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How is everyone doing this week? What quilting projects are in the works right now?

Hope to see everyone posting in this forum soon!

Tammy

This week has been busy for me. I finished up a watercolor log cabin wall hanging over the weekend, along with a small dog quilt. That is, the quilt was for a dog. I'll be posting pictures of those soon, but first I have to mail them to the recipients. There's a little quilt for the cat, too. Sydney and Emma both made a set of four-patch blocks for a swap, and I made a set of 3" nine-patches for a swap of mine. I started making blocks for a charity quilt, but it's been so hot that I haven't done much on it yet. I just started it last night. I'm strip-piecing a log cabin quilt, and we'll see if I end up having enough fabric. I'm using some that was donated to our group. Oh, and I made a very small wall hanging for Todd's cubicle. It's a landscape quilt of a waterfall-very quick and easy. I was pleased with how it came out. I'll be starting my Lord of the Rings blocks soon. I thought I was going to start them this week, but I need some metallic gold fabric to start the pattern I made for Sting (a dagger, for those who are uninitiated). I tried to find something to make it glow in the dark blue, but everything glows green or orange. Oh, well! I plan on devoting a large portion of web space to the fifty blocks that are being made for this swap, so you can all see what a fantastic job that is being done.

Wow! Laura you have been busy especially since you're in the process of moving into your new home, homeschoolling, etc. I haven't done much of quilting since January.

I still haven't finished Greg's quilt, but I do have all the rows sewed (except for one, waiting for some fabric from my MIL). I have about three - five quilts in my head that I will be doing. I just need to buy the patterns and such. Three of them are for friends that live out of state.

Another one is a T-shirt/Sweatshirt quilt. My plan is to use the T-shirts as the front and the Sweatshirts as the back. I don't think I'm going to put batting in between and will just tie it together...what do you all think? I figured the sweatshirts will be heavy enough.

Then the other one in my head is just one I need to begin to start using the fabric in my stash! But all of these probably won't get started until around mid-Summer or so.

We're still painting my house. Monday we finish the stairwell and hallway. Then we'll start work on my bedroom and the bonus room. So...that's my creative life in a nutshell!

Wow! This was long...

Good to hear from you guys! Laura, it sounds like you have been busy with quilting!

Kathy - I wonder how that t-shirt/sweatshirt quilt would be made up like a shaggy quilt? It might be hard to sew the "X" if there is printing on the t-shirts though. Good luck with your painting!

Tammy

Laura - I did some looking around for glow in the dark products and found this:

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You weren't kidding about the first one being pricey. I swear I looked and looked through page after page of thread and didn't see any of that! The second link looks promising. If you see any paint that glows blue, I'd be interested in that, too. Thanks! You may have saved me with that thread. Yay!

Hello, I have just found this forum and I am keen to make friends with like-minded people. I love quilting which I have been doing for about 12 years. Still have lots to learn. We are a bit behind in Australia with quilting products etc. so it good to read what it available elsewhere. We are catching up though!! At the moment I have put my sewing on hold so I can give my sewing room a good clean out. Boring, but necessary!! Hope to talk again soon.

Hi SueM!

Nice to meet you and glad you could join us. Looking forward to getting to know you better!

Hmmm, What if I, depending on the design of the shirts, only sewed the *X* as much as possible? Meaning...the center of the *X* wouldn't always be there, but the arms would. Does that make sense? I'll have to organize all the shirts and see how that would work.

SueM, how's your clean up going?