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12-04-2007, 03:56 PM

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Flying_V_Goddess

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Join Date: Mar 2007

Location: Wisconsin

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Originally Posted by PuffinGin

I'll bet he'll love it. My husband loves Buffalo plaid wood jackets and flannel shirts.

Where in Wisconsin are you? I'm in Duluth, MN. We got 12 inches of snow yesterday and last night. Heavy and rather slippery stuff. I'm glad it's done now because my DH is got tickets for a holiday tour of 8 B&Bs in town for this afternoon.

I'm in Black River Falls, WI. We got snow fall followed by freezing rain on Saturday. Almost thought Nick wasn't going to be able to come up (the weather in Rochester was about the same here), but thankfully the weather held up and the roads weren't too bad the next day. Besides having a wonderful two days while he was up, I got the stuff for the quilt and got my Christmas shopping done. :-)

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Originally Posted by mpeters1200

Madame Zelda....

My first two quilts ever I quilted in the ditch and used extra high loft batting. What a chore that was!!! I'm hoping to thwart your plans before you drive yourself crazy. If the quilt is for a little person, I would forgo the quilting altogether and tie tack it with worsted weight yarn. If you cut the spare yarn to 1/4 " of the knot and run your hand over it it will fuzz out and the little one won't be able to chew it off. It's much more durable for a child's quilt to be tacked as it will be laundered often and you don't want your pretty stitches to come out. I wouldn't ever machine quilt using high loft batting....Just tooo thick.

JMO

Melissa

You're talking to someone who decided that the second quilt she was going to make was going to be made out of denim. Besides, I already got the stuff for it and I can't just go out and get different things for it just because what I already have may be difficult to work with (I wasted money on some things with Nick's quilt that I wish I hadn't...I don't want to go that route again.) And hey...I like a good challenge. How will I learn new quilting things if I play it safe?

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