qubee quilts

The 3/50 Project Click on the link above and find out what this is all about. This is a great project!! Please support your local independently owned shops! What independently owned shop would you miss if it were to close? Please post a comment telling me why you would miss this local shop. I will draw one person to randomly win a great quilting related gift. Guess what independently owned shop I would miss and the first person to get it right will also win a quilting related gift. Prize to be drawn January 10th 2010

The holidays are coming to a close and a new year is dawning. What do you have planned for the coming year? For me it's just simple things. I hope to get my quilt room clean, get more quilting done (pieced and quilted) and spend more time with my BH. This January will be five years since I met him and in our life that is a milestone, but more on that in another post. Santa did not bring me a camera for Christmas, but that is o.k. I still have a few gifts coming. With all the snow that we got here in the Midwest on Christmas day and me having to work, I was not able to celebrate with my parents. I hope to get to see them this weekend. The short of it is, I should have a camera in a couple of weeks. Yeah, look for lots of pictures to come. Ha ve you seen the one seam flying geese yet? If not, then head over to the Qu ilt S how.com and check it out. I want to make some geese now, but should I really start a new project? I think I should start/finish the others that I alre...

I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid. I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb: "There is no Santa Claus," she jeered. " Even dummies know that!" My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her world-famous cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true. Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything. She was ready for me. "No Santa Claus!" she snorted. "Ridiculous! Don't believe it. That rumour has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad. Now, put on your coat, and let's go." "Go? Go where, Grandma?" I as...

Who knew that sewing a straight line would be so hard. I am using the stitch guide (the little metal arm) that came with my walking foot (even feed foot) and I still have trouble with straight lines. I'm thinking my problem might be that I am sewing way too fast. I need to slow down. I need to put the sewing machine on a slower speed and that way I can't go any faster, plus that would help me stay on the straight and narrow patch per say. I'm also finding that if I don't have it lined up at a 45 degree angle when I start I also get off course. Next time I get a hair up my butt and want to try some cross hatching I will try the blue painters tape. I could off set the tape just a bit from where I want to stitch and follow it with the edge of the walking foot. This way I have no chance of stitching into the tape. Tape that has been stitched into is very hard to get off ones quilt. I'm looking into a new camera. I'm thinking I might go with the Nikon 12...

I have the Christmas spirit in my heart and mind. I just spent the most amazing Sunday with my BH. We went to brunch and the did some shopping then went and saw Avatar then more shopping and dinner. Avatar is the type of move that is very thought provoking. It was brilliantly filmed and if this is how films will look in the future then I'm all for it. You must see this in 3D. The 3D felt incredibly natural and not too showy as it has on other films. I got so wrapped up in this film. I want to go and see it again, but this time in 3D IMAX. The table runner is done. Just need to put some binding on it. Pictures to follow later once I have a camera. I did cross hatching for the quilting. How does one keep their lines straight? I found it very hard. I did draw my lines on, but it was still hard to follow. There has to be another way. Maybe cross hatching is not for me. I know next time I will do a serpentine line and it will not matter if the line is straight. I think...

Busy, busy, busy. Not much time for quilting with the Christmas in full swing. The tree is up and decorated, holiday party this Friday, shopping in full swing (not done yet), candy made and cookies baked, and sewing machine are flying out the door. I am making a super cute quick and easy table runner just so I can feel like I'm getting something done. Oh yeah, my camera stopped working and need a new one. Maybe Santa will being me one.