sew cornie

jetnica, I'm sorry for your slip, but thanks for making me laugh. :lol:

Shellia

Wow! If they don't like them, I'll take them both.

smiles

Missed the first post, but count me in. Presently working on UFO"S. Have all the material needed to finish all of them, & promised myself no new ones until theese are done. Glad I found this post as I will need lots of help keeping my promise.

pittsburgpam

Well, I ordered two FQ sets because they were 30% off. It was a good deal, loved the fabric, and I figure that if prices are going up for cotton that I'm only going to buy on good sales.

salmonsweet

Jetnica :lol: :lol: :lol: thank you for this.

"Back to square one" though - no way!!! So we might slip once in a while, so hey. It doesn't nullify what we've done already. All the other purchases we've already allowed to float past each day without grabbing them. Every time we've said "thank you, but no," to all those whinging, bullying fabrics trying to call our names... That all still counts.

To me anyway.

And each time any of us does any of these things, or is gong, "Oops!! a slip..." AND CLIMBS BACK ON, we all grow stronger.

I do think so, anyway.

So, :thumbup: for climbing back on!

salmonsweet

Made a small quilt this week. The Feng Shui system I have been studying calls for a "small square blue carpet" to put in my tiny bedroom this year... I thought I'd make that a quilt.

It's 23'' square and from stash, batting and all. In the washer right now, to get rid of the basting glue and spray.

noveltyjunkie

What does Feng Shui say about quilts, SS? What about all the lines and cuts!!!

salmonsweet

Not sure what other schools say (there are probably as many Feng Shui styles as teachers out there...). In the style I've been studying, a lot of people make their Feng Shui items as art objects, quilts or such. It's such fun to play with quiltmaking using the elements and the colors, shapes and numbers associated with them.

I made a quilt for my four year old DN last year, his lucky element is Earth so I made sure to put some sandy-beige Northcott Stongehenge fabric in...

Squares and earthy colors represent earth, waves and irregular lines and blues and black stand for water, triangles and "fiery" colors for fire; circles and silver, gold, white and grey are metal, long shapes and greens and browns are wood.

You could make a quilt, for instance, combining the lucky elements&colors of the two people who are going to be sleeping under it.

I think a log cabin would tend to be earth (square blocks) and wood (blocks made of long strips)... with the traditional red centre, you'd have a fire in the cabin centre, safely contained in its square of stone (earth). Isn't it amazing!

Can you tell I love this? I could go on and on... :oops: :D

LucyInTheSky

I was doing really well. Nothing new purchased, working on UFOs. Then I had 2 UFOs that needing borders. And I legitimately didn't have border fabric to work on either (most of my fabric is very patterned and I needed plainer). Plus I had gift cards to my LQS from Xmas. Okay, no big deal, I will just go get borders. Which I was good and found my borders, and spent $2 for 3 yards of fabric + a box of pins. But it was enough of a fall off the wagon that I was online later and bought 8 yards (for 2 quilts, at least) of Batman and Superman fabric. So I'm back on the wagon... I'll give myself a B so far for January's moratorium, lol

Julie in NM

Slipped up between Christmas and New years but bought fab on huge discount and using it now. Used my stash to make 3 table runners and a snowman w/h. Now working on tesselating tail cat quilt and using up more fab. Also trying to make patterns from books/mags I've bought. Why did I buy these books? Hmm....