Quilting

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Wow! Very nice. I really like the looks of that quilt... I could be persuaded. :yep I could. (Both my mom and my sister quilt. I'm more of a knitter, myself. FWIW)

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Mary, you too could be a quilting fool! :L I knitt too. In fact when I go to all day meetings I take a "diaper bag." It has a water bottle, snack, my quilting, my knitting and my sketchbook.

With the Dear Jane quilt, I just figured that I will have to make 4 to 5 blocks a week to be able to finish the top in one year.

Nancy

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>>Mary, you too could be a quilting fool!

Oh, how well I know that, Nancy! It's one reason I have resisted thus far!

But talking about having a quilting camping get together (some might say, ''rally''), adds more to the temptation... :r Of course, I'm not sure that's a good thing... as my own Dear Jane might (or most definitely would) take two years, or more! But I really like the looks of it... So I've gotta at least check it out!

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Mary, check out the Dear Jane in the traditional colors. If you do a search on the Internet there are lots of sites with pictures. If I were doing this quilt for myself, I would probably do it in the traditional colors. But, my mom will like this all blue and white one. And it will be a lot of fun to hunt for all the blue material as I travel. (I do a LOT of traveling.)

When I made the black and white quilt from the picture at the beginning of this thread, I hunted for the material for almost two years. It has about 75 different materials in it which is one of the things that I think, makes it the most interesting.

Nancy

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Looks like I might have started something! Good!! I will try to get some pictues of my blocks. I have 23 done, and have been doing it for less then a year. Being so small, they are not fast. And you make things bigger and cut them down alot so that you get things square and neat. Mine are very scrappy, and not authentic reproductions. I don't like all of the reproduction fabrics, (I like more color) so I have anything that I like it in, in a small print of course. I realized when I started that I didnt have very many small prints, and
had to buy more fabric! Bummer!!:banana But I could get away with buying fat quarters for them, which is MORE then enough fabric for most of them. Alot of places had like 12" scraps for sale too, like 50 cents and up. and of course its all about collecting the fabric (the hunt, as they say) then how much. Or maybe not....Hmmm..
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Nancy, have you gotten a chance to play with the cd yet? Do you have EQ5?

Lucie, I think it would be cool to do one in PA. and the Bennington(?) Museum is there too, where the Dear Jane quilt hangs.
Of course Nancy, we could do one in Oregon or on the west coast too. I have friends in Bend that I like to visit every year, and we really like Oregon. So far, we havent been on the coast yet either, just the high desert. Midwest works for me too (obviously)were everyone can travel to meet in the middle.

Mary, I was holding off too. Then Bill wanted to make pot holders for Christmas one year, and that was it! If you havent gotten into it by the time we do this, we wouldn't mind it you hung out and knit with us!

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Hi Deb,

>Nancy, have you gotten a chance to play with the cd yet? Do you >have EQ5?

I played around with the Dear Jane EQ software last night. It's a pretty confusing program (in my opinion). I don't have any other EQ software -- just Bockbase and Sew Precise. I doubt that I will actually design my quilt on the computer -- too time consuming. But I will probably use it to print out patterns.

Gang, we could always plan to camp in Bend or Sisters, OR next year during the week before the big Sisters' Quilt Show. Both towns run week-long quilting classes and bring in big-name quilters. The Sisters' Quilt show is one day only (Saturday) and is an outdoor show. We could do a Fiberglass Gathering and quilt all week!

Nancy