qubee quilts

I was perusing the lasted issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine and look what I found. Ginger's Flower Garden Designed by Keri Duke and Ginger White. I think I might just have to make myself one. It's quick, easy, fun and would look great above my TV in the living room. I like the fact that the designer used her embroidery machine to quilt it. Just one more reason why I need to get an embroidery machine. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

I thought I would share with you my BOM (block of the month) that I had made to teach in a class. Each block will teach you different quilting techniques. I am enclosing the total amount of fabric need for the below pictured quilt messaging 69 x75. A great lap size quilt. Great for the beginning quilter or someone looking for a fun project or even a gift. If you need or want the quilt larger you may e-mail or leave a comment and I can help you with that too. 5 total colors plus background and border fabric. Background Fabric (white): 2 yards Color 1 (green): 1/2 yard Color 2 (red): 1 3/8 yard Color 3 (yellow): 1/2 yard Color 4 (orange): 3/8 yard Color 5 (blue): 1 1/8 yard Outer border(multi): 2 yards Its always safe to buy more fabric than you need than to run out. You never know when someone might make a mistake. We are human after all. I will post blocks every so often and in no time at all we will have a finished quilt.

I got an iron back this week and look what they sent me. Does not look a thing like the one I sent them. (Look back a few post to see the one I sent them.) It does not have half of the features the other has. I was PISSED. I called them up and after being on the phone for 20 minutes I get to keep the above iron and they are sending me a new iron that is one step below the one I had because they no longer make mine. Could it be because it keeps telling you to clean it every two hours? The new one should be in the first of next week. I will do a picture update on the green pinwheel quilt this weekend. I have all but 2 of the blocks sewn together. I would say I am about 60 percent done.

Binding: the fabric th at's used to cover the raw edges of a quilt after it's quilted . I was asked if I could share some of my "best practices" about machine binding. Thought I would share them with all my reader s. Never know when you might just learn something from the one who thinks he is mister know-it-all. Is it getting deep in here? :-) If I have to put binding on anything I always do it by machine. I nev er do it by hand (which it typically is). Hand is a four letter word tha t I do not like and have never learned. I like to use polyester monofilament thread often called clear or invisible thread m ost monofilament thread is made of nylon, not polyester, and is the sam e substance used in fishing line. The advantages of polyester monofilament are numerous: Polyester has a much higher hea t resistence than nylon. Polyester monofilament does not go brittle o ver time. Polyester monofilament does not discolor...

About a month ago I got a new iron. I had been researching for two weeks and found The One. Brought it home and fell in love with it. It's one of those irons that heats up in 30 seconds and it even beeps to tell you when it needs to be cleaned. I was like WOW! Love it! Last week I had to send my new baby back because it was having some problems. It kept beeping at me and telling me every two hours that it needed to be cleaned. Now, if it really was a baby, I could understand it needing to be cleaned that often. So last week I had to cut the cord off my baby (literally, they only needed the plug end) and send it back, but I could not bring myself to cut the cord so I had my man do it. Great news is my baby is coming back to me on Friday. Woot! I was telling my BH (Better Half) that we needed some new pictures of our nephews and was told that I should send out an e-mail asking for more, but guess what, I did not need to. When my BH looked in his mail box he found a pi...

I read this morning about a longarm quilt blogger who is offering a chance to have one of your quilt tops professional quilted by her, just for guessing in her contest. So go to Jackie's blog and check it out!

It's been a few days since I have updated this. I get home from work and all I want to do is eat and watch t.v. Not doing much of anything else. Thank God for having a job to where I can sew. My manager from work is at the International Husqvarna Viking Convention waiting for the new top of the line se wing and embroidery machine to be unveiled direct from San Antonio, Texas. On Sunday Jane 15, here will be a LIVE web cast unveiling at 5:15 pm ct. To watch this web cast click here and join over 20,000 other people as we get to see this new machine for the first time. I have the alarm on my phone set so I do not forget. Please no phone calls between 5 and 6. While the manager is away I get to play "boss". To me it is just more work for no more pay. Plus it can be a pain in the ass at times. O.k. it is time for an update on the pinwheel quilt for my friend. I have all t he half square triangle sewn into pairs and all the teal ones into pinwheels. I just have to...

My father loves to enter a contest. Anyone he can get his hands on he will enter. He did win $1,000 last year from one. Today when I was over he got to talking about some of his contests and told me he can not enter some because he needs a computer. With that sai d he hands me a piece of pap er with a web site t o win a new Toyota Tundra Truck. He said if you win and don't want it you c an always sell it (with the price of g as I just m ight). I guess when you get old and have nothing else to do, but wa tch court programs on T.V. you pass the time with a few contests. I am not one to enter contests because I do not want my name on some snail or e-mail list and this time will be no exception. I get way to much mail now. No thank you!

and I should have said, but I won't do that. I went out in the monsoon we are having to get my partner a bag of Dor itos. God I must love him. The rain was coming down sideways in she e ts and the wind just abo ut took my umbrella more than a few times. Maybe I should g et one of these for the nex t time tha t happens . Don't you just love the best of list that you can find on the 'net like 100 best songs of the past 25 years ? I found this list and then had to make sure I had all the songs so I could make my own list. There are some other great lists on there as well, and this was a nice find. I got a great start on the pinwheel quilt I am making for my friend. I got 96 of the 244 half square triangles done. Only 144 more to go. Guess I had better get back to it. Until next time

Thought I would jump on the band wagon of blogging. I've been working on a quilt for a friend in St. Loui s. I hav e the fabric all picked out and hope to get a great start on it tomorrow. I am planning on using t he Green Pinwheels pattern. Also, I have another quilt I need to get the borders on and sent off to the quilters. I will post a picture of it once I have the borders on. Please post and let me know what you think of my fabric choice for the pinwheel quilt.