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I finished making my Lap Quilt, so Now I am ready to sow spring..

It did make the LONG winter days shorter.

dodge

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2186/12890952/23013060/383611795.jpg

very pretty. You're one talented person. I don't know how to quilt.

Hey I dont know how either..........It is just a quick one . I BOught the pattern(template) bugger cost $10. an had no instruction for doing it. But I like it .

Thanks.........
Probably no one sews on here,
dodge

I really like the colors. I don't even have a sewing machine. Can I borrow yours? I'll bet it's nice when you come in from the snow to have that to throw across your legs.

I love it!

Thanks Chermoni,

I was able to make that with stuff I already had here.
Suprised me I had it all .LOL

dodge

Beautiful quilt Barb....

Did you do the star as an applique? or is it sewed into the surrounding block?

I made the Swirl first an used the machine to put it on a block before it was all sewed together .

last nite I tacked each Swirl in the center. Putting tiny buttons there.
I want to enlarge the pattern an use some bright material for fun.

Do you want the Stencile ( pattern) to try it .
They are actually to be done by hand the whole quilt .

dodge

Your quilt ia very nice. I reaaly like the swirls. I have 3 or 4 quilt tops that need to be quilted but not gotten around to it.

Well thank you Jayhawk.......

Being such a lousy winter I took the job on to keep from going bananas.
Show us your tops ..

Thanks again for looking .

dodge

I love your lap quilt, barb--it is very pretty. I cant believe that yo uhave never done it before---and to not have directions either--




I think you are wrong there---I know Tamara sews, and Jayhawk sews, and I sew---(Just got a newer singer sewing machine a few weeks ago, as my Golden Touch & Sew has a loose tension that I cannot get fixed, try as I might.)

and then many of then crochet & knit too.

'also----I quilt---and this thread may well make me resume my 12 square sampler quilt. It is a quilt as you go quilt. I have all of the pieces for each square cut out, and the side pieces ripped to size.--and ta da I have 6 of the 12 squares quilted. the problem is that the lady I took my class from didnt get the templates in soon enough so she made us all ours off of hers so we could start--well she did it wrong & now my 2 ft squares are 1/2 inch off instead of 1/4 inch (which is the allowed amount for everything to work.) now the 1/2 would have been ok if I would have left it alone. But I thought it was me doing something wrong so I kept adjusting each square. well the 6th one was a 9 patch and it looks rediculous so I got frustrated & stopped.

I really must begin again.

Then there is my 60 inch tree skirts that I have made. I made one for me and one for each of my girls. They are all hand done.---well the tops and the quilting are hand done. of course I joined the top/fill and the back on the machine.

I made one for my mom & my MIL also, but I bought pre-quilted material for the tops of them.

There are so many talented people on this forum. I wish we lived closer together so you guys could teach me a thing or two. I would even get my sewing machine out from under the cabinet in the laundry room at my ex's house.

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now that is saying a LOT----

I can help you think it out if you want to start one.
I had no pattern at all for this one I made.
Bought the stencil an began.

Just make the squares all the same size n do what ever you like.

I had extra squares, so I am covering my living room pillows with it .
That is hand sewing an I dont like the job.

I crochet also .. Knitted some an forgot how.

Keep sewing girls ..

my dil taught herself .. Got a fancy machine that college was getting rid of .

dodge

you'd have to come visit to teach me dodge.

LOL

We learnt lots this winter.

b

a few days ago I got a phone cal from my youngest DD. She said mom I know what I want for my birthday.
Well what she wants is for me to take a number of her DH's old shirts (I think his old navy shirts) & make a quilt top. well, then, "gee" if I want to I can quilt it. The size you ask ??? That is up to me....

2 things:

1) this child hardly ever asks anything of me.
2) her B/D is April 25th.


what to do--what to do---

You may have to make it for Christmas, Carol. But that would be neat. I am sending all of Johns jeans and flannel shirts to a friend who is making them into a quilt for Jonni. I thought that would be a cuddly memory.

First cut them into squares. 10 inch or 8 inch
Cut out designs and sew them on the s quares, or Letters of the alphabet.

Or number s

Or take valentine hearts an make hearts all over the squares.I will show you one that I won .. I helped make it .. If it will help .

Flowerpots was the motto.

dodge

I am not too worried about how to make the top, I can do that.

What I am concerned about is making it into a "blanket" as she called it.

I really think I will make the top & have one of the local churches quilt it for me.

I buy the batting & the back piece & then I am good to go !!!

but it will have to be a Christmas gift, as Tina says, I am sure of that.

yOUR CHOICE.......
I AM AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER..

D

well show me what ya got & I will see--perhaps I will change my mind.....

Here it is .. Hangs on the wall here beside me.

b

That very pretty and rustic, Dodge.

Thanks Tina,

There were 7 people making squares an we sent the blocks to a lady who started it .. In florida.
She did the rest .

I won it .

The ones who entered got a chance to win.. Only 7 of us

dodge

each person signed their name on each block.. It was our winter pleasure.