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11-20-2009, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by brendadawg

How about a "quilting party" with all your friends -- fun and food and quilting together. What fun!!

None of my friends quilt, unfortunately :( I'm 24, so most of my friends are at the tail end of the go out and great drunk every night college stage :roll: :roll: . I missed that stage all together, thankfully, and jumped to the make quilts for my grandkids phase (which is an issue since I'm not even married yet (and with no kids)), but people in my life have kids, so it all works. I am trying to get the boyfriend interested in quilting. He likes using the rotary cutter, so I'll often be gracious and let *cough* him cut up stuff for me :lol:

11-20-2009, 08:52 AM

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and good luck selling the house. What's the market like in your area?

Thankfully it is very good. I'm in cookie cutter housing (ya know, the new ones, that all look the same) and it's a great area, very quick sale turnover. I had 3 houses up the street from me for sale last month, all sold. We priced reasonably, house has a lot of upgrades, so it will go well (power of positive thinking :D).

11-20-2009, 08:55 AM

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Sounds like a good plan--start with the small stuff and work your way up. I always get bogged down when I get to the part where the stuff has to actually be quilted. Doing it by hand takes forever, and I just don't have the money to send everything out. My machine quilting skills are pretty limited, so they just sit there until I get motivated to do something about them (that's about one a year!)

Same issue. The way I solved it was to machine quilt 4 quilts in a short period of time. You definitely see improvement. And just remember, any "mistakes" you made, you meant to do it that way, you like the look, etc :D

11-20-2009, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Needles in SW OR

Do the most dreaded one first and the others will seem like a piece of cake.

There is actually one UFO that is a cake and presents table runner........

11-20-2009, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Dancing Needle

I'm with you....2010 FINISH IT! I'm REALLY going to try to get some of my UFO's completed. I'm sure my DH is looking down the hall to my sewing room and wondering why all that fabric is going in, but not much is coming out! :shock: :?: Well, I guess if I'm going to keep him from complaining about my addiction, I'd better start producing something useable (I say as I'm looking at a quilting magazine and pulling from my stash for another project).

Make a quilt for your DH or MIL and that will buy you years of credit. :twisted: It may be sneaky and underhanded, but we do what we must do to hide our fabric addiction. 8)

11-20-2009, 11:32 AM

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I don't think I dare make any promises for at least the first part of the new year. I booked my hand surgery for Jan. 6. Guess my goal will be to see how many books I can read!!!! LOL I already have several quilts planned, so I dont' think I want to load my plate with any more planning 'til I am able to get back to sewing again. And then I get to start all over with other hand!!! :(

I'm with you. I just had my shoulder done 2 weeks ago, my right, and I'm right handed. I am now having an infection show up :cry: :cry: :cry: I want so bad to be able to finish up some of my projects!!!!

11-20-2009, 12:11 PM

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Jim's Gem..... I have had both shoulders done too...one of them twice!!! (I slipped on a patch of ice, 10 days post 1st surgery and undid what was fixed, as well as made it worse. :( ) Give yourself time, and you will never know they were done!!! (The simplest therapy I found to help with getting my range of motion back, was a set of pulleys that went over a door. Do you have some of those?)
Hope your recovery time goes well.

Patti

11-20-2009, 12:53 PM

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None of my friends quilt, unfortunately :( I'm 24, so most of my friends are at the tail end of the go out and great drunk every night college stage

That might make for an interesting quilting party. Just don't give them the rotary cutter. lol (Gosh, I remember those days. Glad they are mostly over)

11-21-2009, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by LucyInTheSky

None of my friends quilt, unfortunately :( I'm 24, so most of my friends are at the tail end of the go out and great drunk every night college stage

That might make for an interesting quilting party. Just don't give them the rotary cutter. lol (Gosh, I remember those days. Glad they are mostly over)

Heh heh heh heh.

11-21-2009, 01:52 PM

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I also decided to go through my stash this week and I have also made the resolution not to buy a single thing in 2010!!! I am to finish all the things I have purchased first... Hence I visited some online stores and I purchased 4 more yards of fabric to finsh one project and 3 more yards to finish another, and I decided to use that pattern I bought last month by purchasing the fabric for it... In my defense, the AU$ is good with the US$ and I am saving literally $100 by buying from the states LOL