What do you do with an ugly quilt in progress?

Posted by Ruby on November 5, 2009, 7:22 pm

Patti wrote:
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I always thought quilting was very difficult so never thought of even
trying it.
2 years ago I saw a crazy quilt class advertised at my local fabric
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quilt courses since and am addicted. Recently finished piecing and
layering a stack and wack fan quilt. Also finished a tie down quilt
which I am quite happy with. Took a free motion machine quilting course
on Monday so am planning on quilting the fan quilt using stripling. I
have pieced 4 quilts, but paid to have the first 3 quilted. Decided if I
was going to continue I had better learn the quilting part.

I wish I had started younger as I am 62. A grand mother of 2 and soon,
any day, 3rd. They live in Hawaii and I am in Nova Scotia Canada.
Ruby

Posted by Sunny on November 5, 2009, 7:31 pm

This quilt is lovely. If you can't think of what to do with it, bundle
it up and send it to me. A few strips of that dark green would work
fine and I've got just the thing for an inner border. I know any
number of people who would love to open a box and find that quilt
inside. If you want to see ugly, I can scan in some fabrics I've
"acquired" over the past few years and then we will have the baseline
for true ugly and all things will have to be rated in comparison to
that ugly in the future. Your quilt doesn't even come near the scale.
I like it.

sunny

Posted by Sunny on November 5, 2009, 7:34 pm

Ruby, it's nice to meet you. It seems the path to true love is so
similar for most of us. First, a class on a whim, then a turn through
the fabric shop, buy a little fabric, see a little more fabric, the
books, oh my the books! And before you know it, we're hooked. <Big
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course, we will have to see pics of your stack and whack fan quilt.
Welcome to the group!

Welcoming hug,
Sunny

Posted by Ruby on November 6, 2009, 10:20 am

Sunny wrote:
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Thank you for the warm welcome. Is there a place where the group posts
photos??
ruby

Posted by Patti on November 6, 2009, 10:53 am

We tend to use various sites for photo-sharing, individually (there
isn't a group site as such). There is an RCTQ site which contains the
links to many of our individual sites; but you will learn that I am
absolutely terrible at remembering links or where to find them!
I use Flickr - and so do several others. You can do it free, or pay a
little to have unlimited space. If I can get it set up, so can anyone I
would think.
Others use Webshots - that used to be the most popular, but now it has
intrusive ads, so some are moving photos to other places. If you Google
for free photo-sharing sites, you should get a lot of 'hits'. Just
choose the one that seems to suit you best. The tell us the link in a
post on here - you can keep the link to your site with your signature if
you would like to.
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Best Regards
pat on the hill

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