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Head on over to Rachel's of P.S. I Quilt and enter today!!!! Let her know Charlie sent ya.

Several of you have asked how did I do the quilting on the Whirlygiggles quilt, and simply put, I chose the serpentine stitch on my machine, put on a walking foot and quilted straight lines ever so far apart both directions. I'm here to tell you if I can't do it with a walking foot then I ain't doing it. I have found that I can do most anything with a walking foot. Most people think you can only do a straight stitch. Well let's just get that out of our heads right here and now. You can do any stitch your machine has with a walking foot. I would suggest you try it out to see how it looks first. Remember that some stitches take longer to stitch out than others. I was doing a stitch on the border of a wall hanging and it took me like 20 mins to go around four sides. I said the hell with this and stopped at one row of stitching. Yes, it would have looked nicer with 3 or more rows, but this guy is not doing it. The wall hanging was just for me and I really did ...

Today we travel back to January of 2009. Where a quilt was given birth. You might remember these? Remember me talking about a quilt called Whirlygiggles or even seen others in blog land. If you don't remember you can view it here . I'll wait as you go look. Insert hold music here. I've got great news I have the binding on my version of the Whirlygiggles quilt. I just love how this quilt turned out. It was going to be a gift for my three year old nephew, but I don't think I can give it up. It just so darn cute! I will have to make him another quilt.

Thread Velvet pillow done on embroidery machine.

I'm sending this out unedited, because my editor is out camping this weekend and I'm staying home to work. This is a follow up post to At a Loss I've had no luck in finding my quilts. Allot of you want to know who she is because you might know of a means of reaching her. At first I was thinking I did not want to run her name in the mud, but now I'm done with her and I want the whole world to know this. What she has done is WRONG . I'm not even sure how she could live with herself know this. Amber Coffey of Coffey House Quilts She lives in the Parkville, MO area or she did. I've sent her E-mail, phone calls, letters and nothing in return. She did pocket dial me from her cell phone the other day, but no one was on the other end. Yes, that did get my hopes up, but turned out to be a big let down. I have sent out an e-mail to two quilt guilds and one quilt shop asking if they might have any information about her. I'm going to try all of the quilt sh...

Not one but two. First: Head over to I'm Just A Guy Who Quilts for your chance to win one of three great gifts. Second: Make life Sweet is giving away a charm park of their Authentic line due in shop in September. This line reminds me of newspaper print.

This is a post I've been putting off for a very long time. I thought that it would work it's way out by now, but it hasn't. This is going to be one of those put your trust in me and everything will be o.k. kind of posts. Let me just get right to the heart of it. I sent two of my quilts out to be quilted by a lady friend of mine. She has been quilting my quilts for about four years now and I just love her work. She does some of the best work I have found here in Kansas City and does not charge me an arm and a leg for it. I just love her to pieces. Well, I used to. The last quilts I give her to finish for me were over seven months ago. It took her longer to do my quilts because she would always work me in where she could. That is how I got my deal. I was o.k. with that. The most I've ever had to wait was three months. I've talked with her a few times and she had an electrical fire and a death in the family that she's had to deal with. I understand a...

I guess I'm just falling behind in everything I'm doing. I have quilts that are half done, 153 bog post to read, dishes that I've let set for three days (that task is now done), house that needs cleaned, books to take back to the library and binding to put on a quilt. How did I let that happen? It seems my list is just getting longer and longer these days. I never feel like doing these items once I get home from work. Perhaps I should get off my lazy ass and get these things done, but it's the lazy days of summer. Pat Sloan blogged about a quilt that the Blackbird girls Alma and Barb are doing and I just love it, but I can't start another project now until I get a few of my own done. Isn't it just so darn cute!! It looks really easy to do if you like half square triangles. Which I do. It's even made with a jelly roll. I have a few of these laying around. I bet you do too. How fun is that? Check out their blog for the directions. I got my co...