1.) Be careful what you buy at low prices off EBay. Having read how great the #37 quilting foot is for my Bernina 830, I went and got one at a cheep price off EPay. It gets here, looks OK, says '37' on the little white part of the shank... Well, it's not 1/4 inch to both sides, more like 3/16 and 5 1/6 with the needle centered. Move the needle, it's still off. Well look at it closer. Real Bernina feet have the number cast into the foot at the top, not printed on the shank. Cheep knockoff that won't sit centered. 25 bucks lost. And I still have to get the real thing at my FLQS... at 35 bucks.

2.) Got two blocks done on my Flying Geese Quilt. With the method I am using, you start with a rectangle and two squares, sewing them together on the bias, then trimming the extra triangles off. Works well, my points are almost perfect. As I finished each Goose, I unpinned the remainder triangles and piled them up. Duh! Leave the suckers pinned and sew your 1/4 inch line down the bias. HST already lined up and conveniently in the size I need for some border motif.

3.) Two sewing machine operation... I got my old (new to me) Elna Super back from the shop. Sews like a dream. Or more like a 1964 Ford pickup (but that is good). Sew the bias lines with that machine, have the Bernina setup for 1/4 seam sewing. Niiiice. I Like It!.

tim in san jose (one block at a time)

all I learned this weekend after leaving the quilt store was ...don't do 65 in a 45.. got a pretty little green paper to remind me not to "hurry home" to get started :oops:

Oh Kathy - bless your pea-pickin heart!

Been there done that; I had almost the same problem with ebay, I bought a walking foot for my old singer and it sure didnt fit. when I was trying to put it on it fell apart in my hand. so I went to sears and bought one for my Kenmore. the first was 10 , second 24 dollars. The motto is if it looks like a turkey and squwaks like a turkey it probably is. To expensive to send it back, just don't buy it if you can't see it. sorry you had to go through it.

I have been waiting on last weekend to get here for a year, Mid Atlantic Quilt Show... I went with my husband Sat., he is in the home healthcare business, He needed to pick up some equiptment, so I decided to get out and see some of the country, thinking I would surely see a new quilt store on the way, which I did, and made him turn around... We had a great day, stopped at a little place and got lunch, drove 1 1/2 hours home and spent the rest of the weekend praying to the porcelin gods. I had planned on spending all day Sunday at the Quilt Show but it didn't work that way, maybe next year!!! I will never eat Pork again!!!!Never, Never Never!!!

Sounds like you should have prayed to the porcine gods. Sorry you missed something that you looked forward to all year. Usually I miss that something because.. I forget. Duh.

tim in san jose

I learned that JoAnn's closes at 6:00 on Sunday...I found that out at 7:00. It's all good, I made it to Dairy Queen for a sympathy Moolatte before they closed. :roll:

"Sorry you missed something that you looked forward to all year. Usually I miss that something because.. I forget. Duh.

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Oh, yeah! The thing I miss most is my memory...I have to write notes, then I forget where I put the notes or forget to read them. sighhhh

:evil:

Sumtin I lerned, but not this weekend.....
Many years ago, my husband and I were bickering. His mother came in and said "Don't get your tit in a wringer." Not being from Oklahoma, I thought she meant "Don't get your buns in an uproar" and I told her I wasn't really mad. She then said "It hurts like heck!" Guess what she had done... :cry: :D

ROFLMAO well when I was a wee one I got my arm in one and that was bad enough...........

I LOVE this place!!!


ROFLMBO

I don't think it was pork. My girlfriend and I went and we are both sick--she's worse than me, at home in bed. But I am trying to stick it out--no paid sick leave and don't want to give up vac pay to be sick. We didn't eat anything at the show--just coffee and a muffin, so the germs were in the air. Batiks ar really HOT this year! Every other quilt that I saw ther had been done using batiks--soooo pretty! Hope you get better soon. :D

what is ROFLMBO somebody please educate me

Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Butt Off.

tim in san jose (see, I did learn something in engineering school)

Duh! A little too late in the project I realized you don't cut the triangles off and then sew down the bias! You sew the first line (for the Geese) then you sew a parallel line 1/2 inch away. Cut the point off then halfway between the sewn lines. You have your HST DONE.

Idjit.

tim (wastin time on a Friday afternoon) in san jose

Norah
It's not funny, but I laughed till I turned blue, Just the whole scene and thought of her (True comment at the right time).

oh , all right all though i'm sure if i would have ask my 9 yr old he would have told me . i just wasn't sure if that was something i wanted to ask him.thanks for educating me. tia sarah

All Hail The Flying Geese Lord!!! He rains supreme... Finally!! :lol:

AH, but we can be trained... even Tim. :lol:

Norah, you are hilarious! I too am ROFLMBO!

if he knows what roflmAo stands for, tell him to go stand in the corner. :wink:

man you guys crack me up....I needed a lifter...it's bad a nasty few days. Life caught up with me and I haven't been able to start new project yet. I know I won't be able to this week, so now I have to wait until the following week.....wait a sec...my soldier boy is coming home that week so it'll be the 1st before I can start anything...rrrrgggg. Bad mood has returned...I'll just reread this thread...I'm sure it'll lift me up again!!

Thing I learned this week....

When ironing, after you unplug the iron and walk away, make sure it doesn't fall over onto meltable items like CARPET!!! I got most of it wiped off, but I'm scared to use the iron again. There's stuff inside the holes, but just 1 or 2 of them. Do you guys think I should go buy another one?? Perhaps use this one when I use magic sizing. I don't know. What do you think?

Ok go read a quilt book and close your eyes and stroke some fabric, sooo nice, have a drink too. :wink:

I gunked up my iron with iron on interfacing, and my iron has teflon soleplate so it can't be scrubbed. I tried the manufacturers directions to clean it, and it didn't work.

I bought Sole Plate Cleaner at WalMart, and used it twice - still not clean. I ended up making little scrapes on the iron using the edge of a knife. I guess I could have tried GOO GONE, but I ran out of patience.

It beat having to buy a new iron, but I was really tempted to get a new one if I couldn't get the black goo off it.

Thangs I learned...

When it starts getting dark, it is time to stop weeding the garden... Those little green snakes look just like crab grass in the dusk lighting!!!! :shock:

carla

OH, I would still be screamin, I can't handle snakes or spiders, especially snakes.

I am still not sure which of us had the more massive heart attack- me or the snake... We were both pretty shocked when I grabbed it.

Carla

I guess you would call that a KODAK moment, My G-sons would of arm wrestled you for it,LOL

I'd have given it up freely!!! Actually it flew one way as I ran the other!! :lol: