination is going wild with it! 8) So the clock started ticking at the crack of dawn this morning and I probably won't come up for air very much over the next 50-52 days or so. :roll: So intense! :lol: I received a photo of Nancy's quilt late last week and it did not do justice to the real thing, but it did allow me to start thinking about what her quilt might be "saying" to me. And believe me, it is "talking"! Shhhhhhh… I better get to work! :lol:

Prepare for action stations! Stand by to repel borders! Dive! Dive! Dive!

[Reetzbobeetz]

Oh Wendy... I wish I could! But I'll just have to suffer alone... :cry: Thanks for the encouragement y'all, though, I do need it! :lol:

I'm not feeling forlorn yet... but I'm sure I'll encounter a moment or two of desperation. Right now, I am just very happy and fearless... sure that won't last for long... Well, it's still day one! :lol:

Good luck Renata - I know you have it in you. And remember, it's a new day everyday!

[Lorna1021]

Have fun, Renata. Let those creative juices flow!