Hey it was your turn for the brain freeze! Mine was the night before. Lol!

I just wanted to say Thanks, again....I LOVE THIS BOARD AND THE PEOPLE ON IT.

Just wanted to thank you didi for introducing me to this block! Just made one out of batiks and except for my choice of fabrics for one of the colors (not enough contrast with the strip next to it) I love how it came out. Going to try it again with a different purple.

Here's a picture of the one I just did.

WoW!!! I love the colors....haven't started mine yet...I'm doing a lap quilt for my little sister. was it easy to match the seams?? Yours looks good.

It went together amazingly easily. Since I've been sewing a good bit in the past few months I think my seams are getting more consistent so things work out better than they used to.

I know for awhile I had gotten very lazy in my hurry to get costumes made on a deadline and wasn't paying much attention to precision so when I started quilting my first few things were anything but accurate.

mom-6, how do you sew then do quilting, its so different...i haven't sewn in a long while, except sewing up tears in seams. LOL

When I make a quilt without using a pattern and I need to know how much to use, I LOVE my all in one reference book (published a number of years ago by Alex Anderson, Harriet Hargrave et al). There are charts that will give yardages needed for squares, rectangles, etc.

What is the name of the book?

Didi - I've been making clothes since I was a teenager. Sat on my mom's lap as a tiny wee one while she hemmed cup towels. Made lots of my family's clothes when the kids were younger. Even matching leisure suits for DH and the boys at one point and matching western shirts a year or so later. Made all their costumes for everything once they were in school, then when we got interested in Renfaires, even more costumes. Now I'm mostly doing quilting. Although DD has requested that I think about making a friend a kilt before TRF in Oct. Have also been hemming draping for our booths at faire. And I wonder why I don't get as much done on any of it as I want to!!!