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When doing half square triangle (HST) do you find that the corner of the fabric gets caught under your stitch plate?  Start your chain piecing of HST with a  small scrap of fabric and it will keep the edge of the fabric from getting down under your stitch plate.  Make sure to start in the middle of your scrap fabric.  You could also could buy a single hole stitch plate for your machine.  Just remember you can only do straight stitching in the center needle position or you will break your needle.  What do you do to keep the corners of fabric out from under your stitch plate?  Be sure to blog along with us.  We do love to read what you have to say.  Remember it's all about sharing. Thread tangled and making a mess? Ask your florist for the thread nets that come from the flowers. Most florists are happy that someone will use them. Cut them to the size of your spool and have neat thread storage. Until next time,

A few new pictures of the elusive Clyde Frog have surfaced and I wanted to share them with you all. Here he is watching the History Channel, he's very interested in the story of America. Here he is helping us pack for the big move.  He is super excited to have a back yard soon! He loves getting some attention, it doesn't happen to often though!

The Electric Quilt Company Announces Electric Quilt 7 (EQ7): Quilts, Blocks and now PHOTOS! Digital cameras will become a quilter's best friend. EQ7 has dozens of ways to turn everyday photos into quilt ­­art images. Or crop and edit scanned fabrics right in EQ7 in minutes. And that's just the start! New Activation Policy You'll never run out of EQ7 activations! Activation and deactivation is as easy as two clicks of the mouse. Install on as many computers as you like and quickly transfer activations from computer to computer. This new policy gives you complete freedom to manage your own activations — and no dongle to worry about! Easier than ever for new users EQ7 is the most user-friendly full-featured quilting software yet. Complete user manual 22 printable full-color PDF lessons (115 pages) Point-and-read info on each tool – now linked directly to Help topics 10 videos targeted for beginners 67 “How do I?” topics: printable stepped-out instructi...

Have you seen the May 2010 issue of American Quilters Magazine?  Its cover looks like this.  Not seen it yet?  Run out right now and get yourself a copy, but more on that in a moment.  On to the real reason  we are here. I want a sewing table there I have said it.  Not just any table, but this one It's Big Bertha by Arrow.  Yes, I have blogged about her before, but I still want her in my sewing room.  Honey, you will just has to wait.  You are not in my budget right now sweetheart.  In the mean time I will keep dreaming about you and one day you will be mine.  I do have a table for my sewing machine that I love.  It's a 18" x 24" clear plastic table that fits around my machine and I love it.   I have lots of room with it on my machine.  It helps support my fabric so I can get a better stitch.  I have found I have more depth before I reach the needle, this way I can make sure my ...

There was no Machine Friday post last week.  We took a mini vacation from posting, but it will be back this Friday. Some scraps from a top secret project.  Here is a word search for you!  It gives you hints on what I will be doing in the coming months.  Some tell me too many hints.  There are 15 words.  J G D W W T X X V C A R T I C L E E D N U N L M W R I T T E N K Q N G T W Z C V E H Y X G O I K D B Z G L E I L O M V G A X M G W C P H C Z A N G S C R M V S G V D I V W X O R M H T J B K V C A P Q Z O Z V X A W W X A R M E N W P I N Q J F M Q O E B B O V I I W E C D G D S G Q A H U O S T A R S U Z R N M U R B E A E L V L W Q U I L T P O S I U M P C M T C Q U Y P V Z H D J Q O R B E M H I X A H X J C B L T E Y D Q U Q P P S O C F N H I N U U R Z Y M E S D B K W U T V I D K H B B U Y E R K C I W Q E A N B A I L I Z F E O R T R L L Q P S O E R M L R N X X W P A C L R G T P Y E Q G R Y F I S G H K N B Y Q U I L T S L S J I T Q E S R H J ...

Head over to Bradie site and enter to win this great layer cake from Moda  Who's going to win?  Me that is who.  Until next time,

O.k. so I really want to win this one.  I just love their fabrics. Really I do.   Check out Ryan's Blog and you will see what I'm talking about.  Until next time,

Head over to Jaybird Quilts for your chance to win this quilt from Fat Quarter Shop .  Until next time,

Here are a few questions that I have gotten from fellow blog readers regarding their sewing machines. Wendy Finlay How about what to do when the thread breaks and breaks and breaks even though you change the needle, clean out the lint, mess with the tension and you have to finally thrown your hands up in dispair and go to bed at 11:30 p.m. because you've had it with the blankedy-blank thread :) Wendy, To me it sounds like you might have a bad spool of thread.  Sometime thread just breaks no matter what you do.  I would trade it out for another spool and see if that helps.  Thread does get old and brittle.  This is why I would never use old thread in a "good" project that you want to last.  How to tell if thread is old: wooden spool, has a store tag on from years ago, looks old and faded or if you can pull out a strand and it breaks easy, then you know it's old and should not use it.  Greg Bryson The disappointment and pitfalls of not threading y...

Are you a Moda maniac?  Head over to the Moda Bake Shop and see what new project I have cooked up for you this time.   Flights of Nature Until next time, 

Clyde Frog here, the official mascot of Qubee Quilt as I have been dubbed.  I thought I would sneak a post in just so I could show off while Charlie is off quilting on one of his upcoming quilts.  He does not spend much time with me anymore and that means I get the whole couch to myself.   It seems his sewing machine is getting more love than I do these days, but I am o.k. with that.  When he is done I will have myself a new quilt. That Charlie loves to show off his stuff, but what about me?  I need some page time too.   If you want something done you have to do it yourself. I was in the kitchen looking for a snack and to the right of the stove what did I find but a camera.  I was thinking that was an odd spot to leave a camera, but not in this house.  It was right were it should be.  I thought I would play around and take a few pics of myself to share with Charlie's readers since he never has any friends over.  It seems that his fri...

A lady walks in the shop a few days ago bringing her machine with her and she proceeds to tell me that her machine is acting up and not stitching right.  "It will not make a straight seam no matter what I do", she said.  I had her set her machine up and got some fabric for us to sew on.  I asked her if she would show me how it is sewing.  She takes the fabric puts the peddle to the metal and away she went.  One would have thought she was drunk when she was sewing.  Her stitch was all over the place.  I pushed one of the buttons on the machine and had her sew again, but this time around she was able to sew in a nice straight line.  She said "Wow! How did you do that?"  I told her, "I just hit the speed button on your sewing machine to slow it down.  This way no matter how far on the foot peddle you press your machine will not go above a certain speed."  "I never new my machine even had that on it." she said.  I asked her if...