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Posted by Patti on August 28, 2008, 2:25 am
Lovely to see you popping in, Mary.
Sounds like you are sewing up a storm! It'll be such fun to see what
you've been making. Have fun with your little Maggot >g<
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In message
>Hi Guys,
> Back in the Valley to get the SMDGD and take her back up the
>mountain with me tomorrow. I wanted to tell you all that I joined
>the quilt group up in the mountains and will be entering a quilt (the
>Log Cabin quilt I made for my VDMIL) in the show this weekend!!! The
>group is called the PineNeedlers and they even have their very own
>meeting house! It's a nice little building and inside they have 4
>large banquet tables for sitting & sewing, 3 cutting tables with
>cutting mats of all sizes, acrilyc rulers of all shapes and sizes,
>rotary cutters and two ironing boards and multiple irons for the
>members to use! They even have a HUGE bucket of large (2" or so)
>binder clips to use when pin basting quilts!
> I have been working on a quilt for DD made of Egyptian print
>fabrics. The blocks are 12" modified Log Cabins made of 3" strips.
>I'm not sure what the actual name is but the first block is in the
>lower left corner (instead of the center) and the logs build on that.
>I have used a purple fabric printed with the bust of Nefertiti in
>metallic gold & black as that beginning block. From there I have
>alternated Egyptian print fabrics and multi color fabrics in shades of
>purple, turquoise or blue. The blocks are set on point (WHAT WAS I
>thinking???) and the HSTs for around the edges are cut from the
>CleoCATra fabric line that was popular several years ago. I've gotten
>the beast (a 76" x 86" lap quilt -- LOL) about 85% pin basted and then
>ran out of pins (I forgot to bring ANY quilting supplies with me!!).
>I made a stop at Joann's before getting to DD's and will hurry up and
>get the rest of the quilt pin basted ASAP since she gets home in about
>3 hours!
> Once I got the Egyptian quilt so far along, I started strip piecing
>MY autumn quilt -- FINALLY!! I started collecting the fabrics for
>this quilt about 4 or 5 years ago -- LOLOL! I used a bunch of the
>fabrics in the HUG for Little Mike but still had major amounts of
>fabrics left. This one is a type of rail fence block but nothing will
>match up -- it's very scrappy. The blocks are 10" square and made up
>of 5 fabric strips -- the middle one being of CAT print -- of
>course :-). I have everything pieced and the blocks cut and ready to
>be assembled. This will be another HUGE lap quilt (80" square) so
>that there is enough room for me AND the kitties.
> Needless to say, I will post photos once everything is finished AND
>DH gets here with the camera in 3+ weeks. I do hope everyone is doing
>OK -- no way can I read through all the posts using Google Groups!
>I'm hoping to manage another meet & greet with Pati & B'fly but we'll
>have to see how that works out. Miss being able to read the group
>with any sort or regularity but this is better than nothing :-).
>CiaoMeow >^;;^<
>
>PAX, Tia Mary
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Best Regards
pat on the hill
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