Looking good :thumbup: Definately a head start for christmas, eh?

Stitchinjoy, that is one cooool quilt!

Oh Stitchinjoy, that is the most lovely quilt. I just love all the colors and the different blocks.

Patches and Pinwheels--great scrappy. Don't you love it using the leaders and enders and have blocks instead of a thread spider!

Sorry, I might be being dim, but what's a thread spider?? :oops:

My question exactly ...

What are leaders and enders?

Scraps used at the beginning and end of a pieced chain.

Thank you all-- that's sweet of you.

When I sew, I keep a stack of squares at the ready. I have them in pairs, a light and a dark one, right sides together.

When I finish up whatever I am sewing, I don't cut off the thread; I put one of the pairs under the machine's foot and sew a little bit of it. Then I cut the thread between that piece and my last piece. This really cuts down on the amount of thread that I waste. When you're sewing triangles it stops the machine from sucking the points into the feed dogs too.

So I have one there when I start sewing (leader) and I leave one there when I stop sewing(ender). And then I make 4patches from them. And when I get a few hundred 4patches, woohoo! Instant quilt!

Wonderful idea. I will start doing that. I need all the help I can get to get more quilts done. That is a great way to get extra quilts for babies. Thanks.